German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday that EU-Turkey relations have been severely hit by actions taken by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government. “The developments over the past weeks have severely hit German-Turkish ties as well as European-Turkish relations,” she told parliament, saying in particular that Ankara’s arrest and treatment of ...
Israeli Intelligence Minister Yisrael Katz said a massive explosion near Damascus International Airport on Thursday was ‘consistent with Israeli policy’, but stopped short of confirming his country was behind it. “We are acting to prevent the transfer of sophisticated weapons from Syria to Hezbollah in Lebanon by Iran,” Katz told ...
