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Myanmar’s business communi-ty is welcoming a United States promise to lift sanctions imposed against the country during almost 50 years of repressive military rule, but many set to gain are the allies of the very people that the in-ternational community fought for so long to keep at bay. The coun-try’s former capital Yangon was often said to be frozen in time due to the crippling embargoes im-posed by the international com-munity as it sought to push juntas into improving their human rights records and return...

Iraqi Foreign Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said late Saturday his country does not recognize a Houthi governing council in war-torn Yem-en. Al-Jaafari met with his Yemeni counterpart Abdulmalik Al-Mekhlafi on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meetings in New York for talks on bilateral relations between the two countries.

President Francois Hollande has said French authorities will “completely and definitively” scrap the refugee camp in Calais in northern France by the end of 2016, which is home to at least 7,000 people hoping to cross over into the U.K. Speak-ing at a press briefing as he visit-ed the port city Monday, Hollande said: “The situation [at the camp] is unacceptable and everyone here knows it… We must dismantle the camp completely and definitively.” He called the camp was a “human-itarian emergency”. On Saturday, Hollande also vowed to “complete-ly dismantle” the camp, which is also known as...

The U.S. and Russia on Thursday failed to revive a recently ended truce in Syria, according to the UN envoy to Syria. Staffan de Mistura told reporters that a meeting of the International Syria Support Group in New York on the margins of the UN Gen-eral Assembly was “long, painful and disappoint-ing.” The U.S. and Russia brokered a cessation of

hostilities between Syrian the regime and opposi-tion forces on Sept. 8. But the deal collapsed Mon-day after the U.S. inadvertently struck a Syrian regime camp killing 62 regime soldiers. De Mistura said that announcing the termination of the ces-sation of hostilities was wrong and added that he wants to see parties to the war...

International actors blamed each other Sunday during an urgent UN Security Council as a Syrian city of nearly 275,000 residents descends into new levels of warfare. Aleppo is being pummeled in a joint oper-ation by Russian and Syrian forc-es that began three days ago, af-ter a seven-day truce ended failed to deliver any humanitarian relief to Syrians. “A so called military solution or victory is impossible in

Syria,” the UN’s Syria envoy Staf-fan de Mistura told the Council in his report. Holding out hope, he said a “tiny window of opportuni-ty still exists” for the U.S. and Rus-sia to come to an agreement for a cease-fire. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power said at least 139 people have been killed in more than 150 airstrikes in three days of the Aleppo offensive, describing the situation as “obscene”...

The Union of European Turkish Democrats organized a commem-oration on Sunday in London for those who lost their lives in the at-tempted coup on July 15 in which 241 people were martyred and around 2,200 others injured. The event started with a minute’s si-lence for those who lost their lives defending their country, followed by the Turkish national anthem.

As well as members of the Turk-ish community in the U.K., three members of the Turkish parlia-ment from the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party -- Ayse Sula Koseoglu, Adnan Gunnar and Faruk Caturoglu -- also attend-ed. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Koseglu said before coming to the U.K., the Turkish lawmakers had been in Germany to...

Turkey’s foreign minister has used an article in a U.S. newspaper to say there is “no difference between the terrorist attacks of New York, Orlando, Brus-sels, Paris or Ankara”. Mevlut Cavu-soglu, writing for the Miami Herald

newspaper, said the spillover of “ter-rorism and extremism” from Syria threatened many countries. “Whether it is Daesh, the PKK/YPG or al-Qaida, we have to show equal determination in fighting them.”

At least 85 people were killed and 178 others injured Sunday in Syri-an regime and Russia airstrikes on residential areas in Aleppo, a civil defense official told Anadolu Agen-cy. Najib Ansari said regime’s heli-copters and warplanes, along with Russian jets, pounded al-Kallasa, Bustan al-Basha, Ard al Hamra, Tariq al-Bab, Mesir, Zinbdie, Sali-hiya and Ansar neighborhoods in

Aleppo, all of which are current-ly under siege by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. Numerious children and women were among those killed. The at-tacks were in residential areas con-trolled by opposition forces with “15 phosphorous and 18 vacuum bombs,” Ansari said. “A total of 244 civilians have lost their lives and 651 others...

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A former senior official of the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has accused the group of being a “sheath” of the PKK terrorist organization. Speaking to Anado-lu Agency in an interview, Abdulkarim al-Ubaid, who spoke on condition that his lo-cation is not revealed, said though he served as a senior SDF executive, he did not have a say in the group’s decision-making process.

In October 2015, the PYD -- the PKK’s Syr-ian wing -- brought small groups of Arab fighters to form the SDF, promising to share weapons and logistics offered by the United States. Ubaid, whose al-Tahrir Brigade was part of the SDF until three weeks ago, said they were pressured by PYD/PKK militants when Arabs sought to gain control of their own lands. As a result of that pressure, they

broke away from the SDF. “The PKK dom-inates the SDF; the decisions are being tak-en by the [terrorist] organization,” he said. “The PKK does not only dominate the SDF but also the PYD,” Ubaid stressed. He insisted the groups composing the SDF were just a facade and that the SDF was just a “sheath” used by the PKK “to conceal their separatist goals and gain legitimacy in the territory...

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Syrian Democratic Forces is PKK’s ‘sheath’: ex-officialFormer SDF figure says PKK commanders want to head towards Turkey after establishing cantons in Syria