DHAKA: Turkey has summoned ambassadors from both Russia and the United States regarding ties with Kurdish forces in Syria.Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said, reacting to any probable arms support to groups which have ties with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK),

DHAKA: A missile test announced by Iran over the weekend was an apparent violation of a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) resolution and Washington will raise it at the UN.The US State Department said on October 13, Hurriyeet Daily News publishes this report on October 14.Iran said

DHAKA: The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has said she will investigate Russian and Georgian forces over possible war crimes.The investigation relates to a five-day conflict in 2008 centered on South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia.Fatou Bensouda said she had

DHAKA: Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton‘s Democratic rivals declined to make an issue of the email scandal that has dogged her campaign, helping sharpen her increasingly aggressive message that controversy is being driven by Republican partisanship.In Tuesday’s Las Vegas

DHAKA: Hillary Clinton on Tuesday went on offense in the first Democratic presidential debate on gun control, foreign policy and the Republican probe of her email server, while also punching back against a quartet of primary rivals seeking to knock her out of front-runner status.Hillary

DHAKA: Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 crashed as a result of a Russian-made Buk missile, the Dutch Safety Board says.The missile hit the front left of the plane causing other parts to break off, it said in a final report into the July 2014 disaster, which killed 298 people.The West and

DHAKA: The Afghan Taliban have claimed withdrawal from the center of the northern city of Kunduz after weeks of intense fighting against the Afghan troops back by US airstrikes in the city.Zabihullah Mujahid, the Taliban spokesperson, told Al Jazeera that they have withdrawn from the city

DHAKA: Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was hit and downed by a Russian-made surface-to-air BUK missile over eastern Ukraine last year.The Dutch Safety Board said, reports Al Jazeera.‘Flight MH17 crashed as a result of the detonation of a warhead outside the airplane against the left-hand

DHAKA: Israeli police reported two suspected terror attacks took place at separate locations in Jerusalem on Tuesday morning.A stabbing and shooting attack took place aboard a bus in the capital’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood, reports The Jerusalem Post.According to police two terrorists

DHAKA: Palestinian citizens of Israel have announced a general strike and more protests as unrest continues to sweep Israel and the occupied Palestinian territories since the killing of two Israeli settlers in the West Bank on October 1.The High Follow-Up Committee for Arab Citizens of

DHAKA: Iran’s parliament has approved a deal on its nuclear program agreed with six world powers.State media say, reports the BBC.The deal was passed with 161 votes in favor, 59 against and 13 abstentions, the official IRNA news agency said.However, parliament insisted that

DHAKA: At least 13 people, including seven children were killed as a rockslide hit shanties erected in Karachi of Pakistan early Tuesday.Rescue teams reached the site of the incident at Gulistan-i-Jauhar area and recovered the bodies of three women, three men and seven children from

DHAKA: The Dutch Safety Board is set to publish a final report on why Malaysian Airlines Flight MH17 broke up over Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 on board.Preliminary findings said that it was hit by “high-energy objects from outside the aircraft”, fuelling speculation that a

DHAKA: The U.S. military has delivered more than 45 tonnes of ammunition to rebels fighting the jihadist group Islamic State (IS) in north-eastern Syria, reports the BBC.C-17 transport aircraft accompanied by fighter escorts, dropped pallets of supplies overnight in Hassakeh province.The

DHAKA: Indian police are questioning two men in connection with the rape of a four-year-old girl in the capital, Delhi.The city’s deputy commissioner of police, Vijay Singh, told the BBC that no arrests had been made yet.The child is in intensive care after being found unconscious by

DHAKA: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel for 2015 to Angus Deaton.Deaton of Princeton University, NJ, USA got the award ‘for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare’, an

DHAKA: The Islamic State (IS) group is the prime suspect in the Ankara bombings that killed nearly 100 on Saturday.Turkish PM Ahmet Davutoglu has said, reports the BBC.No group has said it carried out the attack, but the government believes that two male suicide bombers caused the

DHAKA: Jeremiah Wright, President Barack Obama’s former pastor, called Israel an apartheid state at a rally in Washington hosted by the Rev. Louis Farrakhan.He further said ‘Jesus was a Palestinian’.At an hours-long event Saturday on the National Mall titled ‘Justice or Else’,

DHAKA: Five people, including two RAF (Royal Air Force) personnel, have been killed in a helicopter crash in Afghanistan.The Puma Mk2 helicopter crashed as it was landing at Nato's Resolute Support mission headquarters, Kabul. Nato has not released the nationalities of the other victims

DHAKA: Nepal’s parliament has chosen Khadga Prasad Sharma Oli as the new prime minister, sweeping him into a number of challenges from rebuilding recently earthquake-hit areas and calming street protests, to soothing tensions with neighboring India.On Sunday, politicians voted for KP