The organisation, in a statement issued after its 46th meeting of the D-8 Commissioners, which held from Feb. 15 to February 16 in Istanbul, Turkey, expressed solidarity with the people and Government of the Republic of Turkey.
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UN Secretary General, António Guterres, said “today the United Nations is launching a $1 billion humanitarian appeal for the people of Türkiye suffering from the most devastating earthquakes to hit the country in a century.”
On February 6, an earthquake registering 7.8 on the Richter Scale hit Southern Turkey and Northern Syria.
As the scale of the disaster became ever more apparent, the death toll looked likely to rise considerably.
Another earthquake of 5.6 magnitude struck central Turkey on Tuesday, the European Mediterranean Seismological Centre said
“I have never felt anything like it in the 40 years I’ve lived,” said Erdem, a resident of the Turkish city of Gaziantep
Putin is holding meetings with Iran’s president and supreme leader, as well as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Federal prosecutors said this in Karlsruhe on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia on Monday suspended flights to and from nine countries as a precautionary measure to control and curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
Usoroh made the disclosure on Thursday in Jos at the opening of a one-day counter terrorism awareness seminar.
As trilateral US-Russia-Israel talks kicked off in Jerusalem on Tuesday, the Israeli prime minister said the three countries share a common objective of “the departure of all foreign forces from Syria who entered Syria after 2011” when the civil war broke out.
France is a leading member of the US-led coalition fighting militants in Syria and Iraq and has around 1,000 troops, including Special Forces based in the North of the country, deployed alongside local Kurdish and Arab forces.
The Paris Court of Assizes found Mohammed Reda Ouharani guilty of travelling to Syria to join Islamic State, undergoing military and religious training and participating in the group’s activities.
Japanese diplomats in Turkey confirmed the released man was Jumpei Yasuda, a 44-year-old freelancer who was reported to have been captured by an AlQaeda affiliate after entering Syria from Turkey in 2015.
Zarif posted the message in the midst of a trilateral meeting between Iran, Russia and Turkey focused on a looming battle against militants in Idlib province in northwest Syria.
Facebook said in a written report that of every 10,000 pieces of content viewed in the first quarter, an estimated 22 to 27 pieces contained graphic violence, up from an estimate of 16 to 19 late 2017.
Earlier, in his interview with Russian Presidential Aide for Defense Industry Cooperation, Vladimir Kozhin, he said that the issue of Russia supplying an S-300 to Syria was not yet on the agenda since Damascus “has everything it needs’’.
Hit among others were a scientific research facility in Damascus and Syrian army depots in the Homs area, state media said, and a Reuters witness said the Syrian capital was rocked by explosions as smoke rose into the sky.
This scenario is reminiscence of what happened in 1962 when America nearly went to war with Russia for placing nuclear missiles in Cuba. The stakes were high then and they’re high now. And somebody needs to back down.
He lambasted Moscow for standing by Syrian President Bashar Assad.