ISTANBUL: Japan on Friday urged its citizens to leave Lebanon and dispatched aircraft to evacuate its citizens, as Israel carries out extensive strikes in the country.

Defense Minister Kihara Minoru ordered the deployment of aircraft to Jordan and Gr…

ANKARA: Five Syrian soldiers were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a military site on the Syrian-Lebanese border at dawn on Friday, according to Syria’s state-run news agency SANA.

The agency quoted a Syrian military source saying that ‘at ap…

NEW YORK: The Turkish delegation and many others walked out of the UN General Assembly on Friday in protest ahead of a speech by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu entered the hall and approached the podium to address the 79th sessi…