Turkey detained 42 staff of two Istanbul universities including a prominent academic as part of an investigation into the group blamed for last year’s failed coup, state media reported Monday. Authorities issued a total of 72 arrest warrants for people suspected of links to the group of US-based Muslim cleric ...
Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi here on Monday described the US-Russia agreement to declare truce in some regions in Syria as ‘ambiguous’. Speaking in his weekly press conference, Qasemi underscored that US should stop bombarding Syria if Washington is keen on stabilizing ceasefire in the Arab county. ‘If the ...