Middle East crisis: Israeli forces ‘fired on World Food Programme convoy in Gaza’ – as it happened
by Yohannes Lowe from World news | The Guardian on (#6TBSE)
Statement from UN agency strongly condemns horrifying incident' on Sunday which it says risked lives of staff
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Turkey's foreign minister, Hakan Fidan, has told a news conference that it was only a matter of time" before Syrian Kurdish fighters - seen by the west as essential in the fight against Islamic State jihadists - will be wiped out.
Speaking in a joint press conference with his Jordanian counterpart Ayman Safadi, he told journalists:
Conditions in Syria have changed. We believe it's only a matter of time before PKK/YPG is eliminated.
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