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Ongoing operations have forced nearly 602 villages in Duhok province to evacuate, with villagers fleeing in fear of Turkish army shelling that has also scorched their farmland. [Photo by CPT Iraqi Kurdistan on the X platform] The Turkish military has advanced 15 kilometers deep into Iraqi Kurdistan, targeting the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) and forcing […]

The Israeli military ordered the “Hannibal Directive” on 7 October, according to a report in the Israeli media on Sunday. The “Hannibal Directive” is a military protocol where Israeli soldiers would kill captives and their captors to stop enemies from being able to use Israeli citizens as bargaining chips. The directive dates back to the

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said he might invite his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad to Turkey “at any moment”, in a sign of reconciliation after the 2011 war broke ties between Ankara and Damascus. Erdogan’s comments come after tensions have mounted over the past week after a mob went on the rampage, vandalising businesses

Former British prime minister Tony Blair called for Keir Starmer to be tough on immigration, crime and ‘wokeism’ in a piece for The Sunday Times [Getty] Former Labour prime minister Tony Blair made an early intervention in British politics on Sunday after Keir Starmer’s landslide election victory, urging him to have a “plan to control

Biden continues his campaign, despite growing calls for him to step down. [Getty] Following his poor debate performance against Donald Trump just over a week ago, US President Joe Biden has been trying to reassure the American public that he is fit for a second term in office. However, his efforts have only raised more

An outspoken Iranian lawyer who has publicly criticized how the government handled the 2022 protests has been arrested, state media reported Sunday. The unrest at the time followed the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini who was detained by the police for allegedly not properly wearing her mandatory hijab. Her death triggered massive protests that quickly

Islamophobic attacks on mosques in Germany have increased after Israel’s war on Gaza [GETTY] The secretary-general of the Turkish-Islamic Union for Religious Affairs (DİTİB) is calling on the German public and politicians to take action on the rising anti-Muslim attacks on Turkish mosques in the country. The DITIB oversees over 800 mosques in Germany, home

Hundreds of Kenyans gathered Sunday in the capital Nairobi for a memorial concert following deadly protests over tax hikes that saw the country’s leader scrap a controversial finance bill. The initially peaceful rallies mostly led by Gen-Z spiralled into violence that left 39 people dead, rights groups have said, and saw President William Ruto reject

Projections based on vote samples predicted France’s left-wing New Popular Front would take between 172 and 215 seats [PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP/Getty-archive] A loose alliance of French left-wing parties thrown together for snap elections was on course Sunday to become the biggest parliamentary bloc and beat the far right, according to shock projected results. The New Popular

France Unbowed’s Jean-Luc Mélenchon is a well-known leftist figure [SAMEER AL-DOUMY/AFP/Getty] The French left is “ready to govern”, leftist figurehead Jean-Luc Mélenchon said on Sunday, after predictions showed a broad left-wing alliance could be the largest group in parliament despite previous expectations the far right would win. “Our people have clearly rejected the worst-case scenario,”