Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s AKP suffered a blow in Sunday’s local election with the ruling party set to lose the capital Ankara and risking defeat in the country’s economic hub Istanbul. Losing Turkey’s two major cities would be a clear setback for Erdogan and his Justice and Development Party ...
Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri arrived Sunday in Baghdad on an official visit, at the invitation of his Iraqi counterpart Mohammed al-Halbousi. “I am very happy to be back here again, and I wish [Iraq] prosperity after Daesh [ISIS] was defeated and victory over terrorism was achieved,” Berri told reporters ...