At least 18 people, including a child, have been found dead in Bulgaria in an abandoned truck near the capital Sofia, officials said. The truck was transporting timber and carrying illegal migrants hidden in a compartment, the country’s interior ministry said on Friday, adding it was found near the village Read more
The commander of the main US-backed Kurdish-led force in Syria said Saturday they have halted operations against the ISIS group due to Turkish attacks on northern Syria over the past week. Mazloum Abdi of the Syrian Democratic Forces told reporters that after nearly a week of Turkish airstrikes on northern Read more
Turkey cannot endure a new influx of refugees, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoganwas quoted as saying by local media today. Erdogan spoke at the official opening of the 16th Conference of the Parliamentary Union of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation at the Dolmabahçe Palace in Istanbul. As everyone knows, developments Read more
In fulfillment of the mission of the Armed Forces “Contribution to National Security in Peacetime” from 20.00 on November 1, 2021 over 350 servicemen with more than 40 units of equipment from the Land Forces provide assistance to the Ministry of Interior for the protection of Bulgarians – the Greek Read more
In September, a total of 1,626 third-country nationals were detained in Bulgaria, according to statistics from the Ministry of Interior. Of these, 154 people were detained at the entrance to the state border, 128 at the exit without registration, and 1344 were found to be staying illegally in the interior Read more
The new Taliban government in Afghanistan has warned that if sanctions against the country remain in place, there could be a flow of economic refugees, AFP reported. Foreign Minister Amir Khan Mutaki told Western diplomats during their recent Doha meetings that “the weakening of the Afghan government is in no Read more
Some of the refugees fleeing the Taliban’s brutality in Afghanistan��are taking an arduous route across neighboring Iran to try and cross into Turkey. We met a family in the Turkish border city of Van who made it out of Afghanistan the night before the capital fell to the Taliban. “I don’t have money, Read more
Several hundred Bulgarian military service personnel will help guard the Bulgarian border to prevent illegal entry into Bulgarian territory, caretaker Defence Minister Georgi Panayotov said on August 26, the ministry said in a statement. After an August 25 co-ordination meeting in Elhovo with the Ministry of Interior, it was confirmed Read more