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  • UN advisor fears Myanmar situation may get out of hand

    A top United Nations official is warning that the ongoing violence in Myanmar's west is in danger of “getting out of hand", and is asking the country's leaders to be more assertive in resolving historic problems faced by the area's Muslim and Buddhist communities. In an exclusive interview earlier this week, the UN secretary-general’s.. More

  • Muslims and Christians team up to help homeless

    Muslim and Christian groups in Britain are joining forces to help the country’s homeless and other vulnerable groups. Organizations including Muslim Aid, the Al-Khair Foundation, Streetlytes, and churches across the English capital of London are expanding their efforts by providing meals and shelter packs to rough sleepers. Their aim is to.. More

  • Aleppo evacuations resume after delays

    Evacuations from the last opposition-held enclave of Aleppo have resumed despite heavy snowfall after being stalled for a day, according to aid officials and pro-regime media reports. Obstacles hindering evacuations from eastern Aleppo and from two villages besieged by opposition fighters outside the city had been overcome on Wednesday, clearing a.. More

  • Turkey opens major road tunnel linking Europe with Asia

    A major $1.3-billion tunnel linking Istanbul’s European and Asian sides opened Tuesday with a ceremony attended by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim. "I wish the Eurasia Tunnel, which links the continents, to be auspicious for Istanbul and Turkey,” Yildirim said. Yildirim said the Eurasia Tunnel was.. More

  • Turkish hospitals treat nearly 150 Aleppo evacuees

    The number of refugees from the war-battered city of Aleppo being treated in Turkish hospitals grew to 148, Turkey’s Directorate General of Press and Information announced early Tuesday. The injured, those in critical condition in particular, have been transported to hospitals in Turkey’s southern Hatay province. Among those 58 are children,.. More

  • Militant attack in Jordan leaves 4 security men dead

    Four security personnel were killed in Jordan’s southern Al-Karak province on Tuesday in a gunfight with militants, Jordan’s Petra news agency quoted an official security source as saying. According to the security source, the gunfight erupted as Jordanian security forces were conducting raids in the area in hopes of finding wanted militants. Ea.. More

  • UN Security Council backs sending observers to Aleppo

    With Russia's backing, the United Nations Security Council on Monday voted to quickly deploy UN observers to Aleppo to monitor evacuations and report on the fate of civilians who remain in the besieged Syrian city. The council unanimously adopted the French-drafted resolution that marks the first show of unity in months among world powers grappling.. More

  • Russian ambassador Andrey Karlov shot dead in Ankara

    Russia's ambassador to Turkey was shot dead in front of a crowd at a posh art gallery in the capital Ankara as the angry gunmen screamed "don't forget Aleppo". Police later killed the assailant on Monday night, Turkish station NTV reported. Andrey Karlov, 62, was several minutes into a speech at an embassy-sponsored photo exhibition when.. More

  • Suicide bombing kills 43 soldiers in Yemen’s Aden

    At least 43 soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing claimed by ISIS in Yemen’s southern city of Aden on Sunday. A bomber blew himself up among a crowd of soldiers gathered to collect their salaries at al-Solban base in northeastern Aden. The attack has killed 43 soldiers and injured scores, a Yemeni medical source said on condition of anonymity.. More

  • Thousands leave east Aleppo as evacuations continue

    Dozens of buses carrying evacuees from the last opposition-held district of Aleppo travelled to opposition-controlled areas of countryside outside the city early on Monday, a United Nations official and a monitor said. The UN official told Reuters news agency that 50 buses and two ambulances had left the opposition zone, while the UK-based Syrian Observatory.. More

  • Cease-fire once again reached in Syria’s Aleppo

    Syrian regime forces and the opposition agreed once again to a cease-fire in eastern Aleppo, opposition commanders told Anadolu Agency early Thursday. The truce took effect 1 a.m. local time (2300GMT) Thursday and allows civilians to immediately leave the area by buses pending no violations of the agreement. Commanders, who spoke on condition of anonymity.. More

  • Paris holds huge protest to support Aleppo

    Thousands of demonstrators gathered here Wednesday to demand an immediate cease-fire and urgent humanitarian intervention in the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo. It was the largest demonstration in France since the beginning of the Syrian war six years ago, according to Amnesty International, one of the NGOs who called for the #StandWithAleppo gathering. Cro.. More

  • Pro-Assad militias obstructing Aleppo evacuation

    Pro-Assad Shiite militias are obstructing the evacuation of civilians in eastern Aleppo, a Syrian opposition official said on Wednesday. An evacuation of opposition-held areas of eastern Aleppo was delayed on Wednesday for reasons that were not clear, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, holding up implementation of an agreement to restore.. More

  • Residents of east Aleppo anxiously await evacuation

    An agreed evacuation of opposition forces and civilians from the devastated Syrian city of Aleppo has been delayed, according to activists in besieged parts of the city and a monitor. Bus-loads of people were set to begin leaving on Wednesday morning as part of a deal with the regime, whose forces have taken control of the entire city after weeks of.. More

  • Assad regime massacres thousands in Aleppo

    The crucial "battle for Aleppo" entered its "final phase" Monday after Syrian opposition forces retreated into a small pocket of their former bastion in the face of new army advances. Bashar al-Assad's forces have taken more than 90 percent of the onetime opposition stronghold of east Aleppo, a monitor and military official said,.. More