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North Korean leader Kim Jong-un smiles while riding a white horse on Mount Paektu, the Korean Peninsula’s highest peak, in footage released Wednesday by the North’s KCNA. Yonhap As nuclear negotiations between North Korea and the United States remain in a stalemate after no “substantial outcome” from their recent encounter in Sweden, the lack of […]

AA Photo Turkey is not fighting against Syrians and will not sit at the negotiating table with terrorists, despite efforts by some countries to act as mediators, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Wednesday. “Turkey is not fighting against Syrians, it is fighting with Syrians against oppressors,” Erdoğan told a group meeting of the Justice and […]

Hasaka, Raqqa, SANA- Forces of the Turkish occupation and their mercenaries continued their offensive on the Syrian territories through targeting a number of villages and towns in the northern countryside of Hasaka and Raqqa with artillery and warplanes causing the displacement of citizens who fled the brutality of the Turkish occupation and its terrorist mercenaries […]

Syrian National Army troops raising the Syrian flag in Tal Abyad after the city’s liberation from YPG terrorists (AA Photo) Turkey will continue its anti-terror operation in northern Syria until all goals have been achieved, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said Tuesday. Speaking at the Turkic Council Summit in Baku, Azerbaijan, Erdoğan said Turkey aims to […]

President Donald Trump | Win McNamee/Getty Images President Donald Trump on Monday signed an executive order imposing “powerful” sanctions against Turkey for its incursion into northeast Syria. “The United States will aggressively use economic sanctions to target those who enable, facilitate, and finance these heinous acts in Syria,” Trump said in a statement. “I am […]

© Pixabay Earth is soon set for another close shave with a hurtling space rock as an 111-foot asteroid is poised to skim past our planet on its closest approach for 115 years. First spotted by astronomers only earlier this week, the asteroid dubbed 2019 TA7 is set to fly by Earth at a speed […]

Syrian army soldiers ride at a back of a truck in the town of Morek, Hama district, Syria August 24, 2019. Omar Sanadiki, Reuters Syria’s Kurds have announced a groundbreaking deal with Damascus on a Syrian troop deployment near the border with Turkey, as Ankara presses a deadly cross-border offensive that has sparked an international outcry. […]

Turkish military vehicles carrying tanks as they are on the way to northern Syria. SEDAT SUNA/EPA Heavy fighting continued on Sunday as Turkey presses ahead in the fifth day of its military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria. Ankara says the offensive aims to remove the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of rebels led by the People’s Protection Units […]

  A Somali-Canadian human rights activist left her comfortable environment in Ottawa to war-ravaged Somalia to help women who were being raped by soldiers. At a time Somalia was almost torn apart, Ilwad Elman took a bold step to establish the first rape Crisis Centre in the capital, Mogadishu. Activism runs through her family; her […]