Indonesian authorities began evacuating people living on the volatile Mount Merapi volcano’s fertile slopes on Friday following an increase in volcanic activity. The head of Yogyakarta’s Vol... Read more

Spanish Supreme Court prosecutors have opened a third corruption investigation involving former monarch Juan Carlos I of Spain, officials said Friday. Attorney General Dolores Delgado and to... Read more

Police in Germany on Friday raided the homes and businesses of four men linked to the Islamic State sympathizer who carried out a deadly attack in Vienna this week, as Austria announced the... Read more

Austrian leaders called Thursday for more legal options to fight extremism and for an overhaul of the country’s domestic intelligence agency in the wake of this week’s deadly attack blamed o... Read more

As COVID-19 cases keep rising, the European Union’s executive commission lowered its forecast for the economic rebound from the coronavirus pandemic next year and said the economy woul... Read more

Shaimaa Yahya   Under the slogan “We want a homeland”, the Iraqi people have gathered to chant for freedom and equality and to demand justice. These protests have been countered by the... Read more

Fatima Abdul Ghani   Signs of an easing of hostilities in the Libyan crisis are looming on the horizon. For the first time, the Libyan Joint Military Committee held its meeting inside t... Read more

Mahmud al-Batakoshi In the previous two parts of this series, we threw light on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s enlistment of the services of his own intelligence agency and i... Read more

Social network providers who have not complied with Turkey’s new social media law, have been issued with 10 million TL ($1.17 million) fines on Wednesday, Turkish broadcaster NTV reported. M... Read more

Any chance of a reset in Turkish-American relations may depend on what happens during the transition between administrations should Democratic hopeful Joe Biden win Tuesday’s U.S. presidenti... Read more

France said it had disbanded the Grey Wolves on Wednesday, two days after announcing a ban against the Turkish ultra-nationalist group. The cabinet decision came after a memorial centre to m... Read more

Mahmud al-Batatkoshi Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan uses almost every possible tool to give his opponents a hard time and silence them. In the first part of this series, we threw som... Read more

Rubeir al-Fares Iraq’s Federal Police succeeded in arresting a terrorist affiliated to the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) in a village in the northern province of Kirkuk. Upon... Read more

Between six and 11 teachers have been kidnapped from a school in a western Cameroon region gripped by a three-year-old armed campaign by anglophone separatists, local sources said. The abduc... Read more