The five permanent members of the Security Council plus Egypt, the UAE, Italy, Turkey, Algeria and Tunisia met in Berlin Wednesday in the framework of preparations for the international conference on Libya that UN Special Envoy Ghassan Salamé called (...)
Average occupancy rates in Egypt's Red Sea hotels recorded 75 percent in 2019, a senior official in the Tourism Ministry said on Monday, as the country moves to boost the sector vital for foreign currency revenues.
President Abdel Fattah al-Assi, (...)
Turkey's defence ministry said on Tuesday Kurdish YPG militia had killed three people and wounded eight in a missile attack on a school in the Tel Abyad region of northern Syria which they were meant to have withdrawn from under a ceasefire (...)
Russia said on Tuesday it was bewildered by a Turkish pledge to conduct a new military operation in northern Syria if the area was not cleared of people Ankara calls terrorists, warning that any such move would damage efforts to stabilise the (...)
The United States on Friday sent a letter to Egypt's government warning of possible sanctions over Cairo's decision to move forward with plans to buy Russian jets, an official familiar with the decision told Bloomberg.
According to the person, the (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday pushed Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan to walk away from the purchase of a Russian missile defense system, calling it a "very serious challenge" to bilateral ties, even though he described a meeting between (...)
Syrian government forces started deploying Thursday in areas close to the Turkish border in the country's northeast as part of an agreement reached between Russia and Turkey, state media reported.
News agency SANA said troops were deploying between (...)
There has hardly been any positive news coming out of Iraq in nearly four decades and after the bloody eight-year war with Iran (1980-1988) that left millions of Iraqis killed, injured or missing in one of the bloodiest and longest wars of the 20th (...)
Eight people were killed when a bomb exploded on Sunday in an area of northeast Syria controlled by Turkish troops and their Syrian rebel allies, Turkey's defence ministry and local emergency workers said.
The ministry said the bombing, which it (...)
Russia has drawn up retaliatory measures in case the United States leaves the Open Skies treaty, a pact which allows both countries to conduct surveillance flights over each other's territory, the RIA news agency reported late on Wednesday.
The (...)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday the United States was not fulfilling its pledge to remove a Kurdish militia from a Syrian border region and he will raise the issue when he meets President Donald Trump next week.
A month ago, Turkey (...)
Douglas Costa scored the winning goal in the 93rd minute to send Juventus through to the Champions League knockout stages with a 2-1 win over Lokomotiv Moscow on Wednesday.
The Russian club leveled after Juventus took an early lead and looked headed (...)
After a long series of meetings in Astana, Sochi and elsewhere, the Syrian Committee in charge of drafting a new constitution began its work in Geneva this week, with 150 members equally divided between the regime led by Syrian President Bashar (...)
The incoming leader of the World Anti-Doping Agency asked for more money. The International Olympic Committee said ''Yes.''
IOC president Thomas Bach pledged $10 million to fight doping in sports, half of which would go toward storing samples from (...)
All times CLT (GMT+2)
Tuesday 5 November
Group E
22:00 Liverpool vs Genk
22:00 Napoli vs Salzburg
Group F
19:55 Barcelona vs Slavia Prague
22:00 Dortmund vs Inter
Group G
19:55 Zenit St. Peterburg vs RB Leipzig
22:00 Lyon vs Benfica
Group H
22:00 (...)
Turkey condemned a decision by the U.S. House of Representatives to recognize the mass killings of Armenians by the Ottoman Empire as genocide, saying on Wednesday it would damage the "critical" relationship between the NATO allies.
Armenia praised (...)
Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday that Hungary has vetoed a joint NATO declaration on Ukraine as it did not contain a reference to its neighbour's obligation to fully respect the rights of ethnic Hungarians living (...)
Turkey has information that the Kurdish YPG militia has not completed its withdrawal to 30 km (18.64 miles) from the Turkish border in northeast Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, despite assurances from Russia that they had left.
He (...)
Russia and Turkey signed a memorandum of understanding in Sochi on 22 October whereby the leaders of both countries agreed to suspend Turkey's military operations in northern Syria to create a safe zone at a depth of 32 kilometres inside Syria. (...)
Syrian Kurdish fighters completed their withdrawal from a strip of land on the Syrian-Turkish border ahead of a Tuesday evening deadline agreed between Moscow and Ankara, Russia's defence minister said.
A senior aide to Turkey's President Tayyip (...)
SANA reported on Sunday clashes between the Syrian army and Turkish forces near to Ras al-Ain, a town in northern Syria on the Turkish border.
Turkey did not immediately confirm the clashes. Separately, the defense ministry in Ankara said one member (...)
An Afghan politician confirms that U.S. peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is in Afghanistan's capital for his first visit since talks between the U.S. and Taliban collapsed last month.
Sayed Hamid Gailani, leader of the National Islamic Front of (...)
Russian national Maria Butina, who was jailed in the United States in April after admitting to working as a Russian agent, arrived in Moscow on Saturday, greeted by her father and Russian journalists who handed her flowers.
"Russians never (...)
Russia's defence ministry on Saturday attacked U.S. plans to maintain and boost the American military presence in eastern Syria as "international state banditry" motivated by a desire to protect oil smugglers and not by real security concerns.
U.S. (...)
Russia has sent hundreds of additional troops to Syria to help patrol the country's Turkey-Syria border after a deal between Moscow and Ankara, the Russian Defense Ministry said Friday.
The ministry said about 300 military police have arrived in (...)
