Turkish Islamist strongman Recep Tayyip Erdogan used his address before the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to renew his calls for expanding Security Council membership, claim that his country had “actually fought the biggest battle against ISIS,” and politely suggest to genocidal China to recognize the rights of its Muslim population.
A group of senior U.S. officials, including a deputy assistant secretary of state and the commander of the coalition against the Islamic State, visited Syria’s oil-rich Deir al Zor province on Sunday to manage a conflict between its Kurdish rulers and insurgent Arab tribes.
Competition for the lucrative human trafficking trade between ethnically-based gangs operating in northern France is driving rising violence.
NATO must agree unanimously for countries to join. Turkey´s government accuses Sweden of being too lenient on Kurdish groups.
The newly elected Turkish Parliament will feature 16 different political parties, reports say, including a radical Islamist party accused of ties to the Turkish terror organization Hizballah.
Observers sent by the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor the Turkish presidential election said on Monday that Turkey’s High Election Board (YSK) was not transparent in its handling of ballots.
Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expecting “millions” to attend an event in Istanbul branded the “rally of the century,” pro-government Turkish media reported on Tuesday, as support for the longtime strongman incumbent dwindles.
Turkey on Tuesday announced the arrest of 110 individuals for allegedly financing, colluding with, or recruiting for the PKK, a banned Kurdish separatist organization.
Iraq’s ancient Christian community is still hanging on, twenty years after the U.S. invasion forced thousands of Christians to flee and nine years after the Islamic State threatened to wipe out those who remained.
Syrian dictator Bashar Assad during a visit to Moscow this week wholeheartedly supported Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, offering his government’s official recognition of the phony “independent republics” Russia carved out of eastern Ukraine, and said he would like more Russian forces stationed permanently in Syria.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday bumped the June presidential election ahead to May 14, ostensibly to avoid conflicting with the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca and university entrance exams.
Turkey’s fractious opposition parties united on Monday behind a single candidate, Kemal Kilicdaroglu of the Republican People’s Party (CHP).
Authorities in Turkey are struggling to house the thousands of people left destitute after a series of massive earthquakes in the country last week, rushing to build tents and transfer earthquake victims to shelters a week later.
The Main Directorate of Intelligence of the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine believes is likely that Russia is employing “Kurdish mercenaries” to fly kamikaze drones against Ukrainian targets.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday declared a three-month state of emergency in ten provinces due to Monday’s devastating earthquakes. The focus on reconstruction did not prevent Turkish forces from bombing Kurdish militia positions in Syria.
Rescuers in northwestern Syria reportedly found a newborn on Monday born under the rubble of her home after a devastating series of earthquakes left much of the west of the country and eastern Turkey entirely leveled.
The elderly suspect in a Paris mass shooting that sparked violent riots before Christmas developed a “hatred of foreigners” after a home invasion in 2016, according to reports.
Riots in Paris continued into their second day in the wake of a mass shooting at a Kurdish community centre on Friday.
Riots broke out in Paris following a deadly shooting at a Kurdish Cultural Centre on Friday, with Kurdish demonstrators clashing with police.
Paris Police arrested a man in his 60s after at least two people were killed in a shooting at a Kurdish Cultural Centre in central Paris.
A growing number of Syrian Kurds are going to Europe on a winding course that includes Lebanon, Egypt, Libya, Algeria, and a boat to Spain.
Gen. Mazloum Abdi – top military commander for the Kurdish-led, U.S.-allied Syrian Defense Forces (SDF) – said on Wednesday his alliance must suspend operations against the resurgent Islamic State in order to prepare for a potentially massive Turkish invasion that could put hundreds of American troops in Syria at risk.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that Turkey’s airstrikes against Kurdish militia in Syria would soon be augmented by a major ground invasion. Meanwhile, Iran is launching missiles against Kurds living in the mountains of Iraq and using ground forces to crush protests in Iranian Kurdistan.
Iraq’s year-long political stalemate ended with a literal bang on Thursday, as Parliament elected former water resources minister Abdul Latif Rashid as president just hours after a barrage of rockets hit Baghdad’s secure Green Zone, where central government offices are located.
A Syrian Kurdish security official said on Monday that a drone strike launched by the U.S.-led anti-Islamic State coalition killed an ISIS militant while he was riding a motorcycle through the village of Hamam al-Turkman, which is currently controlled by Syrian militia forces aligned with Turkey.
Iran Human Rights (IHR), a group based in Oslo, Norway, said on Tuesday that at least 201 people have been killed during the Iranian regime’s “bloody crackdown” on the Mahsa Amini uprising.
Iran Human Rights (IHR), a monitoring group based in Oslo, Norway, said on Monday the death toll in Iran’s hijab protests is now over 75 — far higher than the Iranian government’s official count of 41.
Protests against the death of a young Kurdish woman named Mahsa Amini, killed by the “morality police” for failing to keep her head properly covered, grew and spread across Iran on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Massive protests swept Iran over the weekend after the so-called “morality police” killed a 22-year-old woman named Mahsa Amini for violating strict requirements for women to keep their heads covered in public.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan joined hands with his Russian and Iranian counterparts, Vladimir Putin and Ebrahim Raisi, at a photo op in Tehran on Tuesday.
America celebrates its independence on the Fourth of July, while captive people around the world hope they might one day celebrate their own.
ISTANBUL (AP) – Turkey’s president has told journalists he still intends to block Finland and Sweden’s accession to NATO.
Denis Pushilin, the leader of the Russia-backed Ukrainian separatist “Donetsk People’s Republic,” warned supporters of Kurdish independence not to rely on support from America or the West because “they won’t respect their promises,” unlike, he claimed, Russia.
Documents from the Swedish state department reveal that Kurdish authorities wanted Sweden to take back Islamic State women from prison camps as they deemed them too dangerous to remain in Syria.
Troops from the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq stationed at the airport in Erbil, capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), were attacked on Saturday by drones packed with explosives. One of the drones was able to penetrate the airport’s security perimeter before exploding, but no significant damage or casualties were reported.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the theocracy-controlled wing of the Iranian military and a designated terrorist organization, launched rocket and drone attacks across the border into Iraq on Thursday, targeting Kurdish militant groups Iran claims are a threat to its security.
(AFP) – French president Emmanuel Macron was to pay a visit Sunday to the Islamic State group’s former Iraqi stronghold Mosul, a day after vowing to keep troops in the country.
A mob attacked a Kurdish man preaching beside an Israeli flag in the Swedish city of Gothenburg, with one person arrested in connection to the attack.
As expected, the regime of dictator Bashar Assad declared him the winner of Syria’s sham “election” on Thursday with over 95 percent of the vote.
Syria is holding its “presidential election” on Wednesday, a farcical exercise denounced by international observers but touted by incumbent “President” Bashar Assad as a glorious exercise of popular will.
