Turkey to crush ‘terror army’ to be set up by US in Syria: Erdoğan President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Jan. 15 threatened to thwart the creation of a U.S-backed 30,000-strong border security force manned mostly by the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in northern Syria.

Interior Minister Süleyman Soylu said regarding the Turkish Armed Forces' Operation Olive Branch: "This operation has a lesson to give, not only to the terror organisations but to the whole world. This lesson is to demonstrate that this operation is conducted also for democracy."

As reported by Reuters recently School students in Linxia county in Gansu province, home to many members of the Muslim Hui ethnic minority, are prohibited from entering religious buildings on winter break, a district education bureau said, as authorities step up control of religious education. Students must also not read scriptures in classes or in religious buildings,

Tanzania and international media outlets reported on Tanzania Revenues Authority (TRA) collections of up to 8.45% of revenue for the past few months. Speaking at a news conference in Dar es Salaam recently, TRA'S Director for Taxpayer Services and Education, Mr Richard Kayombo praised taxpayers for enabling TRA to raise such amount and the authority is embarking on a nationwide campaign to free register taxpayers’ Identification Number (TIN) to simplify…