Military

Syrian troops backed by Russian forces recaptured the famed ancient city of Palmyra from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group on March 27 in a major victory over the jihadists.

Turkish artillery and warplanes struck Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) positions in northern Iraq after a Turkish soldier was killed on March 26 during a gun battle between ISIL militants and Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces.

One Turkish soldier was killed on March 26 when a rocket projectile fired from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) region hit the Bashiqa camp near Mosul in northern Iraq, marking the first such Turkish casualty in the camp.

U.S. Vice President Joseph Biden has told Serbian PM Aleksandar Vucic that he "regretted the loss of civilian life during NATO's bombing campaign in 1999."

NATO was "killing citizens of Serbia, trying to kill Serbia," Aleksandar Vucic said in his address to a commemorative gathering held in the town of Varvarin.

The prime minister spoke on Thursday, the anniversary of the start of the western military alliance's 1999 campaign of air strikes on Serbia, marked as Remembrance Day of Victims of the NATO Aggression.

All places of suffering during NATO's bombing, the Dragisa Misovic hospital more so than others, represent "a civilization's disgrace in the late 20th century."

All citizens should be concerned that there is no politician in Serbia who will tell the truth about the NATO bombing, says Natasa Kandic.

"I never will, and I cannot forget what happened on May 30, 1999," Miroslav Dakic, a survivor of NATO's attack on a bridge in Varvarin, said on Thursday.

Yemen's warring parties have agreed on a ceasefire from April 10 followed by peace talks, a U.N. envoy said March 23, raising hopes of a breakthrough in a conflict that has devastated the country.

The Greek government faces the difficulties emerged concerning the implementation of the EU-Turkey agreement on refugee signed a few days ago, while the recent terrorist attacks in Europe makes things more difficult for Greece.