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UN Syria envoy Geir Pedersen
Discussions on Syria constitution going 'better than expected': UN
GENEVA — A first round of discussions toward amending Syria's constitution went better than anticipated, the UN mediator said on Friday, adding that the talks would resume on Nov. 25."We have just concluded what I believe has been two weeks of successful discussions," UN Syria envoy Geir Pedersen told reporters in Geneva."Frankly I believe that it has gone much better than most people would have expected," he said.His comments came after a first week of intensified talks on amending the war-torn country's constitution ahead of possible elections as part of a UN peace plan.The talks kicked off last week with a ceremony and plenary session involving 150 delegates — split evenly between Syria's government, the opposition and Syrian civil society.But since...
November 08, 2019

Discussions on Syria constitution going 'better than expected': UN

Iranian national Bahareh Zare Bahari, who sought refugee status after she was denied entry into the Philippines on Oct. 18, speaks in her day room while holed up at the Ninoy Aquino International Airport terminal building in Manila in this Oct. 28, 2019 file photo. — AFP
Iranian beauty queen wins asylum in Philippines
MANILA — An Iranian beauty queen sought by Tehran on criminal charges has been granted political asylum in the Philippines, an official said on Friday, ending a three-week standoff at Manila airport.Bahareh Zare Bahari, based in the Philippines since 2014, was denied entry into the Southeast Asian nation on Oct. 17 when she returned from Dubai, with Philippine authorities citing an Iranian warrant for her arrest.Claiming Tehran wanted to punish her for opposition to Iran's theocratic regime, Bahari then sought refugee status, holed up in a room at Manila's international airport and using social media to rally support from the international community — including a plea to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte."They will kill me", Bahari told Britain's Telegraph...
November 08, 2019

Iranian beauty queen wins asylum in Philippines

Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu speaks during a news conference for foreign media correspondents in Istanbul, Turkey, in this Aug. 21, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
Turkey to send foreign Daesh militants home from Monday: Minister
ISTANBUL — Turkey will start sending foreign militants back to their home countries next week, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said on Friday."Now we are telling you that we are going to send them back to you. We are starting this on Monday," Soylu said in a speech in Ankara, referring to members of Daesh (the so-called IS).Earlier this week, Soylu said Turkey had nearly 1,200 foreign members of Daesh in custody, and had captured 287 during its recent operation in northern Syria."We will send three, five, 10 people back," Soylu said in the speech, which was shown online by local media."There is no need to try to escape from it, we will send them back to you. Deal with them how you want," he added.Turkey has criticized Western countries for refusing to...
November 08, 2019

Turkey to send foreign Daesh militants home from Monday: Minister

Packed & themed agenda in ADSD
ABU DHABI — The Emirates Policy Center (EPC) will hold the Sixth Annual Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate (ADSD) here from Nov. 9-11.The event is being held in cooperation with the UAE Ministry of Foreign Affairs and under the aegis of Sheikh Abdullah Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, UAE’s minister of foreign affairs and international cooperation.This year’s meeting will be held under the title “Old Power’s Competition in the New Age” and over two days, ADSD focuses on two major and connected themes.The first theme/day will deal with mapping of global capabilities and power. The first session will tackle the global military map by focusing on the global distribution of military power and the impact of technology on building and distribution of military power.The second session will touch upon the...
November 08, 2019

Packed & themed agenda in ADSD

Kurdish demonstrators hurl rocks at a Russian military vehicle on Friday, during a joint Turkish-Russian patrol near the town of Al-Muabbadah in the northeastern part of Hassakah on the Syrian border with Turkey. — AFP
Pentagon: Syria oil revenue going to Kurdish fighters
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon said on Thursday the United States is not profiting from Syrian oil, despite the deployment of troops to protect oil fields in the country's east."The revenue from this is not going to the US. This is going to the SDF," said Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman, referring to the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces, a key US ally in the military campaign against Daesh (the so-called IS).The goal is to allow the SDF to have "the ability to work on building up their strength on the de-ISIS campaign," Hoffman told a news conference."So it's preventing ISIS (from getting) it, allowing the Kurds and the SDF in there to have control of it as well."When Daesh militants controlled the oil fields in 2015, they pumped 45,000 barrels a...
November 08, 2019

Pentagon: Syria oil revenue going to Kurdish fighters

Turkish police stand guard in front of local council headquarters in Diyarbakir whose pro-Kurdish mayor was removed from office on Aug. 19, 2019 as part of a government crackdown on the opposition. — AFP
Pro-Kurdish mayor arrested in Turkey
ISTANBUL — A mayor from Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party was arrested on Friday, accused of membership in a "terrorist organization", according to state news agency Anadolu.Azim Yacan, mayor of Ipekyolu in the province of Van in southeast Turkey, was arrested along with his deputy, and charged with "terrorist propaganda" and membership in the outlawed Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK).Yacan is a member of the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP), the country's third-largest party.The government has cracked down on the HDP in recent months over alleged links to the PKK, which has fought a bloody insurgency against the state since 1984.Three recently-elected mayors were removed from office in August over alleged PKK ties. Three other mayors were...
November 08, 2019

Pro-Kurdish mayor arrested in Turkey

An Iraqi protester wearing a surgical mask gestures during clashes with security forces near the central bank in the capital Baghdad on Thursday, amid ongoing anti-government protests. — AFP
Iraq protests dig in for third week, as politicians do the same
BAGHDAD — Baghdad, Nov 8, 2019 (AFP) - Anti-government protests in Iraq entered their third week with fresh bloodshed on Friday, as leaders appeared to have closed rank around the country's embattled premier.More than a dozen demonstrators died in Baghdad and the southern port city of Basra within 24 hours, medical sources said.That pushed the death toll since the first protests erupted on Oct. 1 closer to 300, according to a tally compiled by AFP as officials have stopped providing updated figures.In Basra, seven protesters were killed in confrontations on Thursday and early Friday, with security forces trying to reopen roads blocked by sit-ins, medical sources said.For a week, protesters have cut access to Basra's Umm Qasr port, which brings in most of Iraq's food and...
November 08, 2019

Iraq protests dig in for third week, as politicians do the same

Lebanese students wave the national flag and chant slogans as they gather outside the Ministry of Education and Higher Education during ongoing anti-government protests, in the capital Beirut, on Friday. — AFP
Lebanon pupils skip school for 3rd day to demand change
BEIRUT — Thousands of high school students across Lebanon skipped classes on Friday for a third day in a row to carry on the flame of the country's anti-graft movement.Lebanon has since Oct. 17 been gripped by massive cross-sectarian protests demanding a complete revamping of a political system they say is corrupt and inept.With youth unemployment running at over 30 percent, school students have joined en masse since Wednesday demanding a better country so they don't have to emigrate.In Beirut, a teenage student who gave her name as Qamar was among thousands of pupils chanting slogans outside the ministry of education on Friday."So what if we lose a school year compared to our entire future?" she said. "I don't want to study in Lebanon and then have to travel...
November 08, 2019

Lebanon pupils skip school for 3rd day to demand change

The debris of a US drone Iran claimed to have shot down over the Gulf in June this year is on display in a special exbition in Tehran in this file photo. — AFP
Iran downs unidentified drone near Gulf coast: Reports
TEHRAN — Iran shot down an unidentified drone that "infiltrated" near Bandar-e Mahshahr port on the Gulf coast on Friday, Iranian media reported, after the downing of a US drone nearly triggered air strikes earlier this year.IRIB, a state broadcaster, aired a short video purporting to show the interception of the drone by an Iranian anti-missile battery.The six second sequence showed the luminous nighttime trail of what appeared to be a missile before an explosion at very low altitude.But the video was not broadcast by state TV's Farsi channel IRINN, which largely ignored the story.Relevant units acted "in response to a violation of our airspace by a drone (that) infiltrated", IRIBNEWS reported, citing Brigadier General Alireza Sabahi Fard, commander in chief of...
November 08, 2019

Iran downs unidentified drone near Gulf coast: Reports

A Jordanian soldier pulls a Jordanian national flag in an outpost at the border area between Israel and Jordan at Naharayim in this file photo. — Reuters
Israeli farmers to quit Jordanian lands as 25-year lease expires
JERUSALEM — A deal dating from Israel's historic 1994 peace treaty with Jordan allowing Israeli farmers to lease two sites along their common border runs out on Sunday but the tenants say that nobody has told them what happens the day after.In the peace negotiations, Jordan agreed to lease the lands to Israel for a 25-year renewable period, with Amman retaining sovereignty.One of the sites is Naharayim, a spit of land where the Jordan and Yarmuk rivers meet — which is called Baqura in Arabic.The other location, deep in the Negev desert south of the Dead Sea, is known in Hebrew as Tzofar and in Arabic as Ghumar.In October last year, Jordan's King Abdullah said his country had notified Israel that it wants to take them back.Now with the deadline only hours away, Idan Greenbaum,...
November 08, 2019

Israeli farmers to quit Jordanian lands as 25-year lease expires

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