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Mexico starts administering Russia's Sputnik V vaccine

Mexico starts administering Russia's Sputnik V vaccine

Mexican authorities administered their first shots of Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine Wednesday to residents of the capital, with people lining up at a vaccination station on the city’s south side, eager to get any protection they …

Cavusoglu slams West for double standards on terrorism

Cavusoglu slams West for double standards on terrorism

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu criticized Western countries over their "double standards" and "selective approach" to terrorism, a day after 13 Turkish citizens held hostage by the PKK were brutally executed in …

15 sailors abducted by pirates arrive in Turkey after rescue

15 sailors abducted by pirates arrive in Turkey after rescue

Fifteen Turkish sailors arrived in Istanbul early Sunday after being abducted by pirates off the coast of Nigeria, Daily Sabah reports.  The sailors were escorted by security forces early Saturday to the Turkish Embassy in Abuja, …

Turkey neutralizes 10 PKK terrorists in northern Iraq

Turkey neutralizes 10 PKK terrorists in northern Iraq

Turkish security forces neutralized at least 10 PKK terrorists in an air operation in northern Iraq, according to the Turkish National Defense Ministry. "As a result of the coordination between the Turkish Armed Forces and National …

41 FETO terror suspects nabbed across Turkey

41 FETO terror suspects nabbed across Turkey

Turkish security units on Friday arrested 41 suspects linked to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup in Turkey, Anadolu agency reports. A total of 66 suspects in the Gendarmerie Command …

Number of Baghdad terrorist attack victims rises to 35

Number of Baghdad terrorist attack victims rises to 35

The number of people killed in a terrorist attack in the center of Baghdad on Thursday has risen to 35, the Al Arabiya TV channel informed, citing Iraqi sources, adding that about 100 people have been injured. The channel informed …

Terrorists still pose threat in Syria, Putin says

Terrorists still pose threat in Syria, Putin says

Militants in Syria still pose a terrorist threat, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in the film "No room for error. Christmas visit to Damascus", a fragment of which was shown on the air of the Russia-1 TV channel. …

2 kids among 5 killed by car bomb at Syrian market

2 kids among 5 killed by car bomb at Syrian market

A car bomb near a vegetable market in northeastern Syria killed five people including children on Saturday in the Turkish-held border town of Ras al-Ain, a war monitor said, Free Malaysia Today reported. At least three of the victims …

Turkish police detains 35 ISIS suspects in Ankara

Turkish police detains 35 ISIS suspects in Ankara

Turkish police and intelligence service arrested 35 Iraqi nationals in the capital Ankara on Tuesday over their alleged links to the ISIS terror group (banned in Russia), according to security sources. The provincial police in Ankara …

Seven ISIS suspects arrested in central Turkey

Seven ISIS suspects arrested in central Turkey

Seven people with suspected links to the ISIS terror group (banned in Russia) were arrested in central Turkey on Monday, according to security sources. Local gendarmerie forces in the Kayseri province raided five addresses in the …

At least 9 dead as car bomb rocks Afghanistan's capital Kabul

At least 9 dead as car bomb rocks Afghanistan's capital Kabul

A car bomb blast that rocked Afghanistan's capital Sunday morning killed at least nine people, according to the Afghan Interior Ministry, NBC News reports. Interior Minister Masoud Andarabi told reporters at the site of the …

Turkish police detain 18 ISIS terror suspects

Turkish police detain 18 ISIS terror suspects

A total of 18 ISIS (a terrorist group banned in Russia) linked suspects were detained early Wednesday in an operation against the terrorist group in the Turkish metropolis of Istanbul. Teams of the Istanbul police’s …

Iran had advance knowledge of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh killing?

Iran had advance knowledge of Mohsen Fakhrizadeh killing?

Iranian intelligence services did not rule out the possible killing of nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, but didn't take it seriously, secretary of the country’s Supreme National Security Council Ali Shamkhani said. …

Iran says three border guards killed by ‘terrorists’

Iran says three border guards killed by ‘terrorists’

Three Iranian border guards were killed and two others wounded in a firefight with “terrorists” in the northwest of the country, Macau Business reports citing state news agency IRNA. “Armed counter-revolutionary …

Gunmen kill 3 Iranian guards near Turkish border

Gunmen kill 3 Iranian guards near Turkish border

Unknown gunmen on Friday killed three Iranian border guards near the country’s northwestern border with Turkey, The Washington Post reports citing Iran’s state media. The official IRNA news agency said the three were killed …

Turkish forces 'neutralize' 2 PKK/YPG terrorists

Turkish forces 'neutralize' 2 PKK/YPG terrorists

Turkish security forces neutralized two PKK terrorists in cross-border operations in northern Iraq and northern Syria, the National Defense Ministry announced on Friday, Anadolu agency reports. One PKK terrorist, who was plotting an …

Turkish police arrest 43 over FETO terror links

Turkish police arrest 43 over FETO terror links

Police in Turkey nabbed 43 people over their suspected links to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group behind the 2016 defeated coup, security sources said on Thursday, Anadolu agency reports. Prosecutors in Istanbul had …