Two opposition mayors in eastern Turkey have been removed from office after being convicted of “terrorism” for belonging to a banned Kurdish militant group, the interior minister said on Friday. The mayors of Tunceli and Ovacik were each sentenced to six years and three months in prison this week for membership of the outlawed Kurdistan…
At least seven mercenaries from Russia’s Wagner private military contractor group were killed in an attack in central Mali that was claimed by an affiliate of al-Qaeda in North Africa, Site Intelligence group said Friday. Wagner previously suffered heavy losses in a July battle with predominantly Tuareg rebels and extremists near Mali’s border with Algeria…
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Moscow would carry out more tests of the hypersonic Oreshnik ballistic missile in “combat conditions,” a day after firing one on Ukraine. “We will continue these tests, including in combat conditions, depending on the situation and character of the security threats posted to Russia,” Putin said in a…
North Korea condemned on Saturday recent joint military drills by the United States, South Korea and Japan, warning that it would take immediate actions if needed to defend the state. Last week, the three countries held a three-day joint exercise, dubbed “Freedom Edge”, featuring fighter jets and marine patrol aircraft as well as the US…
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday said Russia’s threat of more strikes with new weapons should be taken seriously, warning “there will be consequences.” Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday said the conflict in Ukraine had characteristics of a “global” war and did not rule out strikes on Western countries, just after Russia struck…
Russian President Vladimir Putin delivered a televised address from the Kremlin on Thursday evening, on his statement Putin said that he would like to inform the military personnel of the Russian Federation Armed Forces, citizens of our country, our friends across the globe, and those who persist in the illusion that a strategic defeat can be inflicted upon Russia, about the events taking place today in the zone of the special…
Russian President, Vladimir Putin, spoke with Iraqi Prime Minister, Mohammed Shia’ Al Sudani, on Wednesday about the current situation in the Middle East, where Israel’s forces have been targeting Palestinians in Gaza for over 13 months in a genocidal war, Anadolu Agency reports. The two leaders described the current situation as “the unprecedented escalation of tensions in…
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman says NATO troop deployment in Ukraine would spark global catastrophe. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova criticized Thursday the opening of the US-NATO missile defense base in Poland. It is “a blatantly provocative step in a series of deeply destabilizing actions by the United States and its NATO allies in the strategic…
Russia launched a barrage of missiles at Ukraine Thursday in its first major retaliation for Ukraine’s attack earlier in the week on a military facility in the Russian region of Bryansk. That strike saw the Ukrainians use American-made and supplied long-range missiles known as ATACMS, which President Biden had given the Ukrainian forces permission to…
Shares in India’s Adani Enterprises slumped 10 percent at Thursday’s open after US prosecutors charged billionaire industrialist founder Gautam Adani with paying hundreds of millions of dollars in bribes and hiding the payments from investors. The steep losses in the Adani group’s key firm was matched by heavy selling in its other key businesses, with…
The US Senate on Wednesday blocked legislation that would have halted the sale of some weapons to Israel, which had been introduced out of concern about the human rights catastrophe faced by Palestinians in Gaza. Seventy-nine of the 100 senators opposed a resolution that would have blocked sales of tank rounds to Israel, while 18 approved it and…
Pentagon chief Lloyd Austin said Wednesday that the US military would be stepping up its attacks on Yemen’s Houthis because of its continued attacks on shipping lanes in the Red Sea. “You’ll see us increasingly place — use all the elements that are available to us in our national power to really begin to dial this down,…
An Israeli attack on Syria’s historic city of Palmyra killed 36 people and wounded more than 50 on Wednesday after it hit residential buildings and an industrial zone, the Syrian state news agency SANA reported. The Israeli military declined to comment when asked about an earlier SANA report which did not refer to mass casualties….
Russia staged “a massive information-psychological attack” against Ukraine by spreading a fake warning, purportedly from Ukrainian military intelligence, about an imminent mass air attack, Kyiv’s top spy agency said on Wednesday. “A message is being spread via messengers and social networks … about the threat of a ‘particularly massive’ missile and bomb strike on Ukrainian…
The Jordanian army said Wednesday it sent eight helicopters loaded with more than seven tons of aid to Gaza, which is grappling with a humanitarian crisis after more than a year of war. The helicopters carrying food, medicine and supplies for children took off from Jordan toward the Palestinian territory, where the aid would be…
