A Turkish interior ministry statement on Sunday said some 20 targets of the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) group were “destroyed” in the aerial operation, including caves, shelters and depots.
The strikes came hours after a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device near an entrance of the interior ministry building in Ankara, injuring two police officers. A second assailant was killed in a shootout...
On the occasion of World Information Access Day, some media activists call the radio, television, newspapers and online media activities a big achievement of the last two decades in Afghanistan, and say that in recent years, journalists and media have faced serious economic and access to information difficulties.
A number of journalists are satisfied with access to information, but some with dissatisfaction said that...
More than 100,000 people have fled the Nagorno-Karabakh region.
It means that almost the entire population of the ethnic Armenian enclave has left since Azerbaijan seized the region last week.
The United Nations is sending a mission to the Nagorno-Karabakh region- its first access there in nearly 30 years.
The mission is to identify the humanitarian needs of residents there.
Nazeli Baghdasaryan, a spokeswoman for Armenia's prime...
A large number of people in Afghanistan suffer from heart disease, and some of them die.
Mohammad Sami Karimi, head of the control and prevention of non-infectious diseases in the Public Health Ministry says that about 22,000 people have been registered with heart disease in the last year.
"21,884 people with heart disease have been registered in Public Health Ministry in 2022, of which 2,477...
Nine members of a family, including five children, were killed and two others injured when a rocket shell went off inside a house in Sindh-Pakistan on Wednesday, police said.
According to reports, some children were out grazing cattle when they found a live rocket shell. They brought it home, where it went off, causing casualties.
Varying accounts emerged as to how the device exploded.
It should...
A teenage boy died after a window frame fell on him, the health ministry said in a statement, adding that 24 people had been hospitalised, but faced no threat to their lives, while 138 were treated for injuries, Reuters reported.
Flights were operating as normal at the international airport in the capital, its administration said.
In video and photographs on social media, flames soared into...
Saudi Arabia’s first ambassador to Palestine arrived in the occupied West Bank on an official visit.
Saudi Arabia “is working for the establishment of a Palestinian state with East Jerusalem as its capital,” Nayef bin Bandar al-Sudairi said following his meeting with Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki.
Al-Sudairi assured the Palestinian Foreign Minister that the "Palestinian issue is important" for Saudi Arabia's foreign policy.
Al-Sudairi has...
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol issued a fresh warning to Russia and North Korea in an address to the U.N. General Assembly, declaring that Seoul and its allies would respond collectively should the two authoritarian states pursue military cooperation.
“If North Korea acquires the information and technology necessary to enhance its weapons of mass destruction capabilities in exchange for supporting Russia with conventional...
Niger’s junta said in response that the announcement signals a “new step towards the sovereignty” of the country.
“Imperialist and neo-colonialist forces are no longer welcome on our national territory. The new era of cooperation, based on mutual respect and sovereignty is already underway,” it said in a statement.
The announcement was significant, if expected, blow to France’s policy in Africa, with French troops having...
Azerbaijan's lightning offensive in the separatist Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh 'achieved the set goals,' Azerbaijan's foreign minister told the UN General Assembly.
Azerbaijan took control of the Nagorno-Karabakh region after a two-day military operation last Tuesday.
“The counter-terror measures taken by Azerbaijan achieve the set goals. Armenia and its subordinate legal regime were forced to agree to disarm, disband all illegal structures and withdraw from...
