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Taliban free four Turkish engineers in Afghanistan

The Taliban Sunday freed four of eight Turkish engineers taken hostage last month after their helicopter crashed in ...

Indonesia urged to extend, strengthen moratorium on deforestation

A number of non-governmental organizations have urged the Indonesian government to extend two-year moratorium on ...

EU to discuss Syria arms embargo in coming weeks

The European Union will discuss the question of easing an arms embargo preventing weapons supplies to Syrian rebels in ...

Indonesia to maintain deforestation moratorium

Indonesian Forestry Minister Zulkifli Hasan has reiterated the country`s commitment to continuing the implementation ...

Indonesia to Continue The Moratorium of Primary and Peat Forest Conversion

- The Minister of Forestry, Zulkifli Hasan, once again asserted the commitment of Indonesia to ensure the ...

Russia urges joint action to fight child porn

Russia`s Interior Ministry has called on police in over 50 countries to join an operation it launched to combat child ...

Syrian opposition coalition to open office in Istanbul

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced Friday that the newly-formed Syrian opposition coalition would ...

Turkey deploys 250 tanks, 55 jets on border with Syria

Turkey bolstered military presence on the border with Syria by deploying 250 tanks and 55 jets of various models on ...

Turkey to open new Syria refugee camps for up to 120,000

Turkey will open four new camps to accommodate refugees fleeing violence in Syria by next week, bringing its total ...

Suspected Kurd militants attack military bus in Turkey

Suspected Kurdish militants attacked a Turkish military bus on its way to a naval base in the western province of ...

Syrian general among 1,000 refugees fleeing to Turkey

About 1,000 Syrians, including a defecting brigadier-general, have fled to Turkey in the past 24 hours to escape ...

Global cooperation crucial to tackle terrorism: FM

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty M Natalegawa said international cooperation was a must to address the threat of ...

Al-Qaeda still a threat, spreading geographically

Al-Qaeda is still a serious and imminent threat as it is spreading geographically, US Secretary of State Hillary ...

Turkish commandos arrest 14 pirates, free seven Yemenis

Turkish commandos have arrested 14 pirates thought to be from Somalia off the coast of Oman and freed seven Yemeni ...

Iraq`s fugitive vp has medical checks in Turkey

Iraq`s Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi, who faces trial in absentia in Baghdad on charges of running a death squad, ...