Pro-Erdogan supporters gather during a rally against the military coup at Kizilay Square in Ankara, on July 25, 2016. ─AFP ISTANBUL: Turkey ordered the detention of 42 journalists on Monday, broadcaster NTV reported, under a crackdown following a failed coup that has targeted more than 60,000 people, drawing fire from the European Union. The arrests or suspensions of soldiers, police, ...

At least 60 people were killed killed in the Turkish capital Ankara during an attempted coup that started on Friday night, the Turkish officials have said. The officials further added that the majority of those killed are civilians while state-run Turkish media had earlier said that 17 police officers were killed in a helicopter attack on special forces headquarters on ...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has flown in to Istanbul, after an army group said it took over the country. He was seen surrounded by cheering supporters, and said the coup attempt was an “act of treason” and the army must be cleansed in a live TV speech. Forty-two people died during overnight clashes in the capital, Ankara, most of ...

FRANCE: At least 84 people lost their lives after a truck plowed into pedestrians during Bastille Day celebrations in the popular French seaside city of Nice on Thursday. The French President Francois Hollande called the incident ‘obviously a terrorist attack’. In his address earlier this morning, Hollande pledged to step u efforts to fight terror in Iraq and Syria while ...

BRUSSELS: EU Commissioner for Migration, Home Affairs and Citizenship Dimitris Avramopoulos addresses the media at the EU Commission headquarters on Wednesday.—AP BRUSSELS: The European Commission proposed more unified EU asylum rules on Wednesday, in a bid to stop people waiting for refugee status moving around the bloc and disrupting its passport-free zone. In an unprecedented wave of migration last year, ...

DHAKA: Bangladesh government has ordered Islamic television station Peace TV to stop broadcasting and has told schools to report any missing students. The station is run by Indian doctor-turned-preacher Zakir Naik, the founder and president of Mumbai-based Islamic Research Foundation, and its programmes are aired from Dubai. A Bangladesh cabinet committee decided to ban Peace TV from the country, information ...

POLAND: The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will start talks on Afghanistan during the second day of the Warsaw summit in Poland today with Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg saying the alliance focuses on 3 important decisions regarding the country. ” I expect Heads of State and Government to make three important decisions on Afghanistan,” Stoltenberg said while responding to a question if the ...

At least 19 people including 12 Pakistanis have been arrested by the Saudi authorities over a series of bomb attacks in the country. At least three bomb attacks took place in Saudi Arabia on Thursday including an attack outside the sprawling mosque where Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) is buried in the western city of Madina. The Ministry of Interior Saudi Arabia ...

An Iranian man has attracted international attention and has become a social media star for his massive muscles resembling to the movie character ‘The Hulk’. The 24-year-old weightlifter Sajad Gharibi is also known as The Persian Hercules and he has announced to take on the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) terrorist group and travel to Syria to defend ...

The suicide attack in Jeddah city of Saudi Arabia was carried out by a Pakistani man, the Saudi officials have said. According to the authorities, the attacker was a 34-year-old Pakistani driver named Abdullah Qalzar Khan, who lived with his wife and family in the city. The suicide bomber detonated his explosives near the US Consulate in Jeddah city, leaving ...