Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has condemned Greek Cyprus for reportedly blocking an invitation to Turkey to attend tomorrow’s meeting of EU foreign ministers on Syria. “They can impose a veto bureaucratically but they cannot veto Turkey’s historic role in the region. It’s up to the EU to decide,†Davutoğlu said on the Kanal 24 [...]
Iranian protesters storm the British compounds in Tehran in a confrontation over Iran’s nuclear program reminding of scenes from the seizing of US mission in 1979. Iranian students stormed British diplomatic sites in Tehran yesterday, bringing down the Union Jack flag, burning an embassy vehicle and throwing documents from windows in scenes reminiscent of the [...]
The head of Syrian National Council has secretly met the leader of the so-called Free Syrian Army in Hatay to promise support in the fight against Damascus A delegation headed by the president of the Syrian National Council (SNC) conducted a secret meeting with the highest ranking Syrian army defector and leader of the self-proclaimed [...]
A draft directive that aimed to open security and intelligence spending to the review of the relevant state agencies, which was submitted to the Court of Accounts recently, was changed after the military allegedly applied pressure on the government. The claim was the main story of the Taraf daily yesterday, but a source at the [...]
US Vice President Joe Biden travels to Turkey this week amid deepening concern over Syria, before visiting a new Greek leader battling a debt crisis that could unravel the euro zone and sink the US recovery. Biden flies into Ankara on Thursday with a range of hot-button topics to discuss including the eight-month crackdown on [...]
The militant Islamic group Hamas is ready to accept a Palestinian state within 1967 and is open to a discussion of recognizing Israel, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday. “I would wish that Hamas would agree to this,†Abbas told reporters during a visit to Vienna. “Maybe this will be an issue to talk about [...]
Several rockets fired from southern Lebanon landed into Israel overnight, prompting the Jewish state’s army to warn Beirut early Tuesday to work to prevent similar attacks in the future. The rockets, which landed in the western Galilee region, caused no casualities, the army said in a statement. But it warned: “The Israeli army considers that [...]
A Russian woman accused of spying for Moscow while working as a researcher for a British lawmaker on Tuesday won her appeal to remain in Britain after insisting she was innocent. Katia Zatuliveter, 26, convinced the Special Immigration Appeals Commission (Siac) that she was not liaising with Russian intelligence services while working for Mike Hancock, [...]
A Lebanese army spokesman confirmed to AFP today that a rocket was fired overnight from southern Lebanon toward Israel, adding it was still unclear who was behind the incident. “We know that a rocket was fired from the (border) region of Rmaish and we are investigating,” said the spokesman, who did not wish to be [...]
Inspired by the global “Occupy” movement, youths from across the divide in Cyprus have joined forces to set up camp inside the buffer zone that has split the island since 1974, demanding reunification. After over a week, half a dozen tents are pitched in a few square metres of the occupied “public land” along the [...]
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