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Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) fighters gather at the eastern entrances to the town of Tel Abyad of Raqqa province, Syria, on June 14, 2015. (Reuters/Rodi Said)
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Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan speaks during a graduation ceremony for foreign students in Ankara, Turkey, on June 11, 2015. (AP Photo/Burhan Ozbilici)
Opposition attempts to “humiliate” Erdoğan “unacceptable”: official
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—A high-level Turkish official has warned the country’s opposition parties that their attempts to “humiliate” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were “unacceptable” and would not lead to a coalition government. Speaking to Asharq Al-Awsat, the...Caption:
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon (C), United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen, Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (L), and Acting Director-General of the United Nations Office in Geneva Michael Møller (R), attend a news conference at the Geneva Consultations on Yemen peace talks between Yemen’s warring factions, at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, on June 15, 2015. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)
Ban Ki-moon opens Yemen peace talks in Geneva
Geneva, Asharq Al-Awsat—United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday opened Geneva peace talks between Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the Houthi movement currently in control of large parts of the country. The start of the talks as...Caption:
Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir looks on ahead of the 25th African Union summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, on June 14, 2015. (Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko)
South Africa court bars indicted Sudan leader from leaving
Pretoria, Geneva and Johannesburg, Reuters—A South African judge barred Sudan’s indicted president from leaving the country on Sunday, in a deepening rift between Africa and the West over what Pretoria called anti-poor country bias in the International Criminal...Caption:
In this August 16, 2014 file photo Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi smiles during a meeting with Germany’s Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Baghdad, Iraq. (Reuters/Hadi Mizban/Pool)