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Türkiye Urges Regional Countries to Take United Stance Against ‘Israel’s Barbaric War’

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (AFP)
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (AFP)
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Türkiye Urges Regional Countries to Take United Stance Against ‘Israel’s Barbaric War’

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (AFP)
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (AFP)

Türkiye on Monday stressed that it cannot remain silent to the collective targeting of Gaza under the pretext of destroying the Hamas movement, calling on regional countries to take a united stance against Israel's barbarity.
Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said his country was engaged in busy diplomatic efforts to end the massacres and de-escalate tensions after Israel’s continued attacks against civilians in the Gaza Strip.
At a briefing at the Planning and Budget Committee, Fidan said it is significant that regional countries collectively reacted to Israel.
“We never accept attacks targeting civilians and since the crisis began, we made it clear that the civilians should be absolutely protected. We cannot remain silent to collective targeting of hospitals, schools and mosques in the name of eradicating Hamas,” the Turkish top diplomat said.
Türkiye has sent 11 planeloads of humanitarian aid to Egypt to be delivered to Gaza, said Fidan, adding that a large ship with field hospitals, medical equipment, medicines, and other aid materials has also reached Egypt.
“We have also facilitated the evacuation of 27 patients and 12 attendants from Gaza, and have brought them to Ankara. Additionally, 61 patients and 49 attendants were transferred to Egypt,” he added.
Last Sunday, a group of 87 people, consisting of Turks, Turkish Cypriots and their relatives, arrived in Egypt from Gaza on Sunday and was set to fly to Istanbul late on Monday, the Foreign Ministry said.
In a related development, Turkish Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus condemned the fact that UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres was denied entry to the Gaza Strip through the Rafah crossing.
Speaking at the first session of the 9th Meeting of Parliament Speakers of MIKTA held in Indonesia, Kurtulmus said, “If oppression against Palestinians cannot be ended ... if this war spreads to neighboring countries, I am afraid that it will ignite a global conflict.”
He therefore underscored the necessity of establishing a new world system characterized by fairness and justice.
The Speaker also stated that the international community has to work with the code of “urgent action” to end the humanitarian sufferings in Gaza.

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Iraqi Kataeb Hezbollah Say Commander Killed in Strike in Southern Iraq

Members of the Iraqi armed group Kataeb Hezbollah attend the funeral of their members, who were killed in an airstrike that targeted a Hashd al‑Shaabi headquarters near the western al‑Qaim district on the Syrian border, amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Suda
Members of the Iraqi armed group Kataeb Hezbollah attend the funeral of their members, who were killed in an airstrike that targeted a Hashd al‑Shaabi headquarters near the western al‑Qaim district on the Syrian border, amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Suda
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Iraqi Kataeb Hezbollah Say Commander Killed in Strike in Southern Iraq

Members of the Iraqi armed group Kataeb Hezbollah attend the funeral of their members, who were killed in an airstrike that targeted a Hashd al‑Shaabi headquarters near the western al‑Qaim district on the Syrian border, amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Suda
Members of the Iraqi armed group Kataeb Hezbollah attend the funeral of their members, who were killed in an airstrike that targeted a Hashd al‑Shaabi headquarters near the western al‑Qaim district on the Syrian border, amid the US-Israel conflict with Iran, in Baghdad, Iraq, March 2, 2026. REUTERS/Thaier Al-Suda

The Iran-backed Kataeb Hezbollah in Iraq said on Thursday that one of its leaders was killed in a strike on southern Iraq a day earlier.

The Secretary-General of the group, Al-Hajj Abu Hussein al-Hamidawi, mourned in a statement “the great leader, brother, Ali Hassan al-Furayji," who carried out "his duties... for more than two decades."

Two sources from the armed faction told Agence France-Presse on Wednesday that a strike targeted a car near the Jurf al-Nasr base, where the faction is deployed in southern Iraq, resulting in the death of two members.

The death toll rose to three after the death of the leader was confirmed.

One of the sources described the attack as a "Zionist-American strike."

The Jurf al-Nasr base, also known as Jurf al-Sakhar, in southern Iraq, was the first Iraqi target of strikes attributed to Israel and the United States, which later extended to other areas.

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Iraq Says it is Directly Affected by the War: ‘We are Under Attack from Both Sides’

Smoke and flames rise near Erbil International Airport in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region following explosions caused by intensive interception operations carried out by air defense systems (dpa)
Smoke and flames rise near Erbil International Airport in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region following explosions caused by intensive interception operations carried out by air defense systems (dpa)
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Iraq Says it is Directly Affected by the War: ‘We are Under Attack from Both Sides’

Smoke and flames rise near Erbil International Airport in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region following explosions caused by intensive interception operations carried out by air defense systems (dpa)
Smoke and flames rise near Erbil International Airport in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region following explosions caused by intensive interception operations carried out by air defense systems (dpa)

Military escalation across Iraq continues following the outbreak of the Israeli-US war on Iran, as the country is now facing a series of reciprocal attacks by multiple actors on its territory, along with mounting economic damage caused by disruptions to its oil exports.

“Iraq has become one of the countries directly affected by the ongoing conflict,” Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said, noting that the country was “being subjected to attacks from both sides of the conflict.”

Iraqi military and security bases, as well as positions belonging to factions affiliated with the Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), have been targeted by Israeli and US airstrikes. At the same time, Iran and pro-Iranian factions have targeted American interests and military bases in the Kurdistan Region and other parts of the country.

Hussein made the remarks during a phone call with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, during which the two discussed rapidly evolving military developments in the region and their political and economic repercussions, according to a statement from the Iraqi Foreign Ministry.

Hussein ruled out an immediate ceasefire, saying the widening scope of the confrontation and the intensification of attacks have become daily features of the conflict.

He also warned that the closure of the Strait of Hormuz and ongoing military operations “have disrupted maritime navigation in the region.”

“Iraq is facing increasing difficulties in exporting its oil,” he underlined, a situation shared by several countries in the region and one that could have serious consequences for global energy markets.

He cautioned that the war will lead to a crisis in the energy market and rising prices, which will negatively affect the economies of the region and the world.

New Attacks

Iran and allied factions targeted Erbil International Airport and the nearby Harir Air Base with dozens of rockets and drones on Wednesday. Groups calling themselves the “Islamic Resistance factions” announced that they had carried out more than 28 attacks against US and local targets inside Iraq.

Meanwhile, Camp Victoria, near Baghdad International Airport, was also targeted by rocket attacks launched by armed factions, though Iraqi security forces said they thwarted the strikes.

Kurdistan

On Wednesday, an Iranian Kurdish fighter was reportedly killed in a missile strike targeting a headquarters of the Kurdistan Freedom Party (PAK) in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, according to a source within the party cited by AFP.

The autonomous Kurdistan Region hosts camps operated by Iranian Kurdish opposition groups.

A party spokesperson, Khalil Kani Sanani, accused “the Iranian regime” of launching three missiles at a camp housing the families of party members, killing one camp guard and wounding three others. The camp lies east of Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region.

On Tuesday, a camp housing Iranian Kurdish fighters and their families in Kurdistan was struck by a drone attack that left one person injured, according to Mohammad Nazif Qader, a member of the opposition Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDPI).

Iran classifies these Kurdish parties as “terrorist organizations” and accuses them of serving “Western or Israeli interests.”

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Sudan Drone Strike Kills 18 People

File photo: A view shows a large plume of smoke and fire rising from fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025. (Reuters)
File photo: A view shows a large plume of smoke and fire rising from fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025. (Reuters)
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Sudan Drone Strike Kills 18 People

File photo: A view shows a large plume of smoke and fire rising from fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025. (Reuters)
File photo: A view shows a large plume of smoke and fire rising from fuel depot in Port Sudan, Sudan, May 6, 2025. (Reuters)

A drone strike on a Sudanese city under paramilitary control killed 18 people, a medic working in the area told AFP on Thursday, while blaming the army for the attack.

Both sides in Sudan's war have resorted to drone warfare, sparking frequent and strong condemnation from the UN, AFP said.

The strike on Al-Mojlad on Wednesday killed 18 people and wounded 25 others, according to a medic working at the city hospital who added that he blamed the military for the attack.

The paramilitary RSF have been fighting the army for nearly three years, and had accused the military of conducting a drone strike on a market in Al-Mojlad.