Syrian President Bashar Assad delivered prayers for Eid al-Fitr holiday in Hama on Sunday in a show of victory the Syrian government had garnered through years. State television broadcast footage of Assad standing to pray in a large mosque in Hama behind its imam, with other clerics standing alongside and ...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday dismissed calls for Turkey to close a military base in Qatar and said a wider list of demands issued by four Arab states was an unlawful intervention against the Gulf emirate’s sovereignty. In his strongest statement of support for Qatar in the nearly three-week-old ...