Turkey Libya Ceasefire

Turkey slams joint declaration by Cyprus, Greece and Egypt

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry has slammed a joint statement by Greece, Cyprus and Egypt that condemns Turkish energy exploration in the eastern Mediterranean and numerous “provocations” that they maintain are threatening regional peace

Sudanese return to streets over dire living conditions

Sudanese protesters have taken to the streets in the capital and across the country over dire living conditions and a deadly crackdown on demonstrators in the east earlier this month

Iraq Economy

India Nagaland Daily Life

Pakistan army to probe troops' role in arrest of politician

Pakistan’s army chief has ordered an investigation into allegations that a provincial police chief was kidnapped by army troops to force him to order the arrest of the son-in-law of exiled former prime minister Nawaz Sharif

UN arms embargoes on Iran expire despite US objections

A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets has expired

Afghans say preventing next war as vital as ending this one

Unresolved grievances are plentiful in Afghanistan, a nation traumatized by four decades of war, and today they cast a long shadow on the intra-Afghan negotiations which are under way in the Gulf nation of Qatar

Yemen's rival sides complete war's largest prisoner exchange

Yemen’s warring sides have completed a major U.N.-brokered prisoner swap, the largest-ever in the country's five years of civil war

Reports: Turkey tests Russian-made S-400 defense system

Turkish media reports say NATO-member Turkey has tested its Russian-made advanced air defense missile system, raising the specter of a new standoff with the United States