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Al Arabiya
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Al Arabiya
Erdogan says won't let terror ‘drag Syria back to instability'
Turkey will not allow extremists to drag Syria back into chaos and instability, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday after a suicide attack killed 22 at a Damascus church. 'We will never allow our neighbor and brother Syria... be dragged into a new environment of instability through proxy terrorist organizations,' he said, vowing to support the new government's fight against such groups. He did not explain what he meant by 'proxy' groups but vowed that Turkey would 'continue to support the Syrian government's fight against terrorism.' The Damascus government blamed Sunday night's shooting and suicide attack -- the first of its kind in the Syrian capital since the fall of strongman Bashar al-Assad six months ago -- on ISIS. It cast the attack as a bid to 'undermine national coexistence and to destabilize the country,' which only began emerging from the post-civil war chaos after al-Assad's ouster six months ago. Turkey was a key backer of the anti-government forces who ousted al-Assad under the leadership of Ahmed al-Sharaa, now the interim president, and has repeatedly offered its operational and military to fight ISIS and other militant threats.
Arab News
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Arab News
Erdogan says won't let terror ‘drag Syria back to instability'
ISTANBUL: Turkiye will not allow extremists to drag Syria back into chaos and instability, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday after a suicide attack killed 22 at a Damascus church.'We will never allow our neighbor and brother Syria... be dragged into a new environment of instability through proxy terrorist organizations,' he said, vowing to support the new government's fight against such groups.
Free Malaysia Today
23-06-2025
- Politics
- Free Malaysia Today
Russia says Middle East is plunging into ‘abyss'
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Moscow favoured an end to hostilities and a move to diplomacy as soon as possible. (EPA Images pic) ST PETERSBURG : The Kremlin warned on Friday that the Middle East was plunging into 'an abyss of instability and war' and said Moscow was worried by events and still stood ready to mediate. Russia, which has warm ties with Iran and also maintains close links to Israel, has urged the US not to strike Iran and has called for a diplomatic solution to the crisis around Tehran's nuclear programme to be found. Asked on Friday if Russia had any red lines when it came to the situation, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that countries in the region were the ones who should have their own red lines. 'The region is plunging into an abyss of instability and war,' Peskov said. 'This war is fraught with (the risk of) geographic expansion and unpredictable consequences. This region is at our borders. It's potentially dangerous for us and we are concerned.' Although Russia does not border any country in the Middle East, its southern North Caucasus region borders a belt of former Soviet republics which in turn border Iran and Turkey. Peskov said that Moscow observed for now that Israel wanted to continue its military action against Iran but said Russia has lines of communication open with Israel, the U.S. and Iran. Peskov said it was hard to predict whether an offer by Putin to mediate in the crisis would be taken up or not but said that Moscow favoured an end to hostilities and a move to diplomacy as soon as possible. Russian nuclear energy chief Alexei Likhachev said the situation at Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, where hundreds of Russian specialists work, was 'normal' and under control. The Israeli military said at one point on Thursday that it had struck the Russian-built Bushehr facility but later said the comment had been made by mistake. Likhachev, head of the state nuclear energy corporation Rosatom, said on Thursday that any attack on the plant could cause a Chernobyl-style nuclear disaster. On Friday he told reporters in St Petersburg: 'We…very much hope that all our signals from yesterday reached the Israeli leadership.' Likhachev said Russia has just over 300 staff at Bushehr and a total presence of about 500 people, including family members.
RNZ News
22-06-2025
- Business
- RNZ News
Fuel prices may rise due to Iran
Instability in the middle east often raises the question of what could happen to fuel prices. AA principal policy advisor Terry Collins spoke to Alexa Cook. Tags: To embed this content on your own webpage, cut and paste the following: See terms of use.
Khaleej Times
22-06-2025
- Politics
- Khaleej Times
UAE urges end to escalation after US strikes on Iran
The United Arab Emirates urged on Sunday an immediate halt to escalation to "avoid serious repercussions" in the region following strikes by the U.S. on Iran's nuclear facilities. It warned that such actions could lead the region to "new levels of instability," according to a statement from the foreign ministry.
