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eight soldiers were killed and 13 more wounded in nourthwst syria.(File photo: Reuters) Turkey suffered heavy losses on Thursday during its offensive against a Kurdish militia in northwest Syria, with the military announcing that eight soldiers were killed and 13 more wounded. The death toll, released by the Turkish military staff in two separate statements, […]

Trump on new tariffs: ‘We haven’t been treated fairly’ US President Donald Trump has said “trade wars are good”, amid controversy over his decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. He tweeted that the US was “losing billions of dollars on trade” and would find a trade war “easy to win”. On Thursday […]

The Syrian government began bombing Eastern Ghouta, hometo almost400,000 people, on February 18 [AFP] The White Helmets group says 674 civilians killed in past 13 days as Syrian regime continues to pound rebel-held area As many as 674 civilians have been killed in the last 12 days by the continuous air attacks on the Damascus suburb […]

mStudents rally in solidarity with victims of the Florida high school shooting in Washington, DC, last month [J Scott Applewhite/AP] US president also raises eyebrows by suggesting police should be able to confiscate firearms without a court order. US President Donald Trump has called for immediate and significant changes to the nation’s gun laws while criticising American […]

Kremlin Press Service With presidential elections just weeks away, Vladimir Putin’s annual address to the Federal Assembly on Thursday was widely expected to be a campaign speech, rather than the traditional roadmap for the year ahead. Speaking from Moscow’s Manege exhibition hall, Putin set out Russia’s goals for the next six years and beyond with the help […]

Egypt’s President Sisi at inauguration of New Alamein City (Photo: Al-Ahram) Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated via video conference on Thursday the first phase of New Alamein City in Marsa Matrouh governorate and other national projects. The first phase of the city includes 5,000 housing units to be available for reservation in April, according to […]

MAn aid convoy carrying humanitarian supplies for 50,000 displaced people has arrived in Afrin in Syria. (File photo: Reuters) An aid convoy carrying humanitarian supplies for 50,000 displaced people has arrived in Afrin in Syria, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday, as Turkey wages an offensive in the […]

AA Photo Turkey on Thursday accused the U.S. of a double standard in trying to dictate which terrorist groups can be fought or not. Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesman Bekir Bozdağ said Turkey is fighting Daesh terrorists in Syria like the U.S. “Turkey is also focusing on Daesh. We […]

President Vladimir Putin stressed that Russia’s Arctic fleet is and will remain the strongest in the world, as the country has been strengthening the military infrastructure in the region to secure its interests there. Fyodor Ushakov multifunctional ice breaking platform supply vessel is moored at the marine terminal in Murmansk © Pavel Lvov / Sputnik […]

Ahmad Alhaw. Photo: DPA A Palestinian jihadist who killed one man and wounded six other people in a German supermarket knife rampage last year was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison. Ahmad Alhaw, 27, had admitted to the murder and assaults in the river port city of Hamburg. In delivering the sentence, the judge […]