BAGHDAD/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Iraq is surprised by Turkey's decision to start holding back water behind its Ilisu dam earlier than promised, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday, suggesting it was done to win support for the government in upcoming elections. Turkey has started filling the dam basin, a step that
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Humanitarian orgs demand Macron’s conference to focus on alleviating the suffering of Yemenis
PARIS (Reuters) - Almost 30 aid groups wrote to French President Emmanuel Macron on Monday evening threatening to shun a conference on Yemen co-chaired by Saudi Arabia, one of the warring parties, unless France as host ensured its aims were purely humanitarian, not political. France earlier confirmed that the gathering of
U.N Security Council to vote on international protection for Palestine
By Middle East Affairs Friday could bring an instrumental vote by the U.N Security Council on a vote for "international protection" for Palestinian civilians from the violence inflicted on to them from Israeli forces. After weeks of discussion on the matters, diplomats say that the vote could be Friday, or possibly later,