Eurasia

Clashes between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar Assad in Tripoli continued for a third day Wednesday, leaving one dead and 29 wounded so far amid heavy military deployment in the northern city. Schools across Lebanon’s second largest city remained closed Wednesday as fighters in the mainly Sunni Bab al-Tabbaneh neighborhood exchanged rocket-propelled …

An Indian border guard of Border Security Force (BSF) was killed and six others wounded in skirmishes with Pakistani border guards on the international border in Kashmir, officials said today. The border guards targeted each other in R S Pura, Arnia, Ramgarh and Akhnoor sectors last night using heavy artillery …

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has welcomed the newly announced opening of Chapter 22 in Turkey’s EU accession process by calling it a positive step. But he also said that the decision was tardy and insufficient, pointing to a significant loss of time in Turkey’s EU candidacy. Responding to …

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif met with US President Barack Obama at the White House Wednesday for a meeting that highlighted the two countries’ shared interests “in a stable, secure, and prosperous Pakistan and region,” according to a joint statement released by the White House.

Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmi said that Egypt gives high priority to reinforcing the relations with Nile Basin countries. In statements on the sidelines of his current visit to Burundi on Tuesday 22/10/2013, Fahmi said “No party could solve its own problems at the expense of another, no Nile Basin country

The Turkish and Iraqi governments are currently bidding to improve bilateral ties with a series of high-level visits. Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari is expected to arrive inAnkara on Oct. 25 to conduct a series of meetings with Turkish officials, including his Turkish counterpart

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari will visit Turkey on Friday. According to the TV channel, issues of bilateral cooperation, the Syrian crisis, economic and regional issues will be discussed during the visit.

NATO Secretary General, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, and Russian Defence Minister, Sergey Shoygu, are meeting here on Wednesday in the NATO-Russia Council format to review cooperation on security issues. “One of these issues is terrorism. NATO Allies and Russia work together to counter terrorism in the air and on the ground,” …

Militants killed at least 22 members of the security forces in Iraq on Tuesday, mostly in attacks on police and military checkpoints, with the western Anbar province bearing the brunt of the violence, sources said.

Syria’s opposition in exile resisted calls Tuesday from Western and Arab countries to commit to attending peace talks, saying it would not take part if there was any chance President Bashar Assad remained in power.