DAMASCUS, Dec. 11 (NsNewsWire) — The Islamic State (IS) group entered the ancient city of Palmyra in central Syria on Saturday, nine months after the Syrian army captured it, a monitor group reported. “The IS is in the city of Palmyra for the first time after losing it to the Syrian army, whose forces are […]

BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) — China’s meteorological authorities on Sunday issued a yellow alert for a new bout of smog that is expected to hang heavy in large areas of the country. Parts of Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hunan and Jiangxi will be covered by smog from Sunday to Monday, with some […]

ANKARA, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — Turkish court dismissed Friday the Mavi Marmara raid case, a thorny issue that strained Turkish-Israeli relations, acquitting all of the Israeli suspects accused of killing 10 Turkish activists on international waters, Turkish Daily Sabah reported. Last week, the prosecutor in the case asked the court to drop the charges against […]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has picked a Goldman Sachs executive to head the White House National Economic Council, local media reported Friday. Gary Cohn, Goldman’s president and chief operating officer, has been offered the director of the key economic council to coordinate domestic and international economic issues across the Trump’s […]

LAGOS, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — A total of 56 people lost their lives and 177 others were injured in Friday’s twin blasts that hit a crowded market in northeast Nigeria, a local official said Saturday. Yusuf Muhammed, chairman of the local government of Madagali, a district in the northeastern Nigerian state of Adamawa, told reporters […]

SEOUL, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — Different sides in South Korea have called for efforts to end the political chaos and minimize the vacuum of state affairs, after the National Assembly on Friday overwhelmingly passed a motion to impeach scandal-scarred President Park Geun-hye. “For the past months, the state affairs have been virtually paralyzed. Since the […]

UNITED NATIONS, Dec. 10 (NsNewsWire) — UN Secretary-General Designate Antonio Guterres will take his oath of office on Dec. 12 at a special meeting of the UN General Assembly (UNGA), UNGA President’s spokesperson Dan Thomas told reporters here on Friday. The meeting will pay tribute to outgoing UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and to administer the […]

DAMASCUS, Dec. 10 (Xinhua) — The international intervention in Syria was until last year under the hood, with what analysts called a proxy war. The proxy war is still ongoing, but in 2016 the super powers have become more personally involved in Syria’s nearly six-year-old conflict. MILITARY INVOLVEMENT OF TURKEY Since the beginning of the […]