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Key developments on Feb. 12:  Russia’s Wagner Group claims it captured Krasna Hora, 6 kilometers north of Bakhmut UK Defense Ministry: Russia likely suffering highest casualties since March Ukraine imposes sanctions against 200 individuals Former Ukrainian governor of Chernivtsi Oblast Serhiy Osachuk (C), 50, now Lieutenant Colonel of the State Border Guard Service, poses inside […]

MOGADISHU, Somalia At least 82 people, including civilians, have been killed in eight days of fighting in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland, a medical source said Monday FILE PHOTO Abdimajid Hussein Sugulle, a medical doctor at Manhal Hospital in Lasanod, told Anadolu by phone that more than 82 people were killed during the conflict in […]

In a video message for an international event in the UAE on Tuesday, President Erdoğan hailed the support from the international community after last week’s quakes and said it demonstrated the necessity of permanent international solidarity A woman carries bread taken out of the rubble of her house, in Kahramanmaraş, southeastern Türkiye, Feb. 14, 2023. […]

Vice President Fuat Oktay said late Saturday that at least 24,617 people were killed by two strong earthquakes that jolted southern Türkiye last Monday. This number rose to 29,605, according to the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) later on Sunday. The AFAD also said 147,934 others have been evacuated from the region to the […]

Feb. 12 (UPI) — U.S. Africa Command killed at least 12 al-Shabaab fighters in an airstrike in Somalia, the agency said Sunday. U.S. Africa Command killed at least 12 al-Shabaab fighters in an airstrike in Somalia, the agency said Sunday. File Photo courtesy of Michael B. Keller/UPI/U.S. Air Force | License Photo The attack took […]

Andriy Chernyak told Kyiv Post that an attack from the territory of Belarus and a second attempt to take the capital Kyiv was “unlikely in the coming weeks”. Russian soldiers run along Red Square in central Moscow. Pic AFP Russia does not have the resources available to launch a large-scale offensive around the Feb. 24 anniversary […]

Miracles are abound in the aftermath of two earthquakes that killed thousands in Türkiye’s southern and southeastern regions. Survivors, who escaped uninjured or recovering in hospitals, say they are lucky and thank Allah for emerging alive from the devastation that razed towns and cities to the ground in a short time. Idris Kan looks at the […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. shot down an unidentified object Friday over frozen waters near Alaska at the order of President Joe Biden, less than one week after shooting down a Chinese spy balloon off the East Coast. US President Joe Biden waits for the arrival of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his wife Rosangela Janja da […]

The death toll from the devastating earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria is now at least 19,738, according to authorities. In Turkey, the death toll has risen to at least 16,546, with 66,132 others reported injured, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. The total number of deaths in Syria climbed to at least […]

Life for millions across Türkiye changed forever on Monday, as a pair of earthquakes nine hours apart with magnitudes of 7.7 and 7.6 rocked its southern region, marking the ‘disaster of the century’ After 14 hours of recovery efforts, a young woman was pulled from the wreckage, 96 hours after the earthquake, Hatay, Türkiye, Feb. […]