Exclusive: Kurdish YPG militia expects conflict with Turkey in northern Syria
QAMISHLI, Syria/ANKARA (Reuters) – The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said on Wednesday that Turkish military deployments near Kurdish-held areas of northwestern Syria amounted to a “declaration of war” which could trigger clashes within days.
Zambia’s president to seek parliament backing for state of emergency
LUSAKA (Reuters) – Zambian President Edgar Lungu said on Wednesday he would seek parliament’s approval to impose a state of emergency after fire gutted the country’s biggest market in what he said was politically motivated arson.
G20 draft text fuses U.S. climate isolation with deal on innovation
BERLIN (Reuters) – Draft conclusions to this week’s summit of the Group of 20 leading economies acknowledge the United States’ isolation in opposing the Paris climate accord but agree to G20 collaboration on reducing emissions through innovation, a G20…
At least 26 dead, hospitalized in Mexico shootout: government
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 26 people were dead or hospitalized after a shootout in the northern Mexican border state of Chihuahua on Wednesday, the state attorney general’s office said, as drug violence surges in one of Mexico’s bloodiest years o…
U.N. chief to return to Cyprus talks on Thursday: spokesman
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – United Nations chief Antonio Guterres will return to Switzerland to attend talks to reunite Cyprus on Thursday because it is “opportune,” his spokesman said on Wednesday.
Belgian police arrest two men suspected of preparing attack
BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – Belgian prosecutors said on Wednesday they had charged two Belgian nationals with terrorist activity after police found weapons and detonators during house searches overnight in the capital Brussels.
In Syria’s Raqqa, corpses left to rot in the streets
BEIRUT (Reuters) – When Abu Ahmad stepped out of his house in Raqqa after a night of heavy air strikes, he found several of his neighbors lying dead in the street.
U.S. strikes al Shabaab militants in Somalia: Pentagon
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The U.S. military carried out a strike in Somalia against the al-Qaeda-linked al Shabaab militant group on July 4, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, the second attack on the group in the last few days.
Turkey says it’s not ‘declaring war’ in Syria, but ready to respond
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkish military preparations in northwest Syria are legitimate measures against a threat from Kurdish forces in the Afrin region, and Turkey will retaliate against any hostile move, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told Reuters…
Tillerson to visit Ukraine, Turkey next week after G20
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will visit Ukraine and Turkey next week after he accompanies President Donald Trump to the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, the State Department said on Wednesday.
