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Damascus Countryside, SANA- Units of the Syrian Arab army on Thursday secured the exit of a new batch of besieged civilians from the eastern Ghouta via Hamouriya. The besieged civilians were used as human shields by terrorist organizations SANA reporter said that since early morning the army units and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent teams […]

© EPA/ANDY RAIN MOSCOW, March 15. /TASS/. Moscow is currently considering retaliatory steps against London and will divulge them in the near future, Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Thursday. “After the United Kingdom announced unfriendly actions against Russia, retaliatory measures must be taken, as the Russian Foreign Ministry stated yesterday,” she said. “They […]

After saying earlier that it needed proof of Russia’s involvement, President Macron’s office says there is “no other plausible explanation” and stands by its British ally. France said on Thursday it agreed with Britain that Russia was behind a nerve agent attack on a Russian ex-spy in England, President Emmanuel Macron’s office said in a […]

Defense Minister Song Young-moo North Korea’s rare signal for dialogue with the United States is drawing attention away from the upcoming joint military exercises between Seoul and Washington. Before Pyongyang expressed its strong willingness to hold a summit with Seoul, all public and military attention was directed at how and when the allies would hold […]

File photo showing Italian police carrying out raids, in the Roman suburb of Ostia. Photo: Tiziana Fabi/AFP Italian police have arrested a 24-year-old man for possession of explosive materials, following a tip-off from the USA’s FBI. Police said on Thursday that the man was arrested “for possession of material which could be used for making […]

Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen talks to media, Ankara, Turkey, March 14, 2018. (Photo: Kurdistan 24) ERBIL, Kurdistan Region (Kurdistan 24) – The United Nations has to act to end an ongoing Turkish invasion of the Afrin region in Syrian Kurdistan before a humanitarian catastrophe unfolds, Turkey’s pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party […]

Hawa Hassan, founder of Photo: Courtesy of Anastasia Mikhanoshina “Even when I was a little girl, I was doing the cooking and the shopping while my mom was selling at the store. As a Somali girl, you grow up in the kitchen,” says Hawa Hassan, founder and CEO of Basbaas, the only line of Somali hot sauces […]

The secret American “black site” for interrogating suspected terrorists in Thailand was known to the CIA as “Detention Site Green” but for its first detainee, it was decidedly white. Four halogen lights blasted the white walls 24 hours a day, according to Steve Coll in his book Directorate S, about the Pakistani spy service and those […]

Dubai: Dubai Police arrested a Pakistani national suspected of killing a medical student in his home country, officials told Gulf News on Wednesday. Mujahid Afridi allegedly shot Asma Rani murder three times outside her home in Kohat in January.  Afridi, 25, killed the third-year medical student in Abbottabad and was arrested in Dubai on March 10 before […]

TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Wednesday slammed the United States for its hostile policies towards the Middle East, saying Washington is not entitled to intervene in Syria. Washington needs to carefully consider the implications of its policies before adopting any interventionist policies in the region, Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qassemi told a regular […]