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Civilians in Madaya, a rebel-held town in Syria, finally saw the arrival of four trucks carrying relief aids on Monday. The inter-agency humanitarian aid is part of a deal concluded recently between the government and rebels to alleviate the suffering of thousands of starved people. Madaya, sitting in north of the capital Damascus, is among the three besieged towns where the trucks must simultaneously enter according to the deal. Madaya is held by rebels and […]
German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday (January 11) that Europe was “vulnerable” in the refugee crisis because it was not yet in control of the situation to the extent that it would like to be. “Now all of a sudden we are facing the challenge that refugees are coming to Europe and we are vulnerable, as we see, because we do not yet have the order, the control, that we would like to have,” […]
Iraq said on Monday (January 11) that its air force targeted and destroyed Islamic State targets in the provinces of Salahuddin and Anbar. A statement by the Ministry of Defence said that Iraqi fighter jets conducted air strikes against the Islamic State near and in the city of Falluja in Anbar province. The statement did not say when the air strikes were carried out, but it said that it caused Islamic State heavy losses in […]
An interview that Hollywood star Sean Penn conducted with Mexican Joaquin “Chapo” Guzman late last year helped Mexico’s government catch the world’s most wanted drug lord, sources said on Saturday (January 9). Guzman, the infamous boss of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was arrested in northwest Mexico on Friday (January 8) morning, and sent back to the prison he broke out of in July through a mile-long tunnel that led straight into his cell. Mexican authorities […]
Young Taiwan activists have occupied the parliament, scuffled with police, braved water canons, and staged mass sit-in protests in a wave of anti-China sentiment likely to turn the island’s politics on its head in the January 16 presidential election. Grievances range from a government-proposed agreement to open much of Taiwan’s service sector to mainland investment, to Taiwan’s entrance into the Beijing-backed Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and most recently to President Ma Ying-jeo’s meeting with China’s […]
In February, Denmark will send 120 soldiers to the west Iraqi province of Anbar to fight Islamic State (IS), along with their peers from other 30-plus countries. At the Hoeveltes Military Base, these soldiers have been getting together for training. And in a few weeks, this class will be fighting in a war zone — Anbar Province, 158 kilometers outside Baghdad and is actually inside IS-controled area. It is not far from the key city […]
Pakistan is trying to seek a balance between Saudi Arabia and Iran as senior Saudi officials paid recent visits to the country for support. Saudi Arabia’s foreign and defense ministers paid successive visits to Pakistan on January 7 and 10 respecitively. One of their important aims was to strengthen the two countries’ cooperation in the field of military security, especially on the issue of an Islamic anti-terrorism coalition. During the meeting, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz […]
China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection has been conducting emergency radiation monitoring in response to rising concerns over possible radioactive fallout from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s (DPRK) nuclear test last Wednesday. So far, at its 36 monitoring spots in the areas alongside the China-DPRK border, with some as close as 75 kilometers to the tremor site, no radioactive pollution has been detected. Hao Guofan, deputy director of the Jilin Provincial radiation environmental monitoring station, […]
Egypt’s new parliament convened on Sunday, in its first session in three years, signaling the end of the country’s political roadmap that started in 2013. For the first time since it was dissolved in 2012, and despite the daunting task, the 596 members of parliament were excited about their work. “For 40 years the Egyptian people have only expected limited services from the parliament members. Today they hope that they will have a strong foundation […]
The United States and its ally South Korea are in talks towards sending further strategic assets to the Korean peninsula, South Korea’s defence ministry said, a day after a U.S. B-52 bomber flew over South Korea in response to North Korea’s nuclear test last week. “The United States and South Korea are continuously and closely having discussions on additional deployment of strategic assets on the Korean peninsula,” Kim Min-seok, spokesman at the South Korean defence […]
Greek conservatives elected Kyriakos Mitsotakis as their new leader on Sunday (January 10), hoping he can revive their fortunes and challenge leftist Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, still popular despite opting for austerity. The conservative New Democracy party seeks to recover from its heavy election defeat in September, when Greeks re-elected Tsipras’ Syriza party amid capital controls on bank deposits and a harsh third bailout with the country’s foreign lenders. Mitsotakis, a 47-year reformist lawmaker and […]
South Korea said on Monday (January 11) that the government would impose tougher entry restrictions to a joint factory park run with North Korea, limiting its workforce staying in the park to “minimum necessary level” from Jan. 12. The spokesman at South Korea’s Unification Ministry told a news briefing that the government was taking stronger measures to protect its citizens after North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test last week. “Considering the safety of our […]
