Turkish President Erdoğan has once again harshly criticized the United States for providing arms to the Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG), declaring the move to be a violation of the NATO treaty. “We will [ More … ]
Human Rights Watch says Emirates sending high-profile prisoners to Eritrea, and accuses their Yemen militia allies of torture The United Arab Emirates runs at least two secret prisons in Yemen and “disappears” high-profile inmates abroad [ More … ]
U.S. Chargé d’Affaires, Steven Koutsis Wednesday reiterated the support of his country for a stable Sudan, adding that the African Union roadmap remains the only way for a peaceful solution. Koutsis made his remarks at [ More … ]
The United States said it hopes a reported list of demands prepared by an anti-Qatar alliance would be “reasonable and actionable”, amid an ongoing blockade of the small emirate. The United States said it hopes [ More … ]
A 17-year-old American-Muslim girl with Egyptian origins was murdered on Monday after being beaten, and kidnapped in front of a mosque in Virginia. An Egyptian foreign ministry statement said Tuesday that the Egyptian embassy in [ More … ]
The US on Tuesday bluntly announced it was ‘mystified’ that Saudi Arabia and Gulf allies have failed to justify their blockade of Qatar, urging for a resolution to the crisis. The United States on Tuesday [ More … ]
Qatar Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani said on Monday that he plans to travel to the United States next week to discuss the impact of a rift with Gulf Arab states on its [ More … ]
BY: İLNUR ÇEVIK* They did not even wait until they captured the northern Syrian city of Raqqa from Daesh to turn on Turkey and Turkish interests in Syria… The Americans have been telling us tales that [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* Iran is sending ballistic missiles from country to country for the first time. It is hitting a target in Syria which it claims to be responsible for the Tehran attack- much like [ More … ]
The United States has welcomed a tripartite agreement on the voluntary return of Sudanese refugees in Chad. Sudan, Chad and the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) signed on 31 May two separate tripartite agreements on the [ More … ]
The US shot down a Syrian warplane it claims was attacking its SDF allies on Sunday, however Damascus maintains the jet was being used in an operation against IS militants. A United States fighter jet [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia and Israel are in talks to establish economic ties, a dramatic move that would put the Jewish state on a path to normal relations with the bastion of Sunni Islam and guardian of [ More … ]
BY: İbrahim Karagül* – Who made Sisi and Kılıçdaroğlu say, ‘Your turn will also come, Turkey’? First say it is supporting terrorism, then they suppress it, and then, apply sanctions, push it into a corner [ More … ]
U.S. officials are supportive for the permanent revocation of the economic sanctions on Sudan, says Bloomberg, a business and market news agency, in a report released on Thursday. In line with a five-track engagement over [ More … ]
BY: Merve Şebnem Oruç* The U.S.-led coalition hit the Iran-backed regime forces three times in the last month near Tanf in Syria’s southeast. The first of the attacks took place on May 18, the day [ More … ]
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