Author: Anadolu Agency
Türkiye’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan on Sunday said Syria’s territorial integrity is “non-negotiable,” and reaffirmed that there’s no place for the PKK/YPG terror group in the country. “This is not a time to wait and see. We must take action. The territorial integrity of Syria is non-negotiable. We want to reiterate that there is no place for the PKK/YPG in Syria,” Fidan said in a joint news conference with Ahmed al Sharaa, leader of the new Syrian administration, in the capital Damascus. “This terrorist organization is occupying the lands of the Syrian people and stealing their natural resources. In today’s…
India and Kuwait on Sunday agreed to elevate the bilateral relationship to a “strategic partnership,” according to an official statement. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met with Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Meshal Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah during his two-day visit, which is the first visit of an Indian prime minister to the gulf nation in 43 years. “The leaders recalled the strong historical and friendly ties between the two countries and re-affirmed their full commitment to further expanding and deepening bilateral cooperation,” the Indian Foreign Ministry said. “In this context, they agreed to elevate the bilateral relationship to a ‘Strategic Partnership’.” Prime…
Amid escalating conflict between the junta government and rebel Arakan Army in Myanmar, a fresh 60,000 Rohingya entered Bangladesh in the last two months, a Bangladeshi official said on Sunday. Bangladesh is hosting over 1.2 million Rohingya in its southeastern Cox’s Bazar district. Most of the Rohingya Muslims fled from Myanmar in August 2017 in a military crackdown. The Rohingya infiltration has also been facilitated by corruption on the Bangladesh-Myanmar border as some people help the Rohingya cross border in exchange for money. Md. Touhid Hossain, foreign affairs adviser, told reporters about his visit to Bangkok, where an informal consultation…
Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze said on Sunday that President Salome Zourabichvili must leave her office before Dec. 29, as anti-government protests continue in the South Caucasus nation for almost a month. “President Zourabichvili will have to leave office on Dec. 29. Let’s see where she continues her life-behind bars or outside. I believe she has enough sense to avoid violating the Criminal Code,” Kobakhidze told a press briefing in the capital Tbilisi, public broadcaster 1TV reported. The premier’s remarks come a day after Zourabichvili reiterated her calls for new elections in the country, as well as her readiness to…
Another 24 Palestinians, including six children, were killed and several others injured on Sunday in Israeli airstrikes targeting various locations across the Gaza Strip. According to a medical source at the Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza City, eight bodies, including that of two children and two women, along with several injured individuals, were brought to the hospital following an Israeli airstrike on the Musa Bin Nusair School in the Al-Daraj neighborhood in central Gaza City. Eyewitnesses reported that airstrikes on the school, which housed displaced families, caused fires and extensive damage to the building. Five Palestinians, including four children, were…
Ukraine said on Sunday that at least two people were killed due to an overnight Russian drone attack in the country’s southern city of Kherson. Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said in an initial statement on Telegram that the overnight drone attack in the region killed a man in the city’s Dniprovskyi district after being mortally wounded. Prokudin later reported that the body of a woman was also found in the Dniprovskyi district, where search and rescue efforts are being conducted at a residential building that caught fire due to the attack. Ukraine’s Air Force claimed in a separate statement that its…
An ambulance helicopter crashed into a hospital in Türkiye’s southwestern Muğla province, killing four people, according to province’s Governor Idris Akbıyık. Two pilots, one doctor, and one health care worker lost their lives as the helicopter crashed into the Training and Research Hospital building in Mugla’s Mentese district. In a post on X, country’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan expressed his sorrow over the deaths and offered his condolences. Fire, health and police teams as well as personnel from Türkiye’s Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) were dispatched to the scene of the incident. Noting that there is heavy fog, Akbıyık…
Israeli opposition leaders accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday of sabotaging negotiations to reach a hostage exchange deal with Palestinians. Yair Lapid, a former premier and leader of Yesh Atid Party, said Netanyahu’s government imposes new conditions during talks to reach a deal to return Israelis held captive in Gaza. “We have nothing left to achieve in Gaza; we need to start preparing for the day after the war and bring back 100 hostages,” he told the public broadcaster KAN. “Once the war ends, we can return to Gaza and do what we need to do,” he said. “Now,…
Russia claimed on Sunday that it took control of two more settlements in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Kharkiv regions, where Moscow reportedly continues its advances along the front line. A statement by the Russian Defense Ministry claimed that its forces captured the village of Lozova, located about 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) southeast of the city of Kupiansk, a major front in Moscow’s offensive in the Kharkiv region. The statement further claimed that Russian forces also took control of the village of Sontsivka, located about 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) northwest of the city of Kurakhove, a key Ukrainian stronghold in the…
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said on Sunday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed a desire to meet with him as soon as possible to discuss the war in Ukraine. “President Putin said that he wants to meet with me as soon as possible,” Trump said during a speech in Arizona. “We have to wait for this, but we have to end that war. That war is horrible, horrible,” he added. Throughout his campaign to seek a second term as president, Trump repeatedly pledged to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours if elected. “The number of soldiers being…