Thursday, 25 July, 2024 , 08:43 AFP — President Vladimir Putin held talks with Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad in Moscow amid calls for Russian mediation to cool tensions between Turkey and Syria.
Thursday, 25 July, 2024 , 07:04 AFP — Vladimir Putin met Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Moscow to discuss what the Russian leader described as an "escalation" in the Middle East, images on television showed Thursday.
Monday, 22 July, 2024 , 17:32 AFP — Iraq hanged 10 "terror" convicts on Monday, officials said, in the fourth such execution in three months, prompting a rights group to call for an end to the death penalty.
Sunday, 21 July, 2024 , 14:50 AFP — An oil-drilling installation collapsed in southeastern Turkey on Sunday, killing one worker and injuring two more, local authorities said.
Sunday, 21 July, 2024 , 11:41 AFP — An oil-drilling installation collapsed in southeastern Turkey on Sunday, injuring at least three workers, local authorities said.
Sunday, 21 July, 2024 , 04:09 AFP — After a long estrangement, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad may be edging towards a meeting, but analysts say normalisation will likely be gradual due to thorny issues.
Saturday, 20 July, 2024 , 16:16 AFP — Doctors in Gaza described delivering a newborn baby against incredible odds on Saturday, pulling him from his mother's womb moments after she died of wounds sustained in an Israeli air strike.
Thursday, 18 July, 2024 , 14:32 AFP — Syria's ruling Baath party won an expected majority in parliamentary elections this week, results showed Thursday, with participation under 40 percent at the fourth such poll since civil war erupted in 2011.
Monday, 15 July, 2024 , 17:50 AFP — A monitor of Syria's civil war said an Israeli strike on a vehicle near the Lebanon border killed two people Monday including a Western sanctioned businessman close to President Bashar al-Assad.
Monday, 15 July, 2024 , 17:39 AFP — A wildfire raging in a seaside tourist area in western Turkey killed three people, the provincial governor said on Monday, the latest in a string of blazes erupting countrywide.