YPG/PKK terrorists, who infiltrated into the area of Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring, have detonated a roadside bomb in Syria’s Tal Abyad town, causing a Syrian family their children. Terrorists planted an explosive device on a road used by civilians to go to their fields,...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Joe Biden has an Iran problem. And, it’s getting more complicated by the day. Thanks to provocative moves by Iran and less-than-coherent actions by the outgoing Trump administration, the president-elect is facing an increasingly uncertain situation when it comes to Iran, a...

HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — In Zimbabwe, where girls as young as 10 are forced to marry due to poverty or traditional and religious practices, a teenage taekwondo enthusiast is using the sport to give girls in an impoverished community a fighting chance at life. “Not many people do taekwondo...

BEIJING (AP) — China’s best-known entrepreneur, e-commerce billionaire Jack Ma, made his fortune by taking big risks. The former English teacher founded Alibaba Group in 1999, when China had few internet users. Online payments service Alipay launched five years later, before regulators said...

The Lebanese government imposed a new lockdown Monday that is set to last from Jan. 7 until Feb. 1, in a bid to to curb the dangerous spread of coronavirus as the holiday season comes to a close.

Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said Tuesday that the Gulf states had signed an agreement on regional "solidarity and stability" at a summit aimed at resolving a three-year embargo against Qatar. "These efforts helped us reach the agreement of the Al-Ula statement that will...

The European Union says it will redouble its efforts to save the Iran nuclear agreement despite what it calls Tehran’s "important breach" of commitments made in the 2015 deal by starting to enrich uranium to new levels. EU spokesman Peter Stano said that Iran’s actions "will have serious...

Qatar’s emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani left Doha on Tuesday for Saudi Arabia to attend the annual Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit. According to a statement by the Qatari Royal Court, Sheikh Tamim will lead his country’s delegation to the summit in Al-Ula city, northwest of Saudi...

Turkey's exports reached $169.5 billion in 2020, the trade minister announced Tuesday, citing preliminary data. The headline figure, despite the severe economic contraction and shrinking in foreign demand in our export markets, especially the in EU, is the exporters' success, Ruhsar Pekcan...

The Syrian Response Coordinators Group (SRCG) issued a summary of the humanitarian events in northwestern Syria and the violations of the regime and Russian forces during 2020. According to the statistical data issued by SRCG on Monday, there was 288 air strikes carried out by Russian and...

Samples of the CoronaVac vaccine brought to Turkey’s capital last week, are under tests in the Health Ministry labs for emergency use approvals, said the ministry on Tuesday. The samples of the vaccine, developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech, which were brought on Dec. 30, 2020, are tested in...

Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama will pay an official visit to Turkey on Jan. 6 on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's invitation, Turkey's Communications Directorate said on Tuesday. In a statement, the directorate said bilateral relations between Turkey and Albania as well as steps...

The densely populated Gaza Strip has long lacked sufficient drinking water, but a new project helps ease the shortage with a solar-powered process to extract potable water straight from the air. Unusually, the project operating in the Islamist-run Palestinian enclave, which has been...

One is a headscarf-wearing cleaning lady from the poor suburbs of Istanbul, the other a jet-setting psychiatrist who breaks glass ceilings and harbours suspicions about conservative Islam. Together, the two women make for a compelling story in a hit Netflix series that has pushed...

Saudi Arabia will reopen its airspace and land and sea border to Qatar as of Monday, Kuwait’s foreign minister said, citing a deal towards resolving a political dispute that led Riyadh and its allies to impose a boycott on Qatar. “Based on [Kuwait’s ruler Emir] Sheikh Nawaf’s proposal,...

Long after his teammates left the ice on a line change, one boy continued to chase the puck with dogged determination and a beaming glow across his face. "Yamen, Yamen!" his coach called out. "Change up!" The boy, caught up in childlike glee over the game, turned his attention to the bench,...

Turkish aid agencies on Monday dispatched five trucks with humanitarian aid to northwestern Syria, where millions of people remain in need of assistance due to internal conflict. The trucks crossed over into Syria’s Idlib province through the Yayladagi district of Turkey’s southern Hatay...

Families of detainees in Syrian prisons are routinely forced to bribe officials to be allowed to visit them or to win their release, according to a report that reveals the vast scale of extortion in the detention system. The sums involved – rising as high as £2m in one jail - are likely to...

The US military on Monday blamed the Taliban for a spate of assassinations of prominent Afghans, the first time Washington has directly accused the insurgent group of the killings. The charge comes as the Afghan government and Taliban are due Tuesday to resume peace talks in Qatar, as both...

Turkish security forces neutralized four PKK/YPG terrorists in northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry said on Monday. The terrorists were trying to infiltrate the Operation Peace Spring zone, south of Turkey's border, to disrupt peace and security in the region, the ministry said on...