July, 2014

• 24 July

  At least 11 killed after mortar strike in Aleppo, northern Syria

  At least 11 people, including three children and a woman, were killed and eight others wounded when a mortar shell fell on a district of Aleppo city, north Syria, on Thursday. The area is controlled by the regular forces, according to a statement by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights …

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• 24 July

  US welcomes parties agreement to end violence in CAR

  The US welcomed the decision by all parties to end the violence in the Central African Republic after they signed a “Cessation of Hostilities Agreement.”

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• 24 July

  Turkey is considering closing embassy in Tripoli

  Turkey has considered closing its embassy in Tripoli because of growing security concerns in the country, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu has said, adding that efforts to evacuate Turkish citizens in Libya were underway. 

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• 24 July

  Two Ukrainian jets shot down over Shakhtarsk region

  Pro-Russian rebels in the east of Ukraine reportedly shot down two fighter jets of Kiev’s military forces, agencies from the country said. Two Su-25 aircraft were shot near the Savur-Mogila memorial, in the Shakhtarsk region near Russia’s border. 

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• 24 July

  Fuad Masum elected new Iraqi President

  Iraqi lawmakers elected a veteran Kurdish politician as the nation’s new president on Thursday, hours after an attack on a prison convoy killed dozens of people, brutally underscoring the challenges faced by the country’s leaders as they struggle to form a new government.

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• 24 July

  Ukraine PM resigns

  Ukraine’s Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk resigned on Thursday after his governing coalition collapsed, plunging the former Soviet State into political limbo. The news came hours after the coalition that had supported Mr. Yatsenyuk’s Fatherland party dissolved, a move that all coalition members had sought.

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• 22 July

  EU expands sanctions on Syrian regime

  The EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels Tuesday decided to add three additional Syrian persons and nine entities to its blacklist in view of the gravity of the situation in Syria. The Council in a statement said Syrian regime officials are involved “in the violent repression of the civilian …

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• 22 July

  Ukraine army retakes control of Severodonetsk city

  Ukrainian troops on Tuesday wrested back control of the strategically-important town of Severodonetsk from pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine, the interior ministry said. Ukraine’s security forces were in control of “all the vital facilities” in the city of around 110,000, located roughly 120 kilometres (75 miles) to the north of …

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• 22 July

  Tunisia, Algeria to join forces in fight against terror

  Tunisian Prime Minister Mehdi Jomaa on Tuesday,  arrived in Algeria as head of a government delegation to discuss border security and counterterrorism cooperation with the Algerian officials. Jomaa was accompanied by Foreign Minister Rafik Abdessalam and Defence Minister Ghazi Jribi ahead of a high level meeting with top Algerian officials.

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• 22 July

  US condemns attack on Egyptian troops at border checkpoint

  The United States on Monday condemned a weekend attack on an Egyptian border checkpoint which left 21 soldiers dead, and vowed to keep up support for Egypt’s security.

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