Category: World

Facing a backlash for appearing to greenlight Turkey’s assault against Kurdish forces in Syria, President Donald Trump on Friday dialed up pressure on America’s Nato ally by threatening crippling sanctions. The United States was moving to quash accusations of mixed messages and policy reversals over Turkey’s offensive into northeastern Syria, which began after Trump ordered […]

Turkey on Saturday denied targeting a US base in northern Syria after the Pentagon said its troops had come under artillery fire. “There was no shot fired whatsoever on the US observation post,” Defence Minister Hulusi Akar said in a statement to state news agency Anadolu. He said Turkey had returned fire on Friday after Kurdish People’s Protection […]

Iran is prepared to hold talks with regional rival Saudi Arabia, with or without the help of a mediator, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday, ahead of a visit by Prime Minister Imran Khan. Asked about reports that Prime Minister Imran, due to arrive in Iran at the weekend, may try to mediate between […]

Two rockets struck an Iranian tanker traveling through the Red Sea off the coast of Saudi Arabia on Friday, Iranian officials said, the latest incident in the region amid months of heightened tensions between Tehran and the US. There was no word from Saudi Arabia on the reported attack and Saudi officials did not immediately […]

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg expressed “serious concerns” on Friday about Turkey’s ongoing operation against Kurdish forces in Syria and called for “restraint”. “I shared […] my serious concerns about this ongoing operation and the risk of further destabilisation of the region,” Stoltenberg told reporters in Istanbul, speaking alongside Turkish Foreign […]

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed won the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his peacemaking efforts with Eritrea. Ethiopia and Eritrea, longtime foes who fought a border war from 1998 to 2000, restored relations in July 2018 after years of hostility. Nobel Institute that awards the Nobel Peace Prize, said Ahmed was named for […]

Turkish and allied forces faced stiff Kurdish resistance on Friday as they battled to seize key Syrian border towns, on the third day of a broad offensive that has sparked a civilian exodus. President Donald Trump, whose order to pull back US troops from the border this week effectively triggered the invasion, said Washington would now […]

Apple Inc on Wednesday removed an app that protestors in Hong Kong have used to track police movements from its app store, saying it violated rules because it was used to ambush police. The US tech giant had come under fire from China over the app, with the Chinese Communist Party’s official newspaper calling the […]

Bangladeshi economist and Nobel laureate Mohammad Yunus has been issued with an arrest warrant after failing to appear at a hearing over the sacking of workers at a company he heads, officials said on Thursday. A judge at a court in Dhaka issued the order on Wednesday as sacked workers from Grameen Communications (GC) lodged […]

A suspected IS radical stabbed Indonesia’s chief security minister Wiranto as he was stepping out of a vehicle on Thursday, leaving two deep wounds in his stomach and injuring three others in the attack, officials said. Television images showed security officers wrestling a man and a woman to the ground outside a university in Pandeglang […]