Turkey has been following a new geopolitical strategy by building a defence line from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, and from Libya to Somalia, wrote foreign policy analyst Mehmet A. Kancı for the state-run Anadolu Agency on Tuesday. The new strategy follows the orders Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, he

Bundles of khat (photo credit: SS BY-SA 3.0, by Abalg, Wikimedia Commons) Criminals pay travelers to take suitcases full of leaves abroad, but European countries have increasingly been punishing those they catch Israeli organized crime groups are paying travelers to smuggle khat leaves to European countries, leading to dozens of Israelis being arrested, and some

Senators condemn ‘sham’ trial of Saudi Kingdom, criticize handling of Khashoggi murder case Several U.S. lawmakers have condemned the “sham” Saudi trial and court verdicts over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi last year in Istanbul. Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post and a U.S. resident, was murdered after entering the Saudi Consulate in

Credit: Reuters Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2019 U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media his Mar-a-Lago resort. U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday brushed off North Korea’s warning of a “Christmas gift”, saying the United States would “deal with it very successfully,” amid U.S. concerns that Pyongyang might be preparing a long-range missile test. “We’ll

Demonstrators gesture and shout slogans during a protest against a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, December 24, 2019. REUTERS/Danish Siddiqui Indian authorities stepped up security and shut down the internet in various places on Tuesday while members of the ruling party planned marches backing a new citizenship law even though nationwide protests against

USAID food aid being unloaded at Mombasa port. Kenya has received food aid valued at approximately Sh340 million from the United States government. Kenya has received food aid valued at approximately Sh340 million from the United States government in support of its efforts to address food insecurity in the country. The country has been experiencing

This photo provided by the French Defense Ministry communication center and taken Tuesday Dec. 17, 2019, shows French soldiers loading a French Reaper drone with two GBU 12 missiles on Niamey airbase, Niger. France’s defense ministry said Monday that it had carried out its first armed drone strike, killing seven Islamic extremists in central Mali

Photo/ Reuters Israel opposes an accord signed last month between Libya and Turkey mapping out maritime boundaries in the eastern Mediterranean, but the deal was unlikely to lead to a conflict with Turkey, Israel’s foreign minister said on Monday. The deal between Ankara and Tripoli carves out a corridor of maritime boundaries between Libya and

Photo/ Reuters Saudi Arabia’s closed-door trial on the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi sparked global outrage after a Saudi court cleared two former top aides to Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) linked to the murder plot. While five of the 11 unnamed individuals indicted in the case were sentenced to death and three

Photo/Reuters Egypt’s former military chief-of-staff Sami Anan was released from detention on Sunday almost two years after his arrest following his plans to compete in the 2018 presidential election, his office manager said on Twitter. Anan, now at home according to the manager, was held in a military prison until he suffered a stroke in