France dispatched hundreds of firefighters to battle a wildfire that broke out in the Var region of southern France – Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin – Monday Much of the Mediterranean region has faced bouts of extremely hot weather in recent…
Police in Turkey detained 76 people in connection with attacks on homes and businesses believed to be owned by Syrians after a Turkish teenager was killed in a fight with a group of refugees from Syria on Thursday. Turkey is…
Israel separately traded fire with Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah, in a third day of cross-border salvoes amid wider regional tensions with Iran and bombed Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip in response to incendiary balloons launched from the Palestinian enclave. Since…
Lebanon’s Hezbollah shot a volley of rockets at Israeli situations on Friday, inciting retaliatory shelling, in acceleration between the Iran-sponsored development and the Jewish state. An eruption along the boundary this week has seen Israel do its first air strikes…
Russia increased its supply of weapons and military equipment to Uzbekistan and Tajikistan during the fighting in Afghanistan, Interfax quoted the Russian military on Thursday. Chief of Staff Valery Gerasimov. Russia maintains important military bases in the two poorest countries…
Three people died in a forest wildfire in southern Turkey Coast, Manavgat, on Thursday where authorities were battling multiple blazes for a second day amid suspicions of arson, the country’s disaster agency and the agriculture minister said. Dozens of villages…
Extremely hot temperatures and drought conditions due to climate change exacerbate European wildfires. Sardinia’s local government declared a state of emergency on Sunday, due to what it described as a “disaster without precedence.” Devastating wildfires have spread across parts of…
Tunisian President accused of staging coup after suspending parliament, Largest political bloc ‘ready’ for legislative and presidential polls at it warns of risk of ‘autocratic’ rule. After the 2011 political crisis which introduced democracy in the country, the recent event…
Most European troops have already left Afghanistan, secretly retreating months before the US-led mission was set to officially conclude, in an anticlimactic end to a never-ending war that threatens to plunge the country into civil strife. On Wednesday, Germany and…
