30,000 Syrians who have been granted Turkish citizenship are allowed to vote for the Turkish presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. That is what Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday, reports the broadcaster NTV.
The number of illegal migrants arriving in Spain via the Mediterranean Sea increased in May to 3,400, more than three times as much as in April. In the first five months of the year, there were 8200, a large doubling compared to a year ago.
The Public Prosecution Service suspects a wholesaler of chemicals in Rotterdam from illegally exporting acetone to Syria. That confirms the OM. Acetone can be used as raw material in the production of chemical weapons.
Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates support Jordan with an aid package worth around $ 2.5 billion (more than EUR 2.1 billion). This was agreed by the leaders of the countries during consultations in Mecca about the 'economic crisis' in Jordan, reports the Saudi state press agency SPA.
A total of 38 people were killed in air attacks on a village in north-western Syria. This is reported by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which is based in the United Kingdom, which speaks of a bloodbath.
Russian President Vladimir Putin answered questions on numerous domestic and international issues during his annual question show Thursday. Russians sent about 2 million questions this year, reports Russian media.
A special unit of the Belgian police has arrested a man who may have played a role in the radicalization of Benjamin Herman, the shooter who shot two agents and a student last week in Liège. Fouad B. was arrested in the Walloon city of Verviers. According to Belgian media, his name is on the list of IS fighters and recruiters in Belgium.
Heavy prison sentences for a gang of people smugglers in Greece. Two Afghans and a Syrian are sentenced to no less than 360 years in prison on Crete. An Iraqi henchman was given 357 years in prison. They must each also pay a million euro fine. The level of the penalty is especially symbolic, because they have to be released after 25 years.
The US-led international coalition against the Islamic State (IS) terrorist movement has, without worrying about the residents, tore down the city of Raqqa for large parts. Human rights organization Amnesty International concludes this after research in 42 places in the ruins of the Syrian city and after conversations with survivors.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says he plans to visit North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. That is what North Korean state media report. It may be the first meeting between Kim and another head of state in Pyongyang.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is going to Europe next week to talk with leaders about the threat Iran would pose. On Monday he will speak with Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin and in the evening he will go to Paris for consultation with the French president Emmanuel Macron.
The ruler of the autonomous republic of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadirov, wants to identify Russian children by means of DNA material and to bring them to Russia from the Middle East. The Moscow Times has reported that Kadirov said on social media that he is going to collect dna material in his Caucasian republic on a large scale to establish the kinship of children in Syria and Iraq.
Two Belgian widows of killed IS fighters in Syria challenge the Belgian Minister of Justice to bring their underage children to Belgium. Child Focus, the foundation for missing and sexually exploited children, joins the summons, the Flemish TV channel VRT reports.
Four Russian soldiers were killed in the east of Syria when rebels attacked an artillery arrangement of the Syrian army. According to the Russian Ministry of Defense, 43 rebels also died.
After Jerusalem it is now time for the Golan Heights. Israel is convinced that in the short term the US will also first recognize the area that the country conquered on Syria in 1967 and later annexed it as part of Israel. The Jewish state is currently, with Donald Trump as president, the king too rich.
Combat devices of the US-led coalition in Syria have attacked two positions of the Syrian army in the eastern Syrian desert. This is reported by the Syrian state media and Hezbollah's military media.
At least 30 Syrian soldiers and Iran-backed militias have been killed in an attack by Islamic State (IS) fighters at a military post. The attack was at the ancient city of Palmyra in the east of Syria.
An Iraqi court sentenced a Belgian to death on Tuesday. Tarik Jadaoun, alias Abu Hamza al-Beljiki, would have fought for terrorist organization Islamic State. He also appeared in propaganda videos \u0026 # x27; s.
Israel says it was the first country in the world to carry out combat missions with the F-35. According to Israeli media, the head of the Air Force said that the fighter plane was deployed twice for attacks on various fronts.
Syrian forces have taken a former bulwark of IS jihadists on the southern edge of Damascus city center on Monday, according to Syrian state media. The government had previously rolled up a series of strongholds at Damascus. But on the south side of the capital was a stronghold in the hands of the Islamic State (IS). It concerns the neighborhoods al-Hajar al-Aswad and Mukhayam al-Yarmouk.
A group of Islamic State fighters was evacuated Sunday morning from the last rebellious stronghold near the Syrian capital Damascus. That reports the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
Angela Merkel and Vladimir Putin speak to each other in private in the Russian resort of Sochi. It is the first time since a year that the German Chancellor is in Russia. The two leaders talk about the ongoing civil war in Syria, in which Russia plays an important role as an ally of the regime.
The French police arrested two women in the investigation into the stabbing of last Saturday in Paris. They had contact with the French-Chechen offender of the stabbing and his friend who was arrested in Strasbourg.
The friend of Khamzat Azimov, who attacked people on the street with a knife and stabbed a victim in Paris on Saturday, remains in pre-trial detention, according to the Le Parisien newspaper. The 20-year-old Abdoul Hakim A. was arrested in Strasbourg, where the perpetrator also lived with his family for several years.
The Turkish authorities have arrested dozens of foreigners who would have ties with the terrorist organization IS. Anti-terrorist units in Istanbul met at the same time buildings in thirteen districts, say sources within the police against the Turkish state press agency Anadolu.
In France there is silence before the storm. According to terrorist Thibault de Montbrial, the country may be cleaning its breast for attacks by jihadists returning from Syria and Iraq, and terrorists released from prison in the coming years.
The attack at the police headquarters in Surabaya was committed by a five-person family. According to the police, the attackers arrived on two motorbikes at a checkpoint Monday, where they blew themselves up. One of the children of the family would have survived the explosion.
Once again, a known member of the security services made an attack in France. Khamzat Azimov made one fatal victim on Saturday night in Paris and injured four others. The 20-year-old Frenchman of Chechen origin was disabled by a police officer.
All perpetrators of the attacks on three churches in Indonesia yesterday came from the same family. At least thirteen people died and dozens were injured in the bloodbath in Surabaya, the second largest city in the country.
Iran condemns the Israeli attacks on Syria and says that its ally has the full right to defend itself against this aggression. 'The international community stirs it up by saying nothing about it', the spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry Bahram Qasemi added on TV on Friday.
