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The army on Wednesday recap-tured the Al-Dabour Island region in Iraq’s western Anbar province from the Daesh terrorist group, Iraqi Army General Qassim al-Mu-hammadi told Anadolu Agency. ”The Iraqi army, backed by air-strikes carried out by the interna-tional coalition...

Turkey will push to raise its cred-it rate again following Moody’s downgrade from Baa3 to Ba1 last week, Deputy Prime Minister Me-hmet Simsek said on Thursday. Speaking at Anadolu Agency’s Ed-itors’ Desk in Ankara, Simsek, who is responsible for Turkey’s economy, said Moody’s rate cut is “not the end of the world”.

A man has been arrested after 19 deaths were reported in a south-western Chinese village in what state media called a “killing spree” Thursday.Xinhua news agency re-ported that a suspect identified as Yang Qingpei -- born in 1989 -- was arrested in Yunnan province’s capital Kunming, located around 200 kilometers (124 miles) from Yema village...

In a packed conference hall, British opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn told members of what he called the largest political party...

Russian President Vladimir Putin may pay an offi-cial visit to Turkey in October, a senior Turkish busi-ness leader said Wednesday in Moscow. “We expect that the restrictions on Turkish businessmen as well as the Turkish Stream [pipeline project] will be dis-cussed during the visit,” Rifat Hisarciklioglu, head

of the Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges, told journalists, referring to hurdles re-maining from a bilateral crisis last fall, recently re-solved through top-level exchanges. Hisarciklioglu and a delegation of Turkish businesspeople met with Alexey Likhachev...

Germany’s Muslim organizations have urged authorities to ensure greater security for their institu-tions after a mosque in Dresden was attacked by a homemade ex-plosive on Monday. Ali Kizilkaya, Chairman of the Islamic Council in Germany, which received more than 1 million migrants in 2015, said the growing number of at-tacks targeting Muslim institu-

tions in recent months has reached a “very worrisome point”. “These attacks against mosques and reli-gious institutions are worrisome developments with respect to freedoms, religious freedoms and democracy in Germany. Urgent measures should be taken to ad-dress this problem,” he told Anad-olu Agency on Tuesday. A mosque, run by a Turkish...

The European Commission said in a report on Wednesday seven bench-marks remained to be met by Turkey for visa liberalization. The commis-sion said it had “encouraged Turkey’s efforts to complete the delivery of all the outstanding benchmarks on the Visa Liberalization Roadmap as soon as possible”. Outstanding issues in-

clude biometric travel documents, anti-corruption measures and re-lations with Europol. Wednesday’s document also said benchmarks on personal data protection, judicial co-operation, terrorism legislation and implementing the EU-Turkey Read-mission Agreement remained to be resolved.

The latest U.S. statement, which says Moscow’s failure to stop the slaughter in Syria might expose “Russian interests, perhaps even Russian cities” to extremist at-tacks, is ‘supporting terrorism’,

Russian Deputy Foreign Minis-ter said Thursday. Sergei Ryab-kov told reporters that the U.S. supported terrorism by refusing to collaborate with Russia on the fight against Daesh...

EU Commission gives update on Turkey visa liberalization talks

German Muslims worried over increasing attacks on mosques Suspect arrested for 19 deaths

in China village ‘killing spree’

UK opposition embraces ‘21st century socialism’

Daesh loses more territory in Iraq’s Anbar: army general

Turkey to raise credit rating again: Deputy Prime Min.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that the coun-try’s ongoing state of emergency was only aimed to ease Turkey’s fight

against terrorist groups such as FETO and the PKK. “Three-month state of emergency is only for an effective counter-terrorism...

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State of emergency helps Turkey fight terror: President Erdogan

Turkey’s ongoing state of emergency only aims for an effective fight against FETO and PKK, says President Erdogan