Niger’s military leaders accused France of breaching a ban on the country’s air space, a charge that came on the eve of a West African summit following a coup two weeks earlier. A French military aircraft “deliberately cut off all contact with air traffic control on entering our air space,” ...
Syrian President Bashar Assad has ruled out the possibility of holding talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan under the conditions when Turkish troops are on Syrian territory. “The meeting with [Turkish President] Recep Tayyip Erdogan will not take place under the conditions proposed by Ankara,” he stressed, adding, ...