Several media reported that 33 Turkish service members were killed in a Syrian airstrike on the Greater Idlib region on 27 February 2020. Valisi Dogan, governor of the southern Turkish province of Hatay said that many other service members were injured in the Syrian airstrikes. Hatay is the Turkish province bordering Idlib. According to anti-government…
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The death toll has risen to 27 in the deadliest violence, an earshot away from the nerve center of the government of India in the Indian capital New Delhi, hit by the worst religious violence in decades with police accused of partisanship. More than 200 others have been grievously injured in three days of violence…
Read moreUS President’s last visit to India was in March 2000 (Prez Clinton). Since then India-US relations have warmed politically, economically and strategically. But niggling differences remain, particularly over trade. Ahead of US President Donald Trump’s first official visit to India, listed are the following main areas of agreement and discord between USA & India. Being…
Read moreAccording to Syrian government sources, the Syrian Army has resumed offensive operations in southern Idlib. That offensive is helping the government forces in liberating several villages. On 22 February 2020, the Ministry of Transport announced that Damascus-Aleppo international M5 highway was officially opened to traffic. Meanwhile, several media reported on 23 February 2020 that the…
Read moreOn 23 February 2020, Turkey announced that it would “temporarily” close its land border with Iran as fear grows over an increase of new coronavirus infections. Turkish Health Minister Fahrettin Koca told to reporters, “We have decided to shut the land border temporarily after an increase in the number of cases in our neighbor Iran.”…
Read moreSeveral media reported on 22 February 2019 that the Taliban movement waged attacks in Afghan provinces of Paktia and Balkh. Recently, it was also reported in several western media that Taliban agreed on a seven-day ‘violence reduction’ for signing a peace deal with the US. Abdullah Hasrat, a spokesman for the Paktia governor said in…
Read moreOn 21 February 2020, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that Turkey would not withdraw from Idlib Province as long as Syrian government forces continue to press on with their ‘violent onslaught’. He said, “According to the latest data, we have neutralised 150 ‘regime elements’, destroyed 12 tanks, three armoured vehicles, 14 howitzers and two…
Read moreIndia’s Muslims should have been shipped to Pakistan at the time of partition in 1947, declared Giriraj Singh, an Indian minister of Animal Husbandry, Dairy and Fisheries. He also argued that the move would have saved the country from a lot of trouble. He said, widespread unrest over two contentious laws – the Citizenship Amendment…
Read moreBacked by Turkish military forces, anti-government forces, on 20 February 2020, has launched an operation against the Syrian government forces in Idlib. Several media have reported that heavy fighting is taking place in the area. Anti-government forces of Syria‚ who are fighting to re-take areas earlier captured by the government forces, entered Nairab town of…
Read moreAccording to officials, on 20 February 2020, a 43-year-old German man, who was reportedly motivated by extreme right and racist belief, shot and killed nine people at several locations in a Frankfurt suburb overnight. A Turkish media reported that five of the victims were Turkish citizens. An association of Kurds in Germany said in a…
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