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PARIS (AA) – British Prime Minister David Cameron and French President Francois Hollande on Monday agreed to step up the fight against Daesh in Syria. France would “intensify” airstrikes against the group and “choose targets that will do the most damage possible to this terrorist army”, Hollande said during a joint news conference in Paris. […]

24th Nov 2015

Iran calls for energy cooperation at Gas Cooperation Forum

ANKARA (AA) – Iran called for closer cooperation between energy exporting countries to maintain market stability on Monday, local media said. “It is necessary for countries that produce and export energy to coordinate policies for the sake of stability and balance of the market,” President Hassan Rouhani said at the Gas Exporting Countries Forum, according to the Tasnim News […]

23rd Nov 2015

Turkey: Refugee girl’s body washed up on western coast

MUGLA, (AA) – A young girl’s body was among those washed up on Turkey’s western coast on Sunday in a chilling reminder of the death of three-year-old Aylan Kurdi. In an echo of the boat disaster that shocked the world in September, drowned refugees’ corpses were carried to the coastline near the resort city of […]

19th Nov 2015

Yemen conflict death toll hits 5,700

NEW YORK (AA): Approximately 5,700 victims have been killed in Yemen since Saudi-led bombing began in mid-March, including 830 women and children, the United Nations said Wednesday. The UN’s humanitarian coordinator in Yemen, Johannes van der Klaauw, told reporters that Yemen has been “grappling with a breakdown of essential services and forced displacement,” with nearly 21.2 million […]

17th Nov 2015

UN: Britain set to draft UN resolution on Syria cease-fire

NEW YORK (AA): The U.K. will immediately draft a Security Council resolution on a cease-fire in Syria envisaged in talks held in Vienna, Britain’s UN deputy ambassador said Monday. “We are very clear that we are going to take action immediately now to draw up a Security Council resolution on the cease-fire,” said Peter Wilson, who did not give […]

16th Nov 2015

Afghanistan: US drone strike kills 12 people in E Afghanistan

KABUL, (AA): At least 12 militants, including nine foreign nationals, were killed in a U.S. drone strike in Afghanistan’s eastern Nangarhar province, Afghan officials said Sunday. A spokesman for Provincial Governor Ahmad Zai Abdulzai told Anadolu Agency that the drone had targeted a militant concentration in Nangarhar’s Khogiani district on Saturday night, killing a dozen […]

16th Nov 2015

Iraq: Shia Muslim Turkmen, Peshmerga clash in Tuz Khormato

KIRKUK, (AA): Two people were killed Sunday in clashes between Shia Turkmen and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters — which have remained ongoing for the last four days — in the Tuz Khormato district of Iraq’s north-central Saladin province. According to an Anadolu Agency correspondent at the scene, clashes between Kurdish Peshmerga and Shia fighters from the […]

14th Nov 2015

Lebanon: 43 people killed as twin blasts rock S Beirut

BEIRUT, (AA): Daesh claimed responsibility for the twin blasts that killed at least 43 people and injured 239 others in Beirut on Thursday evening. The explosions shook the Lebanese capital’s southern Burg al-Bragna neighborhood. The casualty toll was confirmed by a source within Lebanese Red Cross, which initially put it at 35 people dead. The […]

10th Nov 2015

Iraq: Six dead, 24 injured in Baghdad explosions

BAGHDAD (AA): Six people were killed and 24 others were injured Monday in several explosions that rocked the Iraqi capital, a police source told Anadolu Agency. The source said that two pro-government fighters were killed and three others were injured when “an improvised bomb went off while a vehicle carrying pro-government [militia] forces was passing […]

9th Nov 2015

Afghanistan: 25 Daesh fighters killed in E Afghanistan

By Zabihullah Tamanna KABUL, (AA): At least 25 fighters affiliated with the Daesh militant group were killed Saturday night in an operation carried out by Afghan security forces in the eastern Nangarhar province, Afghan officials said Monday. The operation was conducted in Nangarhar’s Achin district and surrounding areas, where Daesh militants, according to provincial […]

9th Nov 2015

UK ‘letting down’ allies fighting IS in Syria, says military chief

LONDON (AA) – Britain’s top military chief has said his country risks “letting down” its allies by not joining them in airstrikes against Daesh in Syria. General Sir Nicholas Houghton, the U.K.’s chief of defense staff, said it “makes no sense” for Britain’s role to be restricted to Iraqi airspace when the group’s core of operations is […]

7th Nov 2015

Turkish Coast Guard rescues 255 refugees

ANKARA (AA): The Turkish Coast Guard rescued 255 refugees in Thursday operations off the country’s western coast, the military said on Friday. Eleven refugees were found aboard an inflatable boat drifting off Izmir’s resort town of Cesme, while 35 others were rescued off Mugla’s Turgutreis. Sixty-four people were also rescued off Aydin’s Didim town, the […]

4th Nov 2015

Yemen: Thousands of families displaced by Cyclone Chapala

HADHRAMAUT, (AA): More than three thousand families in Yemen have been internally displaced after Cyclone Chapala pounded the country’s southern Hadhramaut province late Monday, according to a Yemeni emergency official. The official, who preferred anonymity, told Anadolu Agency that numerous families in the province had to flee their homes due to severe winds and heavy […]

4th Nov 2015

UN says 123,000 people newly displaced in Syria

NEW YORK (AA): More than 123,000 people have been displaced in three major Syrian governorates since last month, the UN has said. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric told reporters in New York on Tuesday that at least 123,842 people had been forced to flee their homes in Aleppo, Hama and Idlib governorates between Oct. 5 […]

2nd Nov 2015

Turkey: Erdogan’s party AKP wins majority seats

ANKARA (AA): Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said the nation favored stability in Sunday’s general election. In remarks made to reporters in Istanbul Monday, Erdogan also expressed his gratitude. “National will favored stability on Nov. 1…I want to especially thank my nation,” the president said. According to the preliminary results based on 99.58 percent of […]

31st Oct 2015

US to send special operations forces to Syria

WASHINGTON (AA): The U.S. will send less than 50 Special Forces troops to Syria to advise, assist and train moderate Syrian opposition forces fighting Daesh, the White House said Friday. Spokesman Josh Earnest maintained that the American troops will not take on a combat mission but acknowledged those sent to Syria will face significant risks. […]

29th Oct 2015

Syria: No return to pre-war status quo, says US

WASHINGTON (AA): There cannot be a return to the pre-war status quo in Syria after so much bloodshed, the White House said Wednesday. The U.S. is ready, however, to work with any nation – including Russia and Iran – to resolve the conflict, spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters ahead of Syria talks set to begin Thursday […]

28th Oct 2015

Rescue efforts underway as S Asia quake leaves 385 dead

By Aamir Latif and Zabihullah Tamanna ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AA): A powerful earthquake that rocked Afghanistan and Pakistan on Monday has left hundreds dead. Officials from both countries put the combined death toll at 385 on Tuesday. In northwestern Pakistan, rescue workers dug through the debris and mounds of mud as fears of aftershocks of the massive […]

28th Oct 2015

Yemen: Saudi-led coalition airstrikes hit hospital

Human Rights Watch: The airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition on a hospital in northern Yemen supported by Doctors Without Borders (Medecins Sans Frontiers, MSF) on October 26, 2015, was in apparent violation of the laws of war, Human Rights Watch said today. The attack with a half-dozen bombs destroyed Haydan Hospital, the only medical facility […]

28th Oct 2015

UK to keep soldiers in Afghanistan in 2016

LONDON (AA): Britain has decided not to withdraw its soldiers from Afghanistan in order to bolster the country’s security forces fighting the Taliban, said the U.K. defense secretary. Michael Fallon said it would take time for the Afghan military to develop into “a fully-fledged fighting force capable of providing complete security for the people of […]

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