Syria

Mehmet Kuşman, who has been a volunteer guard at a Urartian castle in the eastern province of Van and is one of the few people in the world who speaks the Urartian language, has said that he will quit his voluntary job in November.

Some 35 migrants were injured on Wednesday night when the truck they were traveling in capsized on the road from the village of Udovo to the town of Gevgelija, close to North Macedonia's border with Greece.

According to the Interior Ministry, the injured migrants were kept in the cargo area of the truck that capsized. A total of 49 migrants was discovered at the site of the accident.

A total of 54 Syrians, who fled from their worn-torn country and settled in Türkiye's major metropolitan city of Istanbul's Esenyurt district, have returned to safe areas in their homeland, the district's mayor has announced.

In a statement published on Aug. 10, the ministry highlighted that the PKK terrorists were in preparation for an attack.

"We will be responding to the terrorists strongly," the ministry said without giving any further details.

According to reports, this decision was made at the moment when Lieutenant Colonel Nikolay Gorban (36), who led elite Spetsnaz special forces troops, was allegedly killed in Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Aug. 5 adopted a statement pledging to boost political and economic cooperation including in energy and trade.

The talks between Putin and Erdoğan came as Russia's isolation grows following its intervention in Ukraine.

US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan, the first by such a senior US official in 25 years sparked anti-US vitriol on Chinese social media.

Ukrainian Ambassador to Lithuania Petro Beshta (L) and Lithuanian Minister of National Defence Arvydas Anusauskas attend the presentation of combat drone Bayraktar TB2 at Siauliai Airbase, Lithuania, 06 July 2022. Photo: EPA-EFE/VALDA KALNINA.

Poles have so far raised about 14 of the 22.5 million zloty (4.6 million euros) needed to buy a Bayraktar TB-2 drone for Ukraine.

The terrorist organization YPG/PKK has recruited nearly 250 children in Syria, according to the annual U.N. report on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC), released on July 11, detailing the devastating impact various forms of conflict had on children around the world in 2021.

A U.K.-based culture magazine has picked the world's best 53 cities, ranking Türkiye's largest city Istanbul in the list.

Out of the 53 ranked cities chosen by the Time Out magazine, Edinburgh made it to the top of the list and was followed by Chicago and Medellin, while Istanbul was listed 50th.