ISTANBUL: Russia on Monday hosted a meeting of the foreign ministers of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) in the capital Moscow. A statement by the CIS said Azerbaijan, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan’s top diplomats, as well as Turkmenistan’s ambassador to Moscow, exchanged views on current
GAZA CITY: The armed wing of the Palestinian Hamas resistance group on Monday said the Al-Aqsa Flood operation on Oct. 7 last year was a “preemptive strike” against Israel. “The strike of the (Palestinian) resistance (on Oct. 7) was preemptive as the (Israeli) occupation aggression reached a dangerous level,” said
ISTANBUL: A civil society organization has sent out a special edition of a newspaper, which was published in memory of the journalists killed by Israel in Gaza, to national and international media outlets from Istanbul. The Journalists’ Solidarity for Palestine, made up of journalists working in both Turkish and international
ANKARA: Turkish security forces “neutralized” four PKK/YPG terrorists in northern Syria near the Turkish border, the country’s National Defense Ministry said on Monday. The terrorists were targeted in the Operation Euphrates Shield zone in northern Syria, the ministry said. Turkish authorities use the term “neutralize” to imply the terrorists in
ISTANBUL: Dubbed the ‘butcher of Gaza’ and compared to Adolf Hitler, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is a man whose days in power could soon be numbered. As the genocide in Gaza continues into a second year, Israel and two Israelis in particular – Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Yoav
ISTANBUL: Some 250,000 people have crossed from Lebanon into Syria following Israel’s intensified attacks, UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) chief said on Monday. “I’m at the Syrian-Lebanese border, where a quarter of a million people have crossed since 23 September,” Filippo Grandi said on X. The local authorities, the
