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Turkish Strikes Destroy 14 PKK Targets in Northern Iraq

The Turkish military, , said that the warplanes conducted airstrikes Monday in the Zap, Gara, Hakurk, Avasin, and Barzan regions close to Turkey’s southwestern border, the local media outlet Hurriyet Daily News reported. Tensions between Ankara and the Kurds escalated in July 2015 when a ceasefire between Turkey and the ...

January 11, 2017

Middle East

Turkish Defense Minister: Deployment of Forces in North Iraq “Important”

Turkish Defense Minister Fikri Isik stressed Wednesday that cleansing the city of Mosul of the so-called ‘Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’ (ISIL) terrorist group has a great importance for Turkey and Iraq as well, pointing out that the presence of Turkish soldiers in Ba’shiqah is very important. In ...

January 11, 2017

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Russian defense ministry spokesman Igor Konashenkov

Russia: US, Coalition Secrecy in Syria aimed at Evading Responsibility for Civilian Deaths

Russian defense ministry said on Wednesday that the secrecy of the actions of the US Air Force and the coalition in Syria have allowed to evade responsibility for the deaths of civilians. The ministry’s spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said that the aviation of the US Air Force and the ...

January 11, 2017

World

Syria Peace Talks in Astana Set for January 23: Russian Diplomatic Source

Talks on Syria’s political future will take place in Kazakhstan’s capital Astana on January 23, a source in the Russian foreign ministry confirmed to AFP on Wednesday. “At this time there is no indication that the meeting will be postponed. The date of January 23 is set,” the source said ...

January 11, 2017

Middle East

Iraqi troops preparing to storm ISIL strongholds in Mosul

Iraq Forces Have Retaken 80% of East Mosul: Spokesman

Iraqi forces have retaken at least 80 percent of east Mosul from the ISIL Takfiri group, the spokesman of the special forces spearheading the campaign said on Wednesday. “I think you can say that we have retaken 80 to 85 percent” of the eastern side of Mosul, Sabah al-Noman, spokesman ...

January 11, 2017

World

Kremlin Denies It Has Compromising Info on Trump

The Kremlin on Wednesday denied claims that Russia gathered compromising information on US President-elect Donald Trump, saying they were aimed at damaging Moscow’s relations with Washington. “The Kremlin does not have compromising information on Trump,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists. He called the claims published by US ...

January 11, 2017

World

Russian, Turkish Foreign Ministers Stress Need to Maintain Syrian Ceasefire: Moscow

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu agreed on Tuesday on the need to observe a ceasefire in Syria while continuing to fight “terrorist groups”, Russia’s foreign ministry said. Lavrov and Cavusoglu, who spoke by telephone, discussed an upcoming meeting on the Syrian situation that is ...

January 11, 2017

World

US Names Indonesian ISIL-linked Network a Terror Group

The United States has designated the ISIL-linked Indonesian Takfiri network that carried out a deadly attack in Jakarta last year as a terrorist organization. The State Department said Tuesday that Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) is “a terrorist group based in Indonesia that was formed in 2015 and is composed of ...

January 11, 2017

World

South Korea Says North Has Plutonium for 10 Nuclear Bombs

South Korea said on Wednesday the North has enough plutonium to make 10 nuclear bombs, a week after leader Kim Jong-Un said it was close to test-launching an intercontinental ballistic missile. Seoul’s defense ministry said the North is believed to have some 50 kilograms (110 pounds) of weapons-grade plutonium as ...

January 11, 2017

Middle East

Five UAE Officials among Dead in Kandahar Bombing

Five officials from the United Arab Emirates were among the dead in a bombing in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar, the Emirates’ official WAM news agency said on Wednesday. The officials were “on a mission to carry out humanitarian, educational and development projects”, the news agency said. UAE President ...

January 11, 2017