- Moscow, Russia -- Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states have invited observers from Saudi Arabia, Iran, China and Mongolia...
China and Mongolia are the other two countries invited to monitor the Combat Brotherhood-2023 drills in Belarus, CSTO Joint Staff Chief Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov said.
Combat Brotherhood, a joint operational and strategic exercise, will be held in Belarus on September 1-6.
- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to visit Russia "soon" for talks with Vladimir Putin on reviving a deal to...
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that a meeting was being prepared "intensively", without giving a time or place for the talks.
Erdogan has used his good relations with Russia and Ukraine to try to bring the two sides into formal peace talks.
- Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in the last 12 years of civil war in Syria, primarily targeting Iran-backed...
Syrian transport ministry official said the damage centred on the only functioning runway
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes also targeted an adjacent military airport
- The Republican delegation comprising French Hill, Ben Cline and Scott Fitzgerald entered Syria from Turkey through the Bab al-Salama border...
The Congress members met with Raed Saleh, the director of the White Helmets rescue group
The meeting stressed "the importance of continuing cross-border aid in light of the growing humanitarian needs"
- Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah said that Najla al-Mangoush, the foreign minister, has been temporarily suspended and will be subject to...
Although the Libyan foreign ministry called the meeting a chance encounter, news of it led to street protests in many Libyan cities
Israel has managed to normalize relations with several Arab countries in recent years as part of US-backed deal
- Cairo, Egypt - Egypt announced on Sunday that negotiations had resumed over Ethiopia's controversial mega-dam, after agreeing last month to reach...
The massive $4.2-billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been at the center of a regional dispute ever since Ethiopia broke ground on the project in 2011
For years at loggerheads over the issue, Egyptian President al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had agreed in July to finalize a deal within four months
- TEHRAN, IRAN - A number of European countries have asked to purchase Iran’s unmanned aerial vehicles, the spokesperson for the...
A spokesperson for the Iranian Defense Ministry said Tehran is prepared to export military drones after fulfilling its domestic needs,
Political and security considerations will be taken into consideration before finalizing such deals, the spokesperson added.
- TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran exported $7.2 billion worth of products to West Asian countries in the first four months of...
Comprehensive strategic five-year plans have been defined for the West Asian countries with a focus on trade infrastructure.
The plans include organizing and development of transportation platforms, banking exchanges, customs and standards.
- Paris, France - Silicon Valley's favorite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of...
Silicon Valley's favorite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction.
But increasingly vocal critics are warning that the philosophy is dangerous, and the obsession with extinction distracts from real problems associated with AI like data theft.
- Villagers and environmental activists have been locked in clashes with the police in the southwestern Mugla province since their plant...
An AFP tour of five Turkish coal-fired power plant villages witnessed the high human cost of relying on the outdated, highly polluting energy source.
Turkey was the last among the G20 economies to ratify the Paris Climate Accords, doing so only after the environment became a top issue in the wake of deadly wildfires.





















