MIDDLE EAST

Armenia asks Moscow for help amid Nagorno-Karabakh fighting

6:45 pm October 31, 2020

Yerevan: Armenia’s leader urged Russia Saturday to consider providing security assistance to end the fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh, the biggest escalation in the decades-long conflict between his country and Azerbaijan. Following more than a month of intense fighting in which Azerbaijani troops forged into the separatist territory, Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian asked Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to quickly discuss possible security aid to his […]

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US allows Jerusalem-born citizens to put Israel on passports

11:48 pm October 29, 2020

Jerusalem: The United States will allow Americans born in disputed Jerusalem to list Israel as their place of birth on passports and other documents, according to a new policy announced Thursday. The move came a day after the United States amended science accords signed with Israel to apply to institutions in the occupied West Bank. The changes, […]

Afghan officials: 8 inmates dead after prison riot in Herat

3:32 pm October 29, 2020

Kabul: Rioting at a prison in western Afghanistan has left at least eight inmates dead, provincial officials said Thursday. The violence erupted on Wednesday night at the prison in the city of Herat, the capital of western Herat province, according to Mohammad Rafiq Shirzai, a spokesman for the provincial health department. He said 12 others — eight inmates and […]

New deaths as fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh keeps flaring

7:02 pm October 28, 2020

Yerevan: Deadly fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh showed no signs of abating Wednesday despite a US-brokered cease-fire that took force just two days ago and has so far failed to halt the flare-up of a decades-old conflict. Nagorno-Karabakh officials said Azerbaijani forces hit Stepanakert, the region’s capital, and the nearby town of Shushi with the Smerch long-range multiple rocket […]

Turkey: US consulate employee receives 5-year jail term

12:11 am October 28, 2020

Ankara : A Turkish court on Tuesday convicted a local employee of the US Consulate in Istanbul of aiding a terrorist organisation and sentenced him to five years and two months in prison, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The Istanbul court found Mete Canturk, a Consulate security officer, guilty of “knowingly and willingly” helping […]