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ASTANA – The next round of Astana talks on the crisis in Syria could be held in late November or early December in Kazakhstan’s Nur Sultan, Kazakh Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Aibek Smadiyarov, said. “We have not yet received an official note from the guarantor states [Russia, Iran and Turkey] on …

ANKARA – For a 12-day multinational maritime exercise, Pakistan’s Navy ship Alamgir arrived in Turkey. Pakistan Navy said in a statement that the ship entered the Aknaz Naval Base in the Aegean Sea off the coast of Mugla. Capt. Muhammad Akram said it will participate in the DoğuAkdeniz-19 (Eastern Mediterranean) …

ANKARA – Turkey has deported an American foreign fighter and will soon deport another seven Germans, a spokesman for the interior ministry was quoted as saying on Monday after state media said Ankara began repatriation of captured ISIS militants. Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu had warned last week that Ankara …

ANKARA – Turkey has captured the older sister of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, in north-western Syria, Turkish officials said Tuesday. Reuters and AP quoted a senior official as saying that Rasmiya Awad, 65, was found during a raid on November 4 near the Turkish-controlled town of Azaz, in Aleppo Province. The …

ANKARA – Turkey rejected a resolution adopted by the US House of Representatives on Armenian claims, the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday. “We reject resolution HR 296” Asserting the US Armenian Genocide Record “adopted today by the US House of Representatives to express the US’s meaning,” the ministry said …

BRUSSELS – Northern Syria should be controlled by international forces, Germany has told NATO, after Turkey and Russia carved up the region for themselves. “The Sochi Agreement … does not provide the basis for a political solution in the long run,” German defense minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer told press at a …

BAGHDAD – US troops withdrawing from north-eastern Syria to Iraq are “transiting” and leave the country in four weeks, the Iraqi Defense Minister said Wednesday. Najah al-Shammari made the remarks to the Associated Press after a meeting in Baghdad with US Secretary of Defence Mark Esper, who arrived at a …

WASHINGTON – While US President Donald Trump insists that he is bringing Americans home to “endless wars” in the Middle East, his Pentagon leader said that all US troops leaving Syria would go to the west of the country, Iraq and that the US military would continue its operations against …

ANKARA – Turkey has agreed to a ceasefire in northern Syria, to let Kurdish-led forces withdraw, at a meeting between US Vice-President Mike Pence and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Under the terms of the deal, all fighting will pause for five days, and Washington will help the withdrawal of …

DAMASCUS – Russia warned it would prevent Turkey from attacking Syrian troops after the US pulled out of an imminent clash between rival factions in the war-torn country. Alexander Lavrentiev, special envoy of the Kremlin in Syria, played down the danger of a clash between the Turkish and Syrian armies. …