Two separate sources said Hashemi’s daughter Faezeh, jailed for six months in 2012 on charges of anti-government propaganda, had told people at the funeral that Khatami had been banned from attending. On state television’s …
By Tuvan Gumrukcu and Orhan Coskun | ANKARA, TURKEY A car bomb killed at least 13 soldiers and wounded 56 when it ripped through a bus carrying off-duty military personnel in the central Turkish …
By BENOIT FAUCON, ALISON SIDER and GEORGI KANTCHEV A two-year battle for global oil supremacy that pit Saudi Arabia, the de facto leader of OPEC, against upstart U.S. shale producers left them both …
Turkey will have back-up plans if its deal with the European Union over visa-free travel to the bloc falls through, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. Erdogan made the comment at a joint …
By Yara Bayoumy | WASHINGTON President-elect Donald Trump will nominate bankruptcy attorney David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel and Friedman said he looked forward to taking up his post in Jerusalem, a step …
BRUSSELS (AFP) – The European Union on Tuesday wrestled with a rift over Turkey’s EU membership bid after Austria led calls for the accession process to be halted over Ankara’s post-coup crackdown. Turkish President Recep …
Julian Borger World affairs editor Tuesday 13 December 2016 01.08 GMT Iran and Turkey held secret talks on peace proposals for Syria in 2013 and as recently as this year, but the talks broke down …
by Cristina Silva, International Business Times Arabs have “wronged Islam and distorted the image of Muslims,” Saudi Prince Khaled Al-Faisal warned in a speech this week. The prince said Muslims should “not allow colonialism to return, or …
By Ishaan Tharoor December 12 at 12:09 PM. Washington Post In an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday evening, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed concerns about perceived anti-Semitism surrounding the …
By Laila Bassam and Lisa Barrington | ALEPPO, SYRIA/BEIRUT The Syrian army and its allies are in the “last moments before declaring victory” in Aleppo, a Syrian military source said, after rebel defenses collapsed …
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