Tag: Middle East
ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish court on Wednesday convicted the former editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet on espionage and terror-related charges over a 2015 news story, a verdict the exiled journalist said exemplified the pressures ...
KURDISTAN National Congress (KNK) co-chair Ahmed Karamos offered to mediate in negotiations today in a bid to stave off a deadly intra-Kurdish war in northern Iraq as regional tensions escalate. Peshmerga forces associated with the Kurdistan Democratic Party ...
TURKEY has been accused of intimidating and interrogating Kurdish villagers in the border area of Iraq, blocking farmers from their land and handing them over to mercenaries. Agricultural workers have spoken of their arrest by ...
THOUSANDS of Turkish soldiers were mobilised today in operations targeting rural areas in the country’s largely Kurdish south-east, sparking anger among the population as scores of people were taken into custody. The Interior Ministry announced ...
(Reuters) – Azerbaijan accused Armenia on Wednesday of trying to attack its gas and oil pipelines and warned of a “severe” response, as tensions mounted over a fraying ceasefire in the mountain enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh. ...
CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s president Saturday ratified a maritime deal setting its Mediterranean Sea boundary with Greece and demarcating an exclusive economic zone for oil and gas drilling rights, the state-run news agency reported, in ...
(Reuters) – Iran’s president warned on Wednesday that fighting between Azeri and ethnic Armenian forces in the South Caucasus could spark a regional war and stepped up calls for a ceasefire. With fighting showing no ...
(Reuters) – Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev demanded on Sunday that Armenia set a timetable for withdrawing from the enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh and surrounding Azeri territories, and said Azerbaijan would not cease military action until that ...
By Nvard Hovhannisyan, Nailia Bagirova YEREVAN/BAKU (Reuters) – NATO allies France and Turkey traded angry recriminations on Wednesday as international tensions mounted over the fiercest clashes between Azerbaijan and ethnic Armenian forces since the mid-1990s. ...
The Israeli-Emirati commitment to normalize relations, brokered by the U.S., obviously stands to benefit all three parties. But what will the agreement mean for Middle Eastern countries whose signatures won’t be on it? The Palestinians, apparently ...