Red Crescent

A Syria crisis-famed bearded "strategy expert" on a TV program was explaining how it was "normal" to have 14 casualties in a war being waged in a city. The expert said fighting a war with drones or armored vehicles was important in undermining the capacity of the enemy but in order to achieve victory, it was necessary to have boots on ground.

In the district of Al-Giza al-Bahriya in Libya's Sirte, the sea breeze mingles with the stench of corpses decomposing under the rubble.

The coastal neighborhood was the last part of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant's (ISIL) north African bastion to fall to unity government-allied forces on Dec. 5 after nearly seven months of fighting.

Rebels and pro-government forces have reached a deal to resume evacuations from east Aleppo as long as people are allowed to leave two Shiite villages besieged by insurgents and two other towns, Syrian state television reported on Dec. 18.

BELGRADE - Russia urges international community and international organizations to condemn murder of Russian doctors in hospital shelling in Syria's Aleppo, the Russian defense Ministery said on Monday.

Rescuers on Nov. 27 recovered two more bodies of miners killed after a landslide at the Madenköy copper mine in the southeastern province of Siirt, a security source said.        

Two passenger trains collided in Iran's north-central province of Semnan on early Nov. 25, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens, Iranian media reported, saying the number of fatalities and casualties expected to rise.

Counterfeit textile products seized inside Turkey will not be destroyed but will be distributed to those in need though the Turkish relief agency, the Red Crescent, as part of an initiative by a lawyer. 

The body of another missing miner was recovered on Nov. 24, seven days after a mine collapse in the Şirvan district of the southeastern province of Siirt, bringing the number of bodies found at the Madenköy copper mine to eight. 

Eight other workers still remain trapped underground. 

The body of one missing miner was recovered on Nov. 22, five days after a mine collapse in the Sirvan district of the southeastern province of Siirt, bringing the number of bodies found at the Madenköy copper mine to seven. 

Nine other workers still remain trapped underground. 

Some 1,635 migrants, mainly women, children and elderly people, crossed into Turkey on Jan. 29 and 30 from Syria, after leaving their camp across the border due to rising security risks, as the Russian and Bashar al-Assad forces' bombardment of Turkmen villages continued.