Major Events in 2019 (9)

SEPTEMBER

Sept. 1

- Saudi-led coalition fighter jets strike a prison by the Houthis in southwestern Yemeni province of Dhamar, killing 156 and wounding 50 others.

- Category-5 hurricane, Dorian, hits the Bahamas and southern shores of the U.S., leading to $3.4 billion material damage in the Bahamas, death of 73 and disappearance of hundreds.

- At least 100 people are reported killed in a fresh fighting between the Afghan government forces and Taliban in northern provinces of Faryab and Kunduz.

Sept. 2

- An agreement on paper is reached in principle with the Taliban, top U.S. peace negotiator Zalmay Khalilzad says, adding that the U.S. forces will vacate five military bases in Afghanistan in initial 135 days after signing of the deal.

- British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s incendiary article on Muslim women wearing the face veil leads to a 375% rise in incidents of Islamophobia in the U.K., an anti-Muslim hatred watchdog reports.

Sept. 3

- Ahead of a bilateral meeting between the Russian president and Japanese premier in Russia's port city of Vladivostok, reports emerge that Moscow has deployed new missile systems “near” islands which are claimed by Japan in the Pacific Ocean.

Sept. 4

- Search engine giant Google and its subsidiary YouTube will pay a record $170 million to settle allegations by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and New York Attorney General that the YouTube video-sharing service illegally collected personal information of children without their parents’ consent.

- Britain’s House of Commons passes a bill that blocks a no-deal Brexit on Oct. 31 in a crucial vote.

Sept. 5

- Mothers launch a sit-in protest in front of the provincial office of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Diyarbakir, accusing it of kidnapping their children into the PKK terror group.

- The first Sudanese government of transitional period is established after the military coup of April.

Sept. 6

- Venezuela deploys more than 3,000 troops on its Colombian border after the South American nation declares an orange alert, due to ''threat of military aggression'' from the neighboring country.

Sept. 7

- The Indian Space Research Organization loses contact with Chandrayaan-2’s Vikram lander just minutes before it was to land to on the lunar surface.

- The U.S. administration halts peace talks with the Taliban after a soldier of the former dies in an attack in Afghan capital Kabul.

Sept. 8

- The first joint Turkish-U.S. ground patrols begin for a planned safe zone east of Euphrates in Syria.

- Spain's Rafael Nadal wins the U.S. Open to claim his 19th Grand Slam title.

- Turkish women’s national volleyball team become the 2019 CEV Volleyball European Championship runners-up, losing epic final to Serbia 2-3.

Sept. 9

- Lebanon’s Hezbollah announces it shot down an Israeli drone in the southern border area.

Sept. 10

- PKK/YPG terror group detained, forcibly disappeared nearly 3,000 individuals in Syria, a U.K.-based Syrian rights group says in a report.

- U.S. President Donald Trump announces he has fired National Security Advisor John Bolton over strong policy disagreements, vowing to appoint a successor within a week.

Sept. 11

- The Archbishop of Canterbury apologizes for a massacre in which hundreds of people were killed by troops under British rule a century ago.

- Number of people killed by the dengue outbreak in the Philippines climb to 1,000.

Sept. 12

- Sudan and South Sudan agree to fully cooperate to ensure peace, officials of the two countries said.

- A train crashes in southeastern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 50 people.

Sept. 13

- Hamza bin Laden, son of slain al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, was killed in a U.S. counter-terrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region, President Donald Trump confirms.

Sept. 14

- Fire erupts in two facilities of Saudi Arabia’s oil company Aramco following strikes by armed drones, the country’s official press agency reports. Riyadh announces to stop oil production temporary, from its two oil facilities run by Saudi Aramco.

Sept. 15

- Spain wins the 2019 FIBA Basketball World Cup after beating Argentina 95-75 in Sunday’s final in Beijing.

- Final parts of the second battery of the Russian S-400 missile defense system arrive in capital Ankara, Turkish National Defense Ministry says.

Sept. 16

- Turkey, Russia, and Iran stress their strong commitment to Syria’s sovereignty, independence, unity and territorial integrity in a joint statement following a trilateral meeting in the Turkish capital Ankara.

- Heavy rain in Sudan triggers deadly flooding that kills at least 85.

- The UN says evidence regarding the Myanmar government's attitude towards Rohingya Muslims suggest that attacks have a genocidal intention, making them suffer from a systematic and large-scale oppression.

Sept. 17

- Turkish athlete Riza Kayaalp claims the gold medal in the World Wrestling Championships in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

- Turkey’s largest aerospace and technology event Teknofest launched in Istanbul. The six-day festival, hosted by Istanbul Ataturk Airport, is jointly organized by the Turkish Technology Team Foundation and Industry and Technology Ministry. Anadolu Agency is the global communications partner of the event.

Sept. 18

- Attacks on oil facilities in Saudi Arabia constitute an Iranian “act of war”, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says as he arrives in the Kingdom.

- Nurten Akkus, a Turkish kindergarten principal in the Black Sea province of Samsun, wins the “global teacher” award in New Delhi.

Sept. 19

- Scores of civilians are feared dead in a U.S. drone strike in eastern Afghanistan close to the Tora Bora mountains.

- Iran’s foreign minister threatens “all-out war” in case of strikes against his country by the U.S. or Saudi Arabia.

Sept. 20

- Demonstrators protesting Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi take to streets for the first time, and over 1,000 people get arrested.

Sept. 21

- U.S. President Donald Trump approves the deployment of forces to bolster Saudi Arabia’s air defenses following an attack on the kingdom’s oil infrastructure which has been blamed on Iran.

Sept. 22

- Yellow Vest protesters take to the streets across France for the 45th consecutive week, against the policies of President Emmanuel Macron.

- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo calls on Central Asian countries to dismiss China’s demands to repatriate Uighurs, a mostly Muslim ethnic group from Xinjiang, in China’s west.

Sept. 23

- Over 350 people are arrested across Egypt in the latest wave of demonstrations against Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi.

- U.S. President Donald Trump says Monday that Turkey’s president has become “a friend” following negotiations to free an American pastor from Turkish custody.

Sept. 24

- A 5.8-magnitude earthquake hits Pakistan-controlled Azad Kashmir, killing 40 and wounding 680, with 172 of them in critical condition.

Sept. 25

- Israeli forces detain Jerusalem Affairs Minister Fadi al-Hadami of the Palestinian Authority, according to an official statement.

- Russia will host the 2021 UEFA Champions League final, says Europe’s governing body on football.

Sept. 26

- Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman says he bears responsibility for the murder of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi because it “happened under his watch”.

- Turkey, Pakistan and Malaysia agree to jointly fight the rising global trend of Islamophobia, mainly in the West.

- U.S. intelligence indicates Syrian regime forces used chlorine as a chemical weapon in a May 19 attack on Latakia province, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says.

- According to a research by Indian women organizations, 13,000 young men have been kidnapped in Jammu Kashmir since its special status was abolished.

Sept. 27

- Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan warns the world that the worsening situation in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir has the potential to bring two nuclear powers to the brink of war.

Sept. 29

- Death toll from Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo rises to 2,014 since its outbreak in July 2018, the country’s Health Ministry says.

- At least 90 people have died in the northeastern Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar over the last four days after heavy rains wreaked havoc in the region.

Sept. 30

- A jailed Uighur academic and a group from Balkans, formed to help postwar reconciliation in the region, are jointly awarded with a top European human rights prize.