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Turkey rounds up plot suspects after thwarting coup against Erdogan
Turkish authorities rounded up nearly 3,000 suspected military plotters on Saturday and ordered thousands of judges detained after thwarting a coup by rebels using tanks and attack helicopters to try to topple President Tayyip Erdogan. For several hours overnight on Friday violence shook Turkey's two main cities, as the armed faction which tried to.. More -
Syria civil war: Deadly air strikes hit Aleppo hospital
At least 20 people have been killed in air strikes in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, a monitoring group has said. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said on Wednesday that at least 10 people were killed in strikes targeting the Bayan hospital in an opposition-held part of Aleppo city. Nine newborns were removed from their.. More -
Car bomb targets police station in Turkey's Mardin
Three people have been killed and several others wounded in a car bomb attack on a police station in the country's southeastern province of Mardin. Hospital sources said more than 20 people, including police officers and civilians, were wounded in Wednesday's attack in the town of Midyat, a region where government forces are battling Kurdish separatists. In.. More -
Explosion targets police vehicle in Turkey's Istanbul
A bomb attack targeting a police vehicle in a central Istanbul district has killed at least 11 people, including seven members of the police force, the city's governor has said. "Seven police and four citizens lost their lives," Vasip Sahin, Istanbul's governor, told reporters at the scene on Monday. Thirty-six people were injured, three.. More -
Air strikes kill dozens in Syria's Aleppo
At least 53 people, including children, have been killed in regime air strikes in Syria's Aleppo city, activists have said. Dozens of barrel bombs - oil drums or cylinders packed with explosives and shrapnel - were dropped by military helicopters on the heavily populated al-Qatriji neighborhood, the Syrian Observatory for Human rights, a UK-based monitoring.. More -
Israel escalates forced transfer of Palestinians
Occupied East Jerusalem - With a weary slump, Maisa Tamimi squeezed onto the living room sofa between her mother and husband. "It has been an extremely hard time," she said anxiously. "I could never have imagined I would lose my son and then my home." In recent months, Maisa's life has changed dramatically. In early March, her.. More -
Erdogan: Armenia 'genocide' used to blackmail Turkey
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said charges the Ottoman Empire committed a genocide against the Armenians are being used as "blackmail" against Turkey, insisting that Ankara will "never" accept such accusations. On Thursday, the German parliament voted to label “the 1915 killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks”.. More -
Syria's Daraya: No food in first aid convoy since 2012
Convoys have reached two out of Syria's 19 besieged areas on the day of the deadline set by the international community over the arrival of humanitarian aid to affected populations. The first Red Cross convoy entered the opposition-held Syrian town of Daraya on Wednesday, in the first such delivery since a regime-imposed siege began in 2012. Both.. More -
Civilians flee Idlib bombardment
Thousands of families are fleeing the opposition-held city of Idlib after the heaviest bombardment in months, coinciding with a separate increase in air strikes in Aleppo province. The developments come as Russia faces charges that its air strikes have killed dozens of civilians across Idlib province, including in an area near a hospital. Despite.. More -
Russian airstrikes kill 23, injure 35 in Syria
A total of 23 people were killed and 35 others were injured when three Russian warplanes launched 17 airstrikes on opposition-controlled northwestern Idlib city late Monday, a Syrian civil defense official said. Abdurrazak Jubeiro, a civil defense official in Idlib, told Anadolu Agency that the airstrikes hit several targets in the city, including.. More -
Council of Europe criticizes Greek refugee camps
The rapporteur for the Council of Europe's Committee on Migration, Refugees and Displaced Persons has expressed regret that refugee camps in Greece did not meet international standards, a report said Monday. Dutch parliamentarian Tineke Strik visited on Sunday refugee camps in Thessaloniki to which refugees and migrants have been transferred from Idomeni,.. More -
700 migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea
The UN’s refugee agency said that a total of 700 migrants are feared drowned in the Mediterranean Sea since Wednesday while desperately trying to reach European shores from Libya. William Spindler, spokesman for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told Anadolu Agency on the phone on Sunday they are worried.. More -
Syria negotiator Alloush quits over failure of UN talks
The chief peace negotiator of Syria's main opposition bloc said on Sunday he was resigning over the failure of the UN-backed Geneva peace talks to bring a political settlement to the Syria war. Mohammad Alloush, who is also the representative of the powerful Jaish al-Islam opposition faction in the Saudi-based High Negotiations Committee, told Al Jazeera.. More -
Hundreds of civilians flee Iraq's Fallujah area
Hundreds of people fled the Fallujah area Friday as forces pressed simultaneous offensives on the Iraqi city. An estimated 50,000 civilians remained trapped in Fallujah city however, as well as twice that number along Syria's border with Turkey. Tens of thousands of Iraqi forces on May 22-23 launched an offensive to retake Fallujah. IS fighters holed.. More -
UNHCR worried about 165,000 displaced near Syrian town
The UNHCR on Saturday expressed acute concern about nearly 165,000 displaced persons massing near a town in northern Syria. In a written statement, the UN's refugee agency said they are "deeply concerned" about the reported massing of 165,000 people near the town of Azaz, some 32 kilometers (20 miles) northwest of Aleppo. "People have.. More
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