Turkey’s parliament will next week start a fortnight of debates on a controversial new constitution aimed at expanding the powers of the presidency under Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state media said on Saturday. The new constitution, which will replace the basic law drawn up in the wake of Turkey’s 1980 military ...
Iraqi forces battling the ISIL group in Mosul are approaching the Tigris River, which runs through the center of the city, the spokesman for the Counter-Terrorism Service said Saturday. Iraq launched a massive operation on October 17 to retake Mosul from the ‘jihadists’, who seized the city more than two ...
