Dozens of Turkish hostages being held by the radical Islamic State group have been released. The hostages arrived in Turkey in the early hours of Saturday, local time, after being held for 101 days. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced...
Officers of Russian Federal Security Service encircled Mejlis building Sept 16 and are currently conducting a search inside of the building. Commenting the incident, deputy head of Mejlis of Crimean Tatar people Ahtem Chiygoz said it is connected with...
Europe’s biggest rally ever? Up to 2 million Catalans march for independence Hundreds of thousands of Catalans have flooded the streets of Barcelona in the region’s national day to demand the right to vote on independence from Spain. The demonstrators...
Cameron, Queen voice concern: 51% of Scottish in favor of independence The latest opinion poll put the pro-independence movement in the lead for the first time, with 51 percent voicing their support just 11 days before the referendum on the...
In line with Turkish political tradition, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held one of his first visits abroad to Azerbaijan to further bilateral relations based on history, brotherhood and strategic cooperation With a move to show Turkey’s continued support to Azerbaijan,...
Iraqi forces have reached the besieged town of Amerli in northern Iraq, where thousands have been trapped by jihadists, military officials say. The apparent breakthrough comes after the US carried out air strikes overnight on Islamic State (IS) positions near...
Iraqi forces claim marked advance towards Amerli, town under Islamic State siege for over a month Iraqi security forces and Shiite militiamen launched a major operation on Saturday to break the more than two-month siege of a Shiite Turkmen town,...
BAGHDAD // All 34 villages around Amerli are under the control of Islamist militants but the small town of Turkmen is holding out in one of the longest and most dramatic sieges of Iraq’s current conflict. In the searing summer...
A court in Baku has sentenced two Azerbaijani men to life in prison for spying for Iran. Hafiz Valiyev and Agamir Agamirov were officially found guilty of high treason on August 1 and sentenced the same day. Investigators say they...
The U.S. military launched two rounds of airstrikes Friday in northwestern Iraq, using drones and fighter jets. Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said remotely piloted aircraft Friday struck Islamic State militants near Irbil. He said fighter planes later dropped...
An exile Uyghur leader has claimed that at least 2,000 ethnic minority Uyghurs may have been killed by Chinese security forces following riots last week in a restive county in China’s western Xinjiang region, far more than reported by the...
The details of the intensive firefights between the Azerbaijani and Armenian armed forces in the direction of Terter region on the night of August 2 have become known. The servicemen, who are responsible for the defense of this territory,...
Armenian armed forces have made an attempt of diversion on different sections of the front. 8 Azerbaijani soldiers were killed as a result of fierce fire exchange. All the same, the Armenian public was fluttered by the reports of Armenian...
Report says men with knives attack police station in western region, leading to civilian casualties and deadly response. Dozens of people have been killed and injured in an attack in China’s far western Xinjiang region, home to the mainly Muslim...
Araz News: Prominent Iraqi Turkmen Figure,researcher and writer Sadun KÖPRÜLÜ has passed away in Ankara. The former Iraqi Turkmen Front’s reprehensive in Turkey was imprisoned 17 years in Iraq’s prisons in the time of ousted dictator Saddam Hussein. ANRO’s Media...
