Turkey’s hopes of joining the European Union are fading, the bloc’s executive said Wednesday, blaming authoritarian rule for worse conditions in courts, prisons and the economy. Still considered a security ally, Turkey’s candidacy to join the world’s largest trading group is frozen because of “further serious backsliding” on rights, the ...
The Syrian deputy foreign minister Faisal Al-Mikdad stressed that Idlib province will be certainly liberated, adding that the timing of the campaign is restrictively decided by the command to achieve victory. In an interview with Al-Manar Website, Al-Mikdad emphasized that the political and military decision to liberate Idlib has been ...