PanARMENIAN.Net – Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in a phone call overnight to act together regarding the Islamic State controlled Syrian towns of al-Bab and Raqqa, Turkish presidential sources said on Wednesday, February 8, according to Reuters. The two leaders discussed issues including a safe zone in Syria, the […]
With the latest input from Bangladesh, it has now dawned upon Indian security agencies that the radicalization of the Rohingya migrants is happening at a faster pace and on a scale much larger than what they had earlier anticipated. New Delhi (Sputnik) — Bangladeshi authorities have alerted India’s security agencies that a splinter group of […]
Afghan officials are working to reach remote villages after avalanches and heavy snow killed at least 119 people around the country. Officials said a storm dumped as much as 2 meters of snow on many areas of Afghanistan over the weekend. Wais Ahmad Barmak, minister for disaster management, said on February 6 that at least […]
PanARMENIAN.Net – Peace talks between the Philippine government and communist rebels to end nearly five decades of conflict are still possible even though the president has ordered “all-out war”, the defence minister said on Tuesday, February 7, according to Reuters. President Rodrigo Duterte announced on the weekend the government was scrapping a ceasefire with the […]
A 3-year-old girl has been miraculously saved by passersby in China after she fell into the gap between a train and a platform while her accompanying adult was distracted by the scenes in the train carriage. The incident happened in the city of Xining, the capital of China’s Qinghai province. A video shows the train […]
The American move to block citizens of seven Muslim countries from entering the United States over security concerns could harm counter-terrorism efforts, Indonesia’s foreign ministry said this week, while Malaysia sought clarification about how the policy would affect Malaysians. But both Southeast Asian countries are not among those affected by the ban. An executive order […]
A Saudi Arabian diplomat has been sentenced to four strokes of a cane and more than 26 months in prison for molesting a hotel intern in Singapore. Bander Yahya A. Alzahrani, 39, an attache to the Saudi Embassy in Beijing, was vacationing with his wife and three children in 2016. They were staying at the […]
Six men arrested in Northeast Malaysia last month on suspicion of possessing bomb-making materials were involved in a bomb-plot targeting Thailand’s insurgency-wracked Deep South, Thai security officials said Thursday. Three of the six who were arrested on Jan. 15 in Pasir Mas in Kelantan state – just across the border from the Deep South – […]
