TEHRAN (FNA)- The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in cooperation with the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) liberated a number of villages and several farms in their operations in Raqqa province in Northeastern Syria on Thursday.
The SDF and (...)
The photographer Abbas's images of the Iranian revolution have been described as “the memory of the event.”[1] I certainly remember them. Or I remember the event. I remember anyway my parents deciding that we had seen enough of these images on the (...)
ANKARA, Turkey: Neslisah Osmanoglu, an Ottoman princess who married an Egyptian prince and was twice forced into exile when both royal households were abolished, has died. She was 91.
Neslisah Sultan, or Princess Neslisah, died in Istanbul on (...)
MELBOURNE: The Western Pacific is currently facing a difficult problem: how to accommodate China's rising aspirations in a region where the United States has held primacy since the Cold War's end. Is the US determined to maintain dominance in the (...)
ERCIS, Turkey: A 13-year-old boy, trapped for five days inside fallen debris, used a rock in a desperate attempt to dig a hole and free himself from a building that collapsed in a massive earthquake that struck eastern Turkey, his uncle said (...)
ERCIS, Turkey — Turkey's interior minister says the death toll in a 7.2-magnitude earthquake has reached some 270.
Interior Minister Idris Naim Sahin tells Associated Press television on Monday that more 1,000 others were injured in the temblor (...)
ANKARA: Turkish soldiers, air force bombers and helicopter gunships reportedly launched an incursion into Iraq on Wednesday, hours after Kurdish rebels killed 26 soldiers and wounded 22 others in multiple attacks along the border.
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ANKARA, Turkey: Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan stepped up his belligerent rhetoric against Israel, saying that the country's warships will escort Turkish Gaza-bound aid ships in the future to prevent a repeat of last year's Israeli raid on a (...)
SYDNEY: Months after the devastating March 11 earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, the ongoing nuclear disaster at Fukushima compounds the humanitarian tragedy and impedes recovery. The damaged reactors and spent-fuel ponds contain around ten times as (...)
ANKARA, Turkey: Turkey's foreign minister on Thursday called for greater cooperation from Iraqi Kurds in combating rebels who stream across the border.
Ahmet Davutoglu said Turkey was aiming to achieve "total economic integration" with the (...)
ANKARA: Turkish legislators opened debate Wednesday on one of their secular but predominantly Muslim country s most fiery issues: whether to allow female students to enter university campuses wearing Islamic head scarves.
Parliament was to hold a (...)
