Turkish officials previously cited damage from February’s earthquakes as a reason for suspending operations Turkey is set to restart operations this week by on a crude oil pipeline from Iraq after being suspended for more than six months. Turkey’s Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar told the ADIPEC energy conference in Abu …

Turkey said it unleashed air strikes on militant targets in northern Iraq and detained suspects in Istanbul overnight, hours after Kurdish militants said they orchestrated the first bomb attack in the capital Ankara in years. On Sunday morning, two attackers detonated a bomb near government buildings in Ankara, killing them …

France is planning to intervene in Niger, as it continues to deploy troops to several countries in the region, the West African state’s military government has claimed. Relations between Niger and former colonial power France have deteriorated since a coup in July. Media reports including reports by AFP said: “France …