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AA Photo The Joint Operation Center that will be established in cooperation between Turkey and the U.S. will become operational within the next few days, as first the party of U.S. personnel arrived in southeastern Turkey’s Şanlıurfa, National Defense Ministry said Monday. The ministry said six personnel arrived in Şanlıurfa to begin work on the […]

Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers can be seen training [AMISOM Public Information/Flickr] At least 16 al-Shabaab fighters were killed in Somalia after Somali special forces backed by Turkey trained forces attacked al-Shabaab positions in the region, state media said on Sunday, Anadolureports. The attack took place on al-Shabaab positions near the town of Awdhegle in Lower […]

© Israeli Navy זרוע הים Tehran has advised Israel to stay clear of the Persian Gulf, where the US has been struggling to amass an anti-Iranian armada, noting that every vessel illegally present in the region increases the risk of an all-out conflict. “Any illegitimate presence by the Zionists in the waters of the Persian […]

Pro-democracy demonstrators at the Hong Kong airport for a fourth day of protest on Monday [Vincent Thian/AP] Hong Kong airport has suspended all the remaining flights for Monday due to the ongoing pro-democracy protest in its terminal, according to airport authorities. Authorities said they were suspending departing and arriving flights at one of the world’s busiest […]

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un watches the test-fire of two short-range ballistic missiles on Thursday, in this undated picture released by North Korea’s Central News Agency on July 26. Reuters North Korea launched two more projectiles believed to be short-range ballistic missiles into the East Sea, Saturday, according to the South Korean military, the latest […]

The already-strained relationship between Tehran and Washington ties worsened on 20 June, when Iran said that it had downed a US drone over Iranian soil. US President Trump then tweeted that he had halted a military strike against Iran 10 minutes before it was set to be carried out, upon learning that some 150 Iranians […]

Iraqi security force hunt for Islamic State terrorists. Diyala (IraqiNews.com) – An Iraqi police chief announced on Wednesday the destruction of five hideouts of the Islamic State terrorist group in Diyala province. “Five Islamic State hotbeds were destroyed Wednesday on the outskirts of Khanaqin and in Jalawla districts in Diyala as part of the third […]

Donald Trump by Gage Skidmore on 2016-10-29 15:57:26 U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he received a “beautiful” letter from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, in which Kim also expressed dissatisfaction with joint U.S. – ROK military exercises. Trump made the remarks during a 30-minute question and answer sessions on the White House south lawn, […]

FILE – Mayor Abdirahman Omar Osman is pictured in Mogadishu, Somalia. The mayor died Aug. 1 of injuries suffered in a suicide bombing July 24. Mogadishu residents are mourning the loss of their mayor, who died Thursday of injuries suffered in a suicide bombing July 24 that killed at least six other people. Abdirahman Omar Osman, […]

Twenty years ago on Friday, Russian president Boris Yeltsin appointed his fourth prime minister in less than 18 months: Vladimir Putin, then a relatively unknown security services chief with scant experience of politics.  The departing Yeltsin was casting around for a successor and few could have predicted that two decades later Putin would still be ruling Russia, having […]