Turkish Refugee Camp

By the time Turkey invaded northern Syria, in October, the Ain Issa refugee camp—twenty miles south of the Turkish border—resembled a small city. In recent years, some fourteen thousand people had moved there, displaced by ISIS, Russian and American air strikes, or the repressive regime of President Bashar al-Assad. The…

Turkey has pressed on with military campaigns against Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria despite the novel coronavirus compounding the troubles of local populations in both conflict-torn countries.Turkey has fought for decades with the insurgent Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), a group that has established positions in neighboring Iraq and Syria.…

Iran Press TV Thursday, 16 April 2020 9:52 AM Turkey has launched a deadly drone strike on a refugee camp in Iraq's northern semi-autonomous Kurdistan region, drawing angry reactions from Iraqi politicians of different factions, who censured the attack as a violation of the Arab country's sovereignty. The media office…

BAGHDAD (AP) — Turkish airstrikes targeting members of an outlawed Kurdish rebel group struck a refugee camp in northern Iraq and killed two refugee women, Iraqi authorities said Thursday.The strikes, which took place on Wednesday, were a violation of Iraq’s sovereignty, Iraq's Foreign Affairs Ministry said.The strikes on the Makhmour…

On April 7, 2018, horrifying images of an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria flooded the internet. Appalled, the media jumped on the story and resolutely pointed the finger at the regime of Assad. One week later, yesterday exactly two years ago, the United States, Britain and France launched rocket…

Jeff Garlin (L) and Larry David Getty Images In times of crisis, especially this one, we must be on our best behavior. We need to act with generosity, show respect, and act with compassion. And watch Larry David. What? Isn’t he the guy who does none of these things? He’s…

A refugee camp in Turkey is preparing to release tens of thousands of migrants sparking fears they will flee to EU member state Greece, satellite images suggest. Greek authorities have increased coastguard, air force and navy patrols in preparation for an influx of migrants.Satellite images taken in Turkey appear to show…

Today is the 100th day of 2020. There are 266 days left in the year. TODAY'S HIGHLIGHT837: Halley's Comet makes its closest known passage to Earth: 5 million kilometres (3 million miles).OTHER EVENTS641: An army commanded by Amr Ibn al-As conquers Egypt by seizing the Babylon fort in the Nile…

Statement to the press by Dr Hans Henri P. Kluge, WHO Regional Director for Europe8 April 2020, Copenhagen, DenmarkGood morning.The figuresToday, we are in the fifteenth week of our global battle with the novel coronavirus. The first cases in the European Region were reported on 24 January 2020. Given the…

6 April 2020 - Parties to Syria's brutal civil war, now in its tenth year, failed to abide by their obligations under international law to avoid attacks on hospitals and other civilian facilities that featured on the UN's so-called deconfliction list, Secretary-General António Guterres said on Monday. He made that…