A fierce military campaign by government forces and their allied militias in Maarat al-Numan in northern Idlib province left the city looking like a ghost town, Muhammad al-Uthman, a resident of the city, said in an interview with Syria Direct. Nearly all its residents vacated and only a handful returned to check on property they left behind.
Aproape două milioane de români riscă să rămână fără pensii, generația celor născuți în anii 1970, ne avertizează guvernul PNL. ”Sistemul de pensii este ca un Caritas”, ne spune ministrul de Finante. „Se lucrează la un proiect. Dacă vă aduceţi aminte, există şi în Camera Deputaţilor un astfel de proiect prin care să poţi să optezi pentru a putea lucra până la 70 de ani. Dacă se va ajunge la concluzia că există o susţinere pentru această idee, este posibil să luăm această măsură”, spune vicepremierul Raluca Turcan. Tot ea spune că Pilonul II de pensii trebuie întărit, că pensia trebuie cât mai mult asigurată dintr-o sursă de finanțare alternativă.
Clinical and quick, the killing of Hamas military commander Mahmoud al-Mabhouh looked exactly like a Mossad assassination.
Hours after checking into his five-star Dubai hotel room, al-Mabhouh lay suffocated and his killers were on planes out of the country on fake British, Irish and Canadian passports.
Human rights campaigners have condemned the British government for reportedly agreeing to repatriate children from Syrian camps on the condition they are separated from their mother.
Norway’s government risks splitting after a coalition partner threatened to pull its support over the repatriation of a woman who joined Islamic State in Syria.
While most European countries have been reluctant to take back their citizens who joined the Islamic State (IS) terror group in Syria and Iraq, the government of Kosovo has taken a different path by repatriating dozens of its people with plans to reintegrate them into society.
Even if violent attacks are now mostly concentrated around the border of Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso, the unstable area subject to terrorism covers a huge area — equivalent to half of Europe or the United States — and is spread over five countries…. Because it involves such a huge territory, and because Europeans simply do not have the air support and intelligence capabilities of the United States, American support in the fight against terrorism in the Sahel is critical.
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey is starting deployment of troops to Libya in support of the embattled United Nations-recognized Government of National Accord (GNA) and in line with agreements relating to maritime border demarcation and enhanced security cooperation.
La secrétaire générale adjointe aux Affaires politiques de l’ONU, Rosemary DiCarlo, a exprimé mercredi lors d’un entretien avec le président nigérien Mahamadou Issoufou à Niamey les préoccupations de son institution devant la détérioration de la situation sécuritaire au Niger et dans la région, a-t-on appris jeudi de source officielle.
Les experts et les ministres de « l’Initiative d’Accra » ont réaffirmé leur détermination à combattre le trafic de cigarettes qui est devenu une importante source de financement du terrorisme et d’autres réseaux criminels en Afrique de l’Ouest.