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At least 14 people were killed and dozens wounded in large bomb blasts Dec. 28 in the central Syrian city of Homs, state media reported.

"The preliminary toll in simultaneous terrorist explosions that hit the city's Al-Zahraa neighbourhood is 14 dead and 132 wounded," state television reported in a news flash.    

Five Turkish soldiers sustained injuries on Dec. 27 in the second attack this month on Bashiqa training camp in northern Iraq, Turkish sources have said.

The first attack at the Sunni military camp in the Bashiqa region of Iraq's Mosul province occurred on Dec. 16, when Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants fired Katyusha ÇNRA projectiles at the camp. 

Dubai plans to raise spending by 12 percent next year, balancing that out with identical growth in revenue, on a budget of 46.1 billion dirhams ($12.6 billion), the government said yesterday.

The German military is preparing to send more troops who will operate early-warning defense planes to support NATO ally Turkey in order to contribute to the protection of the country's airspace from possible threats from neighboring Syria. 

A bomb attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) on a cultural center in gthe southeastern ??rnak province has inflicted grave damage, rendering the compound's library, cinema and movie theatre unusable. 

Three soldiers were killed while another soldier and a policeman were wounded in an attack by the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in the southeastern province of ??rnak, the Turkish Armed Forces has announced on its website. 

A Chinese coastguard vessel with what appeared to be gun turrets entered territorial waters claimed by Japan in the East China Sea, Japan's coastguard said on Dec. 26, adding that it was the first such incursion by an armed Chinese vessel in the disputed area. 

Ruins of a Roman-era bath and a floor mosaic have been discovered while drilling at a third degree archaeological site in the central Anatolian Osmaniye's district of Kadirli. 

President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an is set to visit Saudi Arabia on Dec. 29-30 and meet King Salman bin Abdülaziz al-Saud, a written statement from the presidential office has said. 

Some 978 people have been captured ahead of illegal crossings through Turkish borders, the Turkish General Staff has said.

The general staff said in a written statement that 978 people were captured before illegally crossing Turkey's borders with Greece, Bulgaria, Syria, Iraq and Iran on Dec. 26.