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Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi in Baghdad on March 3, 2019. (Credit: Wafa)
June 12, 2019, 7:52 pm
Iraq says it will skip US-led Bahrain peace workshop
White House official declines to say whether Baghdad was invited to conference; PLO Executive Committee member Ahmad Majdalani praises Iraqi decision to stay away
By Adam Rasgon
Residents inspect the damage to a building in Gaza City, May 4, 2019. (AP/Adel Hana)
May 5, 2019, 2:12 am
Erdogan blasts Israel after building used by Turkish news agency in Gaza bombed
President says Anadolu will ‘continue to tell the world about Israeli atrocities in Gaza’; IDF says leveled building was being used by terrorist groups
By AFP
A newscaster on the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa television station places a mug on his desk in what the Shin Bet security service says was a secret code to an operative in the West Bank. (Screen capture: Al-Aqsa TV/Shin Bet)
February 13, 2019, 2:24 pm
Shin Bet: Al-Aqsa TV used on-air signals to help Hamas coordinate terror attacks
Security service says Gaza terror group tried to recruit Palestinians in West Bank, Jerusalem who have Israeli ID cards to conduct attacks, including a planned suicide bus bombing
By Judah Ari Gross
The logo of the Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV
December 20, 2018, 7:42 pm
Hamas-affiliated channel stays on air despite saying broadcasts would end
Al-Aqsa TV says its financial woes have been partially resolved, as Hamas chief Haniyeh announces decision to keep it open
By Adam Rasgon
A picture taken on November 12, 2018 shows a ball of fire above the building housing the Hamas-run television station al-Aqsa TV in Gaza City during an Israeli air strike. ( Bashar TALEB / AFP)
December 20, 2018, 12:52 am
Bombed out and broke, Hamas-affiliated Al-Aqsa TV to go off air
Al-Aqsa TV, which had its studios destroyed by Israel last month, says it is facing a ‘suffocating’ financial crisis
By Adam Rasgon
A Turkish special force police officer patrols in front of the Reina nightclub in Istanbul on January 4, 2017, three days after a gunman killed 39 people on New Year's Eve. (AFP/Ozan Kose)
December 29, 2017, 11:22 am
Turkey nabs 29 suspected terrorists ahead of New Year’s Eve
A year after Israeli Lian Zaher Nasser killed in nightclub attack, Istanbul to deploy more than 40,000 security forces, ban some events
By Agencies and TOI staff
Mehmet Hakan Atilla from Halkbank talks about Bonds, Loans and Sukuk in Turkey in 2015. (YouTube screen shot)
March 29, 2017, 6:36 pm
US arrests Turkish banker on charges of violating Iran sanctions
Move could fuel tensions ahead of US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s visit to Ankara on Thursday
By Raziye AKKOC and Fulya Ozerkan
Illustrative: Smokes rise after alleged Kurdish militants detonated a car bomb outside a military station in Semdinli near the border with Iraq, Turkey, October, 9, 2016. (IHA via AP)
November 10, 2016, 2:32 pm
Kurds attack Turkish government building, wounding 3
District governor among those wounded in town of Derik, near border with Syria
By AP
Can Dundar, the editor-in-chief of opposition newspaper Cumhuriyet, second right, and Erdem Gul, the paper's Ankara representative, second left, speak to the media outside a courthouse in Istanbul, Turkey, Thursday, Nov. 26, 2015. (AP Photo/Vedat Arik, Cumhuriyet)
January 28, 2016, 11:16 am
Turkish prosecutor seeks life term for 2 jailed journalists
Opposition newspaper released details on 2014 police interception of government arms headed to Syria
By Susan Frazer
Sabiha Gokcen International Airport in Istanbul, Turkey (Photo by Gnesener1900/Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0)
December 23, 2015, 10:55 am
Woman killed, another injured in blast at Istanbul airport
Two airplane cleaners caught in mysterious explosion on grounded plane; police tighten security
By AFP
A Palestinian policeman loyal to Hamas stands guard as trucks transporting construction materials enter the Gaza Strip through the Kerem Shalom Crossing on September 22, 2013. (photo credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
April 21, 2015, 3:42 pm
New Hamas import tax leaves Gaza merchants fuming
Islamic movement says funds will be used to pay some 40,000 civil servants who haven’t received regular salaries in over a year
By Elhanan Miller
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses the general debate of the 69th session of the UN General Assembly, September 24, 2014. (photo credit: UN/Cia Pak)
November 7, 2014, 3:43 am
Erdogan calls Israel’s methods on Temple Mount ‘barbaric’
Turkish president, a perpetual critic, warns Jerusalem that its behavior will leave it isolated
By TOI staff
A tweet by the Turkish Anadolu Agency showing it's coverage of Wednesday's terrorist attack in Jerusalem. (screen capture: Twitter)
November 5, 2014, 11:22 pm
Israel summons Turkish news agency over tweet
Anadolu Agency reports terror attack as ‘Palestinian man shot dead by Israeli police,’ drawing official ire
By Ilan Ben Zion
Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on September 8, 2014 (photo credit: AFP/Kayhan Ozer/Presidential Press Office/Handout)
October 19, 2014, 2:43 pm
Erdogan opposes transfer of arms to Syrian Kurds
Turkish president says that fighters are ‘equal to PKK,’ which Ankara considers a terrorist group
By AP
A Syrian child lies in a safety seat while his family takes refuge at the Bab Al-Salameh border crossing, in hopes of entering one of the refugee camps in Turkey. (file photo credit: AP/Muhammed Muheisen)
November 9, 2012, 7:48 pm
Over 11,000 flee Syria to neighboring countries in one day
Flood of refugees desperate to escape heavy fighting in northern provinces; escalation brings number of registered refugees up to 408,000; Assad has ‘no regrets’
By Bassem Mroue
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