Turkey Thursday slammed a US jury’s decision to convict a Turkish banker for helping Iran evade sanctions as “unjust and unfortunate” and cast the trial as unprecedented interference in Ankara’s internal affairs. The decision, which capped a nearly four-week trial that had already strained diplomatic relations between Turkey and the ...
Russia’s defense ministry on Thursday said two servicemen had been killed in a mortar attack by Takfiri militants in Syria on New Year’s Eve, but denied media reports seven military planes had been destroyed. “As darkness fell, the Hmeimim air base was subjected to sudden mortar shelling from a mobile ...