19+ hour, 7+ min ago   (288+ words) Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan spoke with his Qatari and Syrian counterparts, Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdurrahman al-Thani and Assad Hussein Sheihbani over the phone on August 18 to discuss regional developments, the diplomatic sources have informed. According to sources, Fidan and…...

19+ hour, 7+ min ago   (354+ words) Jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu on Aug. 18 called on the court to allow him sufficient time to present his defense, as the trial continued on its second day. İmamoğlu criticized the court after it recorded that he had exercised his…...

15+ hour, 59+ min ago   (259+ words) Türkiye has strongly condemned Israeli airstrikes on the Abu Duhur military air base in Syria’s northwestern Idlib province, calling them a violation of the country’s territorial integrity and unity. The Foreign Ministry said the strikes were carried out early on…...

22+ hour, 34+ min ago   (336+ words) A Russian attack on a village in the Kharkiv region of northeast Ukraine killed 10 people, the local governor said on Aug. 18. The strike comes amid a surge in civilian deaths in the four-and-a-half-year war. Russian forces “carried out a rocket…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (766+ words) Andrea feels deep shame when she thinks about the loan she took out a year ago in Buenos Aires that she is now unable to repay.She’s not alone. Debt delinquency among Argentine families has tripled in a year, reaching…...

21+ hour, 22+ min ago   (380+ words) Türkiye will expand the role of its counterterrorism units to help tackle the country’s growing problem with organized crime syndicates, Interior Minister Mustafa Çiftçi said on Aug. 18. “From now on, our security units’ Counterterrorism Departments will also be tasked with…...

22+ hour, 7+ min ago   (415+ words) Israel has been carrying out incursions into Syrian territory since the December 2024 overthrow of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad, including sending troops into a U.N.-patrolled buffer zone that separatedIsraeli and Syrian forces in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights since 1974. It has also…...

22+ hour, 22+ min ago   (592+ words) Japan underlined on Aug. 18 the “critical” importance of security cooperation with the United States and South Korea, after President Donald Trump alarmed allies by scaling back military drills with Seoul while hailing his ties with Pyongyang. Trump abruptly announced on…...

1+ day, 2+ hour ago   (338+ words) ChatGPT-maker OpenAI will lease a massive new data center in the United States for 20 years, backed by a $105 billion financing commitment from Nvidia, according to a regulatory filing. The project will be built on the site of a former Cold…...

23+ hour, 40+ min ago   (270+ words) Pakistan will confer its “Sitara-i-Pakistan” civil award on Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, Defense Minister Yaşar Güler and Trade Minister Ömer Bolat in recognition of their contributions to relations between the two countries, Turkish media reported Aug. 18. Pakistani President Asif…...