Yasin Eken

Turkey conducts largest naval exercise

Turkish Naval Forces is carrying out the strategic and operational exercise with scenarios similar to crisis-tension situations and wartime.

Regime shelling and Russian air raids kill 15 civilians in Syria

The dead include at least eight children, White Helmets Syria Civil Defence says.

Regime troops not in Syria's Manbij city – sources

Regime leader Bashar al Assad's forces claimed to have entered the northern city after the YPG terror group asked for regime's presence. But sources from Manbij told TRT World the regime forces have not entered the city.

Afghanistan's first female coders take on the country's opium problem

Breaking traditional barriers in conservative Herat province the war torn country's first female coders have created a game based on Afghanistan's struggle to eradicate the vast opium poppy fields ruled by the Taliban.

YPG continues to force children to fight in war

As the Turkish military moves forward with Operation Olive Branch in Syria's Afrin region, more examples of children being forced onto the frontline of the war have been discovered.

Morocco orphanage helps kids face tough road ahead

Many of the children living at the Al Najd orphanage are now able to attend school having been rescued from a life on the streets or from violence at home.

Police crackdown on rickshaws to hit locals in Bangladesh's Dhaka

Dhaka is home to roughly 15 million people, and rickshaws are a primary form of transportation.

Operation Olive Branch one week on – Here's what you need to know

On January 20, Turkey launched Operation Olive Branch in Syria's northwestern Afrin region to rid the area of US-backed YPG/PKK. Here's what we know so far.

Archaeologists work to unravel secrets from Afghanistan's ancient mosque

Archaeologists in Afghanistan are trying to unravel the secrets of one of the world's oldest mosques. They're trying to understand just how the building survived centuries of earthquakes, invasions and plenty of other mysteries.

Iraq's Baghdad cafe still serving 100 years after opening its doors

From British rule to modern-day Iraq, Baghdad's Shabandar Cafe has lived through the birth of a nation, the toppling of its monarchy, decades of domination by Saddam Hussein, the drama of the US-led invasion and the bloody chaos that followed.

Jordan switches on world's largest solar plant in refugee camp

The plant will provide the Zataari camp 14 hours of electricity a day at zero cost and bring the refugees one step closer to a sense of normality.

Disabled people make walking aids for others in Egypt

Disabled people running a prosthetics factory say they are trying to change disability into accessibility.