Gulf Crisis: Erdogan scheduled to tour region over crisis end call

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will embark on a two-day tour in the gulf to take him to Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Qatar in an attempt to convince Qatar’s boycotters to normalize ties with the tiny-gas rich country where Turkey Read more

Iraq: Semi-autonomous Kurdish government reveals independence plan

The aspiration for independence of the semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in Iraq is still being strongly supported by the ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) amid international reticence from encouraging the planned referendum on independence. Hoshyar Siwaily, the head of Iraqi Kurdistan’s Read more

Turkey to fight terrorism regardless of criticisms, Presidency

Ankara has outlined that it will uphold its policies in the fight against terrorism despite the criticisms. Presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin accused some countries of double standards as he lamented that the “massacres” being carried out by armed Kurdish groups Read more

Gulf Crisis: Boycotting countries extend demands-list deadline

Saudi Arabia and allies who severed ties with Qatar and imposed blockades on the Emirate have extended by two days the deadline of the 13-demand list handed over to Doha to be fulfilled as condition to end the isolation, Saudi Read more

Iran: “Terrorist Baghdadi is definitely dead,”

The killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State, has been confirmed by Ali Shirazi. The representative of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamanei’s to the Revolutionary Guards – Quds Force was speaking to online news site Asr-e Read more