DAMASCUS, June 10 (Xinhua) — The general command of the Syrian army said in a statement on Saturday that reaching the Syrian-Iraqi borders constitutes a “turning point” in the war on terror. It said the Syrian forces and allied troops have completed the first stage of the military operation in the Syrian Desert, by reaching […]

LONDON, June 10 (Xinhua) — British Prime Minister Theresa May’s two co-chiefs of staff quit Saturday as the fallout from the Conservative’s poor showing in this week’s general election continued. Nick Timothy and Fiona Hill who had been the main architects of May’s disastrous election campaign announced within minutes of each other that they were […]

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan, June 10 (Xinhua) — At least three Afghan Border Police (ABP) personnel were killed and two others wounded after a U.S.-led air raid struck their position in southern Helmand province overnight, a local official said on Saturday. “The incident occurred in surrounding areas of Nad Ali district, west of provincial capital Lashkar […]

BAGHDAD, June 9 (Xinhua) — The Iraqi government on Friday criticized announcement by the Kurdish regional government to set a date to hold a referendum on independence in the autonomous region of Kurdistan and the disputed areas. The government’s first critic came two days after Masoud Barzani, the president of the Kurdish region, announced the […]

BERLIN, June 9 (Xinhua) — The leader of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD) Martin Schulz has described the failure of conservative Prime Minister Theresa May to defend her party’s outright majority in the British parliamentary election as a “catastrophic defeat” on Friday. At the same time, he praised the leader of the opposition Labour […]

SEOUL, June 9 (Xinhua) — A flying object believed to be a drone of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was found in a mountainous area near the eastern inter-Korean border, South Korea’s military said Friday. The object, which was found at the hill in Inje, Gangwon province, was similar in size and shape […]

TOKYO, June 9 (Xinhua) — Japan’s Education Minister Hirokazu Matsuno said Friday his ministry will reinvestigate the existence of documents central to an ongoing scandal possibly implicating Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and the government in providing a close friend of Abe’s with favorable treatment to open a new school. Matsuno told a press conference on […]

SEOUL, June 9 (Xinhua) — South Korea has formed an inter-ministry task force on the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) after President Moon Jae-in ordered a green audit of the THAAD site. Defense Ministry spokesman Moon Sang-kyun told a regular press briefing Friday that the Office for Government Policy Coordination formed […]