Tag: Turkey

Scientists exhume the body of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat today to find out whether he died of poisoning. Although his medical records say he had a stroke, abnormally ...

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that immunity of some Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) deputies would be lifted. Prior to his departure for Spain, Erdogan replied ...

Former U.S. national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski has said an attack on Iran would be "an act of utter irresponsibility" and "potentially a significant immorality" if the United States participated.  ...

Now that the dust has settled in Gaza, permit me a brief comment on the way the conflict was covered here in the United States.   I normally leave media commentary ...

The backlash after the heady Arab revolutions of 2011. The rumblings of war with nuclear-aspiring Iran. The bloody persistence of Bashar al-Assad in civil war-torn Syria. Not to mention a ...

Turkey’s military says a delegation of Turkish and NATO officials will start surveying sites for the possible deployment of Patriot missiles on Turkey’s border with Syria. Syria is believed to ...

The Israeli Defence Minister, Ehud Barak, has announced he will quit politics after the general election next January. Mr Barak, who was Israel's prime minister between 1999 and 2001, said ...

Originally from Pakistan, Sumeyye Kerim has made it in history by being the first girl with headscarf ever to talk in the British Parliament. Kerim told AA correspondent, "It was an unforgettable ...

Smoking "rots" the brain by damaging memory, learning and reasoning, according to researchers at King's College London. A study of 8,800 people over 50 showed high blood pressure and being ...

Gangnam Style, the dance track by South Korean pop phenomenon Psy, has become YouTube's most-watched video of all time. It has notched up more than 808m views since it was posted ...