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The vice president for science and technology says Iran is to export diagnostic kits that it has indigenously produced for identification of the new coronavirus patients to Germany and Turkey. Speaking to IRNA on Monday, Sourena Sattari identified the devices as serologic test kits developed by Iranian science-based companies that have been granted export …

Syria’s UN ambassador has once again denounced Turkey for defying Damascus and intensifying its “illegitimate” military presence in the Arab country, saying Ankara’s forces have deployed US-made missiles to Syria’s militant-held Idlib Province in a flagrant violation of international law. Speaking at a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) session on …

Turkey says it will defend the internationally recognized government of Libya against the ‘military dictatorship’ planned by renegade General Khalifa Haftar, who has claimed to have a “mandate” to rule the African country. Libya plunged into chaos in 2011, when a popular uprising and a NATO intervention led to the …

Turkish forces have reportedly opened live fire on people protesting their patrolling of a key highway in northwestern Syria, killing two people and wounding three more. The protesters had set up roadblocks across the part of the M4 Highway that runs close to the government-held village of Nairab in the …

Damascus: Two Turkish-backed militant factions clashed in eastern Aleppo this weekend, resulting in several casualties for the parties involved.According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), the clashes broke out near the Abu Al-Zendayn Crossing in the city of Al-Bab on Saturday.The clashes reportedly took place between armed groups …

The Turkish army has brought additional military reinforcements to Syria’s easternmost Hasakah province as part of Ankara’s unauthorized cross-border offensive into the Arab country, says a report by Syria’s official news agency. Syria’s official news agency, SANA, citing unnamed local sources, said on Thursday that the Turkish military convoy, consisted …

Turkey has blocked public access to the websites belonging to the official news agencies of Saudi Arabia and its regional ally the United Arab Emirates amid simmering tensions between Ankara and Riyadh over the 2018 murder of a prominent Saudi journalist in Istanbul. The ban was enforced on Sunday against …

China had 82,719 reported cases as of Saturday, according to the Worldometer tally. Iran had 80,868 cases.Koca said 121 more people had died, taking Turkey’s death toll to 1,890. A total of 10,453 people have recovered from coronavirus so far, and the number of tests carried out over the past 24 hours …

Damascus: The Turkish military launched a new attack on the Syrian Arab Army’s (SAA) positions in the northeastern region of Syria. According to a field report from this region, the Turkish Army, alongside their allied militants, launched several artillery shells and rockets towards the Syrian Arab Army’s defenses around the …

Baghdad: For the second time this week, the Turkish Air Force has carried out strikes inside of Iraq, despite Baghdad’s disapproval of such attacks. On Friday, the Turkish Ministry of Defense announced the neutralization of 18 “terrorists” from members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) with a raid carried out …