Turkey and Russia are negotiating to stage a Turkish military operation in Syria’s border town Kobane to clear Syrian Kurdish YPG units there, sources familiar with the issue told Middle East Eye. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said last month that Ankara had lost patience due to sporadic attacks by the YPG, also known as the People’s Protection …

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan on Tuesday received visiting Georgian Defense Minister Juansher Burchuladze. Greeting the guest, the Prime Minister said: “I have to record with satisfaction that there has been a very high dynamics in the relations between Armenia and Georgia over the past period and I am also happy that this dynamics is …

A meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council will be held in Yerevan in mid-November, Prime reported, quoting Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. “Along with effective bilateral cooperation, Russia and Kazakhstan have successfully joined the Eurasian Economic Union. Today we will discuss with you the preparations for the next meeting of the Eurasian Intergovernmental Council, which …

At least 19 people were killed and 43 wounded when two explosions, followed by gunfire, hit Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital in the capital Kabul, interior ministry sources told Al Jazeera on Tuesday. The gunshots were also heard near the Sardar Mohammad Daud Khan military hospital in the Afghan capital, according to witnesses and a government …

At the intersection of the Karmir Shuka community in the Martuni region of Atsakh, and accompanied by Russian peacekeepers, Azerbaijani troops today handed over to the Armenian side the remains of 11 Armenian soldiers missing since the 2nd  Artsakh war, the NSSP reported. Their identity will be confirmed after forensic examination. Since November 13, 2020, …

The Supreme Judiciary Council sees the its task in not only in the area of ​​whether or not to punish judges, but also wants to make decisions that will have a preventive effect on possible violations in the future, Gagik Jhangiryan, the acting chairman of the SJC, said at the discussion titled “The process of …

There are discussions about the Pashinyan-Aliyev-Putin meeting, but I think there is no document so far, Minister of Territorial Administration and Infrastructure Gnel Sanosyan told reporters today in the National Assembly. “I don’t know more, the colleagues of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs may say,” he said. Referring to the observation that Putin announced painful …

Forty-one members of the U.S. Congress sent a letter to Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Monday, opposing possible plans by the Biden administration to sell F-16 fighter jets to Turkey, Ahval reported. Lawmakers led by Chris Pappas, alongside Hellenic Caucus Co-Chairs Gus Bilirakis and Carolyn Maloney, requested more information from Blinken, asking about recent reports …

More than 100 world leaders have promised to end and reverse deforestation by 2030, in the COP26 climate summit’s first major deal. Brazil – where stretches of the Amazon rainforest have been cut down – was among the signatories on Tuesday. The pledge includes almost £14bn ($19.2bn) of public and private funds. Experts welcomed the …