Tag: Turkey

Student kills 9 in Turkey’s second school shooting in 2 days

[ad_1] A student opened fire on two classrooms at a middle school in Turkey on Wednesday, killing nine people and wounding 13 others, the interior minister said, in the country’s second such shooting in two days. The 14-year-old gunman was killed. He arrived at the school armed with guns believed to belong to his father, […]

Gunmen ‘neutralised’ after shots fired outside Israeli consulate

[ad_1] To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video At least one gunman has been shot and killed after an incident outside the Israeli consulate in Istanbul. A firefight reportedly broke out outside the diplomatic mission in Turkey’s largest city today. Three men are thought […]

Is it safe to travel to Turkey? This is the latest UK Foreign Office advice

[ad_1] Some 63.4 million international tourists visited Turkey last year (Picture: Getty Images) While tensions in the Middle East continue to escalate, it remains business as usual in Turkey’s main tourist hubs. With historic cities and spectacular coastlines, the West Asian country remains one of the most popular holiday destinations for European travellers. In 2025, […]

How the Iran conflict is spreading — in pictures

[ad_1] The conflict in the Middle East is rapidly expanding across the region as the U.S. and Israel-led war with Iran enters its sixth day. Images published Thursday showed destruction across Tehran after nearly a week of strikes on Iran’s capital. Iran has retaliated by launching a wave of missiles and drones at Israel, as […]

Shamima Begum ‘plots return to Britain using people smugglers’: Texts from ISIS bride’s ‘fixer’ ‘beg for cash so she can flee Syria and force deportation to UK’

[ad_1] ISIS bride Shamima Begum is plotting an attempt to return to the UK using people smugglers, texts from inside her camp reportedly reveal. Begum, who was stripped of her British citizenship after leaving London to join the terror group in 2015, is currently being held at al-Roj – a filthy, violent camp in north-east Syria.  The […]