Battle for Mosul: Turkey confirms military involvement
PM confirms Turkish military involvement after Peshmerga requests help in battle for Iraq's second largest city.
Turkey has confirmed its troops have fired at positions held by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in a town near Mosul after receiving a request by Kurdish Peshmerga fighters for assistance.
Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim announced on Sunday Turkey's involvement in the military offensive near Bashiqa, a town east of Mosul. He said that the Kurdish Peshmerga requested Turkey's assistance.
ISIL, also known as ISIS, took control of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, in 2014. A major drive to remove the hardline group from Mosul began last Monday.
Kurdish Peshmerga fighters are advancing on Bashiqa having launched a new operation on Sunday.
Cold war 2.0: how Russia and the west reheated a historic struggle
As chasm grows between a resurgent Russia and a divided US and Europe, diplomats say conflict is now more dangerous, with ‘no clear rules of the road’
General Sir Richard Shirreff remembers the moment he realised Nato was facing a new and more dangerous Russia. It was 19 March 2014, the day after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine.
Shirreff, then deputy supreme allied commander Europe, was at Nato’s military HQ in Mons, Belgium, when an American two-star general came in with the transcript of Putin’s speech justifying the annexation. “He briefed us”, Shirreff recalled, “and said, ‘I think this just might be a paradigm-shifting speech’, and I think he might have been right.”
The Russian president’s address aired a long list of grievances, with the west’s attempts to contain Russia in the 18th to 20th centuries right at the top.
Calais 'Jungle' evacuation begins after clashes with riot police
Sixty buses scheduled to arrive at the camp throughout the day to transport 3,000 people to the shelters
The evacuation of the Calais ‘Jungle’ has begun following clashes between residents and police as refugees living in the camp are told they must get on buses that will take them to reception centres across France.
Authorities will begin dismantling the camp's makeshift homes on Tuesday after sixty buses arrive to transport 3,000 people to shelters, known as CAO (centres d'accueil et d'orientation), where they will have to claim asylum in France within a set period of time or face deportation – but it is unlikely that all of the camp's residents will agree to board.
Refugees were seen queuing at a registration centre in the French port town early in the morning while it was still dark, wrapped in scarves and coats and holding rucksacks and suitcases.
The trainer leading the talk said sexual harassment doesn't occur unless you invite it. Um, what?
As someone who works in the development sector, I'm always excited whenever any capacity building opportunity presents itself, specially those that relate to gender.
Being Pakistan's focal person on gender for the humanitarian organization I work for, I strive to replicate the same training for my female staff later.
Last week, I was accepted to be a part of a women's leadership program organized by a prestigious US organisation promoting cultural exchange programs, taking place at a government directorate. I attended the training with high expectations but the elation I felt quickly turned to dread.
Cambodia's villagers lose ground – literally – to Singapore's expansion
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Singapore is buying tens of millions of tons of sand for its land reclamation projects. Their dredging is destroying Cambodia's coastal mangrove forests, and fishermen's livelihoods with them. But the villagers are pushing back.
KOH SRALAV, CAMBODIA — Singapore is a long way from this remote Cambodian fishing village – nearly a thousand miles across the sea. But as the bustling city-state grows, Koh Sralav and hamlets like it die. All because of sand.
Singapore is expanding; its land reclamation projects make it the largest sand importer in the world. Politically connected Cambodian firms have rushed to meet the demand. Local fishermen, and one of Southeast Asia’s largest mangrove forests, are paying the price.
Sand dredgers have deepened the shallow estuaries around this village by several meters. That has created strong currents which have eaten away at the riverbanks, destroying long stretches of mangrove.
Meet the Eritrea refugee turned rescue volunteer
After seeking asylum in the UK from Eritrea 15 years ago, Amani Teklahaimanot now helps refugees on their way to Europe.
Catania, Sicily - Amani Teklahaimanot is a unique shipmate.
A volunteer-rescuer trying to make African refugees safer, Teklahaimanot understands his passengers better than most.
Fifteen years ago, Teklahaimanot was in the same situation as those he is trying to help.
"I came through the same journey, and I really know how these people face a lot of hardship in their journey," he told Al Jazeera. "It's really a good opportunity to help these helpless people, because I was in the same situation."
Amani escaped poverty and repression in Eritrea in 2001.
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