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Turkiye and Britain have signed a memorandum of understanding to allow Ankara to be a user of Eurofighter Typhoon fighters, in a big step toward securing the procurement of the jets over which Turkiye has been negotiating for years. Turkiye has been in talks to purchase 40 of the jets,
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At least 27 people were killed after a Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashed into a college and school campus in Dhaka, officials said on Tuesday, with 88 people, including children, being treated in hospital. The F-7 BGI aircraft crashed soon after it took off at 1:06 p.m.
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Ukraine’s new prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, said she will probably seek more financing from the International Monetary Fund, and will speak with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about new funding, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. “If the baseline scenario assumes the war will continue into next year, it is
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Deep in the mountains of Turkiye’s southeastern Hakkari province, bordering Iran and Iraq, Kurdish livestock owners and farmers have gradually returned with their animals after decades of armed conflict between Kurdish militants and the Turkish army. “We’ve been coming here for a long time. Thirty years ago we
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Calm returned to southern Syria’s Sweida province on Sunday after a week of sectarian violence between Druze fighters and rival groups that killed more than 1,100 people. A ceasefire announced on Saturday appeared to be holding after earlier agreements failed to end fighting between longtime rivals the Druze
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Indonesian rescuers evacuating people from a passenger ferry that caught fire at sea said Monday more than 560 were rescued and three died. The KM Barcelona 5 caught fire around midday Sunday while heading to Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi province, on its regular half-day journey from Melonguane port
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France’s Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot on Monday arrived in Kyiv for a two-day visit aimed at supporting Ukraine in its fight against Russia’s invasion, AFP journalists reported. Barrot is expected to meet counterpart Andriy Sybiga, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and newly-nominated Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko. “In the wake
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President Donald Trump’s administration said Friday the United States was rejecting changes agreed last year for the World Health Organization on its pandemic response, saying they violated the country’s sovereignty. Trump on returning to office on January 20 immediately began his nation’s withdrawal from the UN body,
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The Lebanese army said on Friday that it “will not allow any breach of security or violation of civil peace” amid fears that rising tensions in the neighboring Syrian Arab Republic could spread to Lebanon. In a statement, the army added that “overcoming this phase requires the unity and solidarity
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Another 10 hostages will be released from Gaza shortly, US President Donald Trump said on Friday, without providing additional details. Trump made the comment during a dinner with lawmakers at the White House, lauding the efforts of his special envoy Steve Witkoff. Israeli and Hamas negotiators have been taking part
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The Iraqi government announced Thursday an agreement to resume crude exports from the autonomous Kurdistan region after a more than two-year halt and amid drone attacks on oil fields. Lucrative oil exports have been a major point of tension between Baghdad and Irbil, with a key pipeline through Turkiye shut
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Syrian troops on Thursday pulled out of the Druze heartland of Sweida on the orders of the Islamist-led government, following days of deadly clashes that killed nearly 600 people, according to a war monitor. The southern province has been gripped by deadly sectarian bloodshed since Sunday, with hundreds reportedly killed
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London, United Kingdom – A senior delegation from the Libya 2030 Political Initiative has concluded a high-level visit to London, carrying a clear and urgent message: Libya is at a dangerous crossroads, and only the formation of a unified government—backed by coherent international support—can steer the country away from
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Bangladeshi security forces on Wednesday clashed with supporters of ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, leaving at least four people dead and scores injured, a hospital official and local media said. The violence erupted in the morning and spread as a new political party formed by students who led the uprising
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A massive fire in a hypermarket in Al-Kut city in eastern Iraq has left at least 60 people dead and 11 others missing, the city’s health authorities and two police sources told Reuters on Thursday. Videos circulating on social media showed flames engulfing a five-story building in Al-Kut overnight
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A cockpit recording of dialogue between the two pilots of the Air India flight that crashed last month indicates the captain cut the flow of fuel to the plane’s engines, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday. The newspaper cited people familiar with US officials’ early assessment of evidence