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Bulgarian Defense Minister Nikolay Nenchev has warned the country's army will need hundreds of millions of BGN for current expenses over the next few years.

A Shiite militia group that abducted 18 Turkish workers on Sept. 2 has released a video of them for the first time, reading the names of the abducted workers and a list of the group's demands, Al Jazeera Türk has reported.

The group calling itself the "Death Squads," listed its conditions to release the workers, addressing Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an. 

A church discovered in Diyarbak?r?s Zerzevan Castle is considered by some to be the first church of the Romans, who converted to Christianity from polytheistic religions Excavations in the historic Zerzevan Castle in the eastern province of Diyarbak?r?s Ç?nar district have unearthed the first church of Roman Christians beneath the fortress.

Jihadists of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) edged closer to a strategic airbase in eastern Syria in heavy clashes that left 54 fighters dead, a monitoring group said on Sept.10.

The Turkish government brushed aside calls by opposition parties to lift the week-long curfew in Cizre in the southeastern province of ??rnak, as it also insisted on blocking members of parliament from entering the area. 

The Court of Bosnia-Herzegovina has confirmed the recently raised indictment against Naser Oric and Sabahudin Muhic.

Oric was the wartime commander of the Army of the Republic of Bosnia-Herzegovina (ARBiH) in the Srebrenica region.

Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate and its allies seized the last regime-held military base in northwestern Idlib province on Sept.9, in the latest setback for President Bashar al-Assad's forces.

A camerawoman who worked for Hungary's N1 TV station has been fired after videos showed her tripping up an older man holding a child in his arms.

She also kicked a girl running from the police at the Roeszke reception centre.

The ugly scenes happened on Tuesday as dozens of Middle Eastern refugees tried to escape police officers.

The enactment of laws in organised societies is usually the last step of conventions and customs finally being accepted as a norm. But when it comes to laws pertaining to sexual activities and conventions one would be surprised as to what laws actually exist in other countries. Here are some of those ‘weird’ sexual laws that probably put a little strain on a our rational faculties…

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Sept. 8 condemned the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party's (PKK) recent attacks in Turkey which have killed dozens of soldiers and police officers since Sept. 6.

"[Ban] conveys his condolences to the families of the victims and expresses his deep sympathy to the government and people of Turkey," read a statement issued by his spokesperson.