President Erdoğan chairs security summit in Ankara after triple PKK attacks
President Erdoğan chaired a security summit held in the Presidential Complex in Ankara’s Beştepe district Thursday after triple PKK attacks hit Turkey’s east and southeast…
US: Iran cash linked to prisoner release
The State Department has said a $400m (£300.8m) cash payment to Iran was used as “leverage” in the release of five US prisoners. Spokesman John…
UAE residents rail against burkini ban
Are French politicians going too far with the latest local bans on public beaches of full-body swimming garments known as burkinis? Mahdia Magri, a French-speaking…
US strongly expects Turkey’s NATO membership to last
The State Department said Thursday the U.S. had every expectation for Turkey’s membership to NATO to continue and remain important to the alliance’s operations around…
‘Not one single convoy’ reached besieged Syrians this month, says UN envoy
Aid convoys have not reached Syria’s besieged areas with desperately needed food and medicine for the past month, the UN envoy to the war-ravaged country,…
First look inside Dubai Safari Park
The site in Al Warqa, opposite Dragon Mart, is, every single day, looking more and more like a miniature man-made version of South Africa’s Kruger…
Enslaved in Libya: One woman’s extraordinary escape from Islamic State
Islamic State fighters in Libya have abducted at least 540 refugees in six separate ambushes over the past 18 months. Many of the women captives…
Qatar Airways plane makes emergency landing at Istanbul airport
A Qatar Airways aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing at Istanbul’s Ataturk airport on Thursday after one of its engines caught fire shortly…
Image of injured boy in Aleppo causes outrage on social media – Video
Syrian activists have released striking pictures of a young boy rescued from a destroyed building after an air strike in the divided second city of…
Pleasure of coffee and horrors of war in Lebanon
Ten years after the 2006 Israel-Lebanon war, coffee vendors reflect on how decades of turmoil have affected their lives. A bored soldier, with his machinegun…