Trial of Islamic State suspects shows Turkish security flaws before bombings
ANKARA (Reuters) – For two years, Haci Ali Durmaz says he used to cross the Turkish border into Syria, join the ranks of Islamic State for a few months, and then return to Turkey to work in construction.
In Jordan, a Syrian refugee camp withers
ZAATARI, Jordan (Reuters) – Mohammad Othman’s bicycle route through the marketplace in the Syrian refugee camp of Zaatari was once a struggle against a tide of people.
Britain to Trump: ‘No vacancy’ for Farage as ambassador
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain on Tuesday dismissed U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s unprecedented expression of support for Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage to be made British ambassador to Washington, saying pointedly that there is no vacancy for the jo…
Landless Cambodian farmers look to International Criminal Court for justice
SRE AMBEL DISTRICT, Cambodia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A group of farmers who survived the Khmer Rouge’s notorious “Killing Fields” genocide in Cambodia are at the center of a landmark legal case that could change the way global corporations manag…
Boko Haram launches three assaults in Cameroon within 24 hours
YAOUNDE (Reuters) – Suspected Boko Haram militants launched three attacks in northern Cameroon within 24 hours, including a thwarted suicide strike on a camp for people who have been displaced by the conflict, security sources said on Tuesday.
Currency drop hits Egypt’s medicine supplies, angering public
CAIRO (Reuters) – Pharmacies across Egypt are running short of medicines, some of them life-savers, as a plunge in the value of the Egyptian pound coupled with strict government price caps has made scores of products unprofitable to produce or import.
Followers of cleric Gulen still active in Turkish police, armed forces, Erdogan says
ANKARA (Reuters) – Followers of the cleric Turkey blames for orchestrating a failed coup this year are still active in the armed forces, judiciary and police, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, as he vowed to continue to root them out.
Turkey-backed forces besiege Syria’s al-Bab, eyes on Manbij: Erdogan
ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkey-backed forces have besieged the Islamic State-held Syrian town of al-Bab from the west and have set their sites on Manbij for their next offensive, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday.
Some 1,400 migrants rescued, eight bodies recovered: Italy coastguard
ROME (Reuters) – Some 1,400 boat migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean from North Africa to Europe have been rescued so far on Tuesday, Italy’s coastguard said, after at least 11 overcrowded boats set out from Libya amid calm seas.
Death toll among Iran’s forces in Syrian war passes 1,000
BEIRUT (Reuters) – More than 1,000 soldiers deployed by Iran to Syria to back the government side in its civil war have been killed, an Iranian official said, underlining Tehran’s increasing presence on front lines of the conflict.
