Turkish fighter jets have bombed Kurdish rebel locations in northern Iraq for the second time in eight days, the army said on Sunday. Turkey has escalated its attacks on the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party in recent months.
Free Syrian Army militias are fragmented, untrained and outmatched by Assad’s firepower. Nevertheless, Guardian reporter Ghaith Abdul Ahad describes a crackdown so bad that protesters would rather risk death than capture and torture.
Free Syrian Army militias are fragmented, untrained and outmatched by Assad’s firepower. Nevertheless, Guardian reporter Ghaith Abdul Ahad describes a crackdown so bad that protesters would rather risk death than capture and torture.
As the crackdown in Homs gets even more brutal, François Picard’s panel weighs up the feasibility of a safe haven near the Turkish border and rues the frustrating lack of an immediate solution for stopping the killing.
As the crackdown in Homs becomes even more brutal, François Picard’s panel weighs up the feasibility of a safe haven near the Turkish border and rues the frustrating lack of an immediate solution for stopping the killing.
Turkish and Qatari officials said a military strike on Iran would be disastrous for the region and dismissed suggestions of tighter sanctions to rein in its nuclear programme, saying renewed negotiations with Tehran were the only option.
Some 130 French parliamentarians have lodged an appeal with the country’s constitutional court to overturn a controversial bill that would criminalise denying that the 1915 mass killing of Armenians in Turkey was genocide.
A group of French senators have asked the constitutional council to review a law passed last week outlawing the denial of a genocide recognised by French law, namely the Holocaust or the 1915-1916 massacre of Armenians by Ottoman Turks.
Socialist presidential candidate hopeful François Hollande is on a roll, while incumbent Nicolas Sarkozy is musing about life after politics. Also on the show, the French parliament ignites a diplomatic storm with Turkey over the massacre of Armenians under the Ottoman empire.
Has Nicolas Sarkozy decided he's already the lost the election? All the papers have seized on an apparently off-the-cuff remark, where he said he would retire from politics if he loses the election.
