Turkey's President and leader of ruling Justice and Development Party Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses his lawmakers at the parliament in Ankara, Turkey, Tuesday, Jan. 16, 2018. Erdogan on Tuesday called on NATO to take a stance against the United States, a fellow ally, over its plans to form a ...
Fawza Youssef, a senior Syrian Kurdish politician is pictured at her office in Qamishli/ Fawza Youssef, a senior Syrian Kurdish politician is pictured at her office in Qamishli, Syria January 15, 2018. REUTERS/Rodi Said/ QAMISHLI, Syria (Reuters) - Kurdish-led regions of Syria are looking to a ...
Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces place flags at Naim Square after liberating Raqqa, Syria October 18, 2017./ LONDON (Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday a new U.S.-backed, 30,000-strong force inside Syria constituted a breach of international law and Syrian ...
Iran has condemned the U.S. plan to create a 30,000-strong force inside Syria to protect territory held by the Kurdish-Arab coalition that helped oust the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) from most of northeastern Syria. The U.S.-led coalition worked with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), ...
With the offensive against IS winding down, the coalition and its allies in the Syrian Democratic Forces alliance are beginning to shift their focus to border security (AFP Photo/BULENT KILIC)/ Beirut (AFP) - The US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State group said on Sunday it was working to ...
Iran says a U.S. plans to form a new border security force in Syria will cause more instability and "add flames of fire" in the war-torn country./ The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi says the U.S. plan for a new Kurdish-led force will further complicate the conflict in Syria ...
TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held separate talks on Tuesday with Syrian, Iraqi, Qatari, Senegalese and Algerian parliament speakers on the sidelines of the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States (PUIC) in Tehran. During his meeting with Qatari Parliament Speaker Ahmad bin ...
Israeli officials are increasingly concerned that the UN's top criminal court is planning to seek arrest warrants for their military and political leaders on suspicion of war crimes./ Reports suggest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could be among them./ The International Criminal Court (ICC) ...
LOS ANGELES (AP) — A scuba dive boat captain was scheduled to be sentenced by a federal judge Thursday on a conviction of criminal negligence after 34 people died in a fire aboard the vessel nearly five years ago. was the deadliest maritime disaster in recent U.S. history, and prompted changes ...
- Bitcoin’s tumble is piquing the interest of investors who view pronounced swings in the digital token as a possible precursor for broader changes in risk appetite in global markets./ The cryptocurrency has shed about 4% in the past two days following a near 16% plunge in April, the worst ...
In many southern Lebanese villages, there are no signs of life. People have fled, leaving towns deserted. Israel has been carrying out strikes on southern Lebanon almost daily since Hezbollah - the powerful Lebanese Shia Islamist group - fired rockets at Israel on 8 October in support of Hamas ...
The family of a gay British-Mexican man held in Qatar for alleged drug offences has given further details of what they say was a "honeytrap" operation using the gay dating app, Grindr./ Manuel Guerrero Aviña was approached online by a man called "Gio" and they arranged to meet - but he was ...
Joie Henney hugs his emotional support alligator named Wally, Jan. 22, 2019, inside their home in York Haven, Pa. Henney credits Wally for helping relieve his depression for nearly a decade, says he's searching for the reptile after it went missing during a vacation to the coast of Georgia. ...
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A home health care company failed to protect a visiting nurse who was killed during an appointment with a convicted rapist at a Connecticut halfway house and should be fined about $161,000, federal workplace safety officials said Wednesday. The Occupational Safety and ...
Two human rights groups have condemned an 11-year prison sentence handed to a Saudi fitness instructor and women's rights activist by a terrorism court./ Manahel al-Otaibi, 29, was convicted of charges related to her clothing choices and expression of her views online,/ These included calls for ...
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — It was the music that changed first. Or maybe that’s just when many people at the pale brick Catholic church in the quiet Wisconsin neighborhood finally began to realize what was happening. The choir director, a fixture at St. Maria Goretti for nearly 40 years, was suddenly ...
Shohei Ohtani is still just playing baseball after being all but cleared in the Ippei Mizuhara scandal. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)/ If you were curious about what exactly happened to Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani's money after it was allegedly stolen by his former interpreter, ...