Saudi Crown Prince, US Secretary of Defense discuss troop deployment
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman received a phone call on Wednesday from the US Secretary of Defense during which they discussed ongoing arrangements to send US troops of a More »
Saudi Energy Minister confirms restoration of Kingdom’s gas production capacity
:: Saudi Arabia’s Minister of Energy confirmed on Wednesday the restoration of production capacity, affirming the Kingdom’s position as a reliable energy supplier in the global market. The energy minister, Prince Abdulaziz More »
Egypt calls Erdogan statements ‘ironic,’ accuses Turkey of sponsoring terrorism
:: Egypt’s foreign ministry spokesman, Ahmed Hafez, slammed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s statements at the UN General Assembly this week where he urged the UN to “handle the suspicious death of More »
Saudi Crown Prince: Attacks are test of int’l resolve against destructive acts
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said on Wednesday that the attacks on Saudi Aramco oil facilities are a test of international resolve in the face of destructive acts that More »
Saudi Crown Prince says attacks on oil facilities are a ‘dangerous escalation’
:: Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said the recent attacks on Saudi Aramco facilities represented a “dangerous escalation not only toward the Kingdom but also the entire world.” The Crown More »
Tag Archives: PKK
Deadly PKK bomb attack targets Turkish police station
Kurdish rebels detonated a car bomb at a police station in southeastern Turkey, then attacked it with rocket launchers and firearms, killing five people, including civilians, the governor’s office said Thursday. Thirty-nine other people were injured, reports said. The attack
Turkish forces kill 32 Kurdish militants as conflict escalates: Sources
Security forces killed 32 Kurdish militants in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast this weekend, the army and security sources said on Sunday, escalating a conflict reignited by the collapse of a two-year ceasefire last summer. It was one of the bloodiest
Rights group: 162 civilians have died in Turkey conflict
A Turkish human rights group says as many as 162 civilians have died since August, caught up in the increased fighting between government forces and Kurdish rebels in urban districts. The Turkish Human Rights Foundation said late Saturday that 32
Turkish forces kill 18 Kurdish rebels: army
Turkish security forces killed 18 militants from the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) as they battled the rebels in curfew-hit towns in the country’s troubled southeast, the army said Saturday. Sixteen were killed in the Cizre district of Sirnak province near
Turkish police raid offices of Kurdish party in Istanbul
Turkish police on Friday raided the offices of the main pro-Kurdish party in central Istanbul, making arrests and seizing documents. Riot police blocked the entry to the street where the Beyoglu district office of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is
Baby killed in clashes between Turkish forces, Kurdish rebels
A three-month baby and her grandfather were killed in crossfire in clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants in the southeast, medics said on Sunday. The family’s house in the southeastern town of Cizre came under shelling on Friday
15,000 protest Turkey’s military crackdown on Kurdish rebels
Around 15,000 people marched in Dusseldorf on Saturday to protest against Turkey’s military crackdown against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels, local police said. The marchers, demonstrating on behalf of Germany’s federation of Kurdish groups, Nav-Dem, also slammed the European Union
Armed Kurdish group claims Turkey airport blast
An armed Kurdish group on Saturday claimed an explosion near a plane at Istanbul’s second international airport which killed a female cleaner and wounded another. “We … claim the attack carried by mortar bombs at Istanbul’s Sabiha Gokcen airport,” on
Turkish civilians stuck in urban war zone in southeast
Tens of thousands of civilians in southeast Turkey have been caught in the middle as government forces and Kurdish militants battle it out in urban areas – violence that has shattered hopes of reviving peace talks. Turkish security forces launched
Turkish army: clash with Kurdish fighters kills seven
Turkish troops killed six Kurdish militants in a clash in the restive southeast and one of three soldiers wounded in the firefight died in hospital, the armed forces said in a statement on Friday. Since a two-year ceasefire between Kurdistan
Turkish forces clash with PKK as curfews expanded
The Turkish army on Monday engaged in intense clashes with Kurdish militants as the military pressed on with one of its biggest recent domestic operations and controversial curfew orders were expanded to a new area in the Kurdish-dominated southeast. The
Hundreds protest against Turkey’s anti-PKK offensive
Turkish police fired tear gas to disperse several hundred protesters in Istanbul’s main Taksim square demonstrating against security operations and curfews in the southeast, Reuters witnesses said on Sunday. Dozens of riot police with protective gear chased protesters into side
Turkey kills 54 Kurdish militants in major crackdown
Turkish security forces have killed 54 Kurdish militants during a major operation to root out Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) rebels from two urban centres, official media said on Friday. “Fifty-four terrorists have been neutralised” in in the southeastern towns of
Turkish forces kill 25 PKK militants in operation
Turkish security forces have killed 25 Kurdish militants this week as they battle suspected members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) inside two flashpoint towns, security sources said on Thursday. The operations conducted inside the towns of Cizre and
Clashes in southeast Turkey kill seven, new curfews declared
Seven people were killed in clashes with security forces in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, officials said on Monday, as authorities declared curfews across the restive region. The clashes are the latest in months of violence following the collapse of a
Turkey lifts, then reimposes curfew in battered Kurdish city
The Turkish authorities on Friday lifted a nine-day curfew in a key district in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir but then promptly reimposed the measure. The local authorities had kept the curfew in place since December 2 in the central
Three Turkish security officers killed in clashes with Kurd militants
Three members of the Turkish security forces were killed on Saturday in clashes with militants in Turkey’s mainly Kurdish southeast, security forces said. Hundreds of people have died since the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) abandoned its two-and-a-half-year ceasefire in July
Female Kurdish militant killed in police raid in Istanbul: reports
A female suspected member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was killed on Friday in Istanbul in a police operation against militants suspected to be planning suicide attacks, reports said. Counter-terrorism police raided a home in Istanbul’s Sancaktepe district
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