Any country that stands by the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen will not be a friend of Turkey and will be considered at war with the NATO member, Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday. The government said that followers of Gulen, who has been living in self-imposed exile...
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Saturday for an attack in which a Tunisian ploughed a truck into a crowd in Nice, killing 84, prompting hard questions in France over security failures. In a statement via its Amaq news service, IS said one of its "soldiers" carried out Thursday...
The attempted coup in Turkey saw 161 people martyred and 1,440 injured, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said Saturday. Speaking in the Turkish capital Ankara, Yildirim said 2,839 military personnel involved in the “vile attempt” had been arrested. Some were senior officers, he added. He also...
Pro-coup soldiers, who tried to attack the hotel which Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan left hours earlier, have escaped from the region, sources said on Saturday. Erdogan was staying at Grand Yazici Marmaris Hotel in Turkey’s Aegean province of Mugla. Sources who requested anonymity...
At least 1,563 army personnel were detained across Turkey on Saturday after a coup attempt, according to the Interior Ministry. The ministry also suspended several parallel state military personnel including 5 generals and 29 colonels. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had earlier announced that...
Below is a timeline of breaking events in Turkey on Friday. All times in GMT, based the times Reuters reported the events. Reuters does not vouch for events reported by other media. 2226 - Two loud explosions heard in center of Turkish capital 2208 - Tanks surround Turkish parliament...
'Situation largely under control' after Turkey coup attempt: PM
Turkey's military said on Friday it had seized power, but President Tayyip Erdogan said the attempted coup would be put down. If successful, the overthrow of Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey since 2003, would be one of the biggest shifts in the Middle East in years, transforming one of the most...
Ankara (AFP) - Turkish troops launched a coup Friday, with soldiers taking to the streets of Ankara and Istanbul as the prime minister vowed the putschists would "pay the highest price". Jets screeched low overhead in the capital, while citizens rushed for the safety of their homes. State...
Thousands of supporters of powerful Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr filled a central Baghdad square on Friday, disregarding government pleas to scrap protests it said would distract from the war against Islamic State. The demonstration ended a respite from street actions which in April...
The funeral of lawmaker Jo Cox, whose murder shocked Britain in the run-up to last month's EU referendum, was being held on Friday in the northern English constituency she represented. Cox, a 41-year-old mother of two young children, was shot and stabbed in the street in the village of...
A "terrorist" gunman killed 84 people and wounded scores when he drove a heavy truck at high speed into a crowd that had watched Bastille Day fireworks in the French Riviera city of Nice late on Thursday, officials said. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said 80 people died and 18 were in a...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- The amount of wheat handed to regime’s grain centre in recent season is too small compared to the area of planted fields, which highlighted queries about reasons behind deterioration in selling wheat to grain centres and seeds multiplication centres....
Up to 30 people are feared dead and over 100 others were injured after a van drove into a crowd watching Bastille Day fireworks in the French resort of Nice Thursday, a local official told French television, describing it as a "major criminal attack". Speaking to BFMTV, Sebastien...
Turkey imposed round-the-clock curfews on 16 villages in its mainly Kurdish southeast on Thursday as security forces tried to root out militants nearby and sacked two co-mayors it accused of supporting the fighters. Authorities in the province of Diyarbakir imposed the lockdown as security...
Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Eqtsad)- Hard procedures are forced over Yarmouk basin in the Western countryside of Daraa since March 2016 in regard to preventing any type of fuel and cigarettes from entering the area controlled by Brigade of Yarmouk Martyrs and Islamic al-Mothana Movement and...
Iraqi government forces advancing on the Islamic State-held city of Mosul retook a village from IS on Tuesday and linked up along the Tigris river with army units pushing from a separate direction, Defence Minister Khalid al-Obeidi said. The territorial gain, which followed the recapture of a...
The two-month battle for ISIS's Libyan stronghold of Sirte has killed more than 240 unity government fighters and wounded over 1,400, a medic said Tuesday. Forces loyal to the U.N.-backed Government of National Accord began an operation in May to recapture the coastal city which ISIS overran...
At least nine people were killed and 30 others injured in a car bombing in Iraqi capital Baghdad on Tuesday, according to a security and medical source. A car-bomb exploded at a marketplace in al-Rashidiya, a Shia-majority district in northern Baghdad, Interior Ministry official Nazim...
The United States is stepping up its military campaign against Islamic State by sending hundreds more troops to assist Iraqi forces in an expected push on the city of Mosul, the militants' largest stronghold, later this year. U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter made the...
