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Erdogan warns 'heavy price' if Turkish ship attacked

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday warned of a "heavy price" if a Turkish vessel searching for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters was attacked and hinted that one incident had already occurred. Existing tensions between Turkey and Greece escalated when Ankara this...

Iraq seeks Arab help to push Turkish troops out

Iraq has urged its Arab allies to help persuade Turkey to withdraw its troops from Iraqi territory, where they have been raiding Kurdish militant positions, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Its comments come two days after a Turkish drone strike killed two high-ranking Iraqi officers in...

Rights group: Houthis, Saudis killed Ethiopian migrants

 A prominent rights group Thursday accused Yemen's Houthi rebels and rival Saudi border guards of killing several dozen Ethiopian migrants in an incident at the border earlier this year. The statement from New York-based Human Rights Watch quoted Ethiopian migrants who said Houthi...