ISTANBUL -- The suspect of the deadly blast in the Turkish largest city of Istanbul confessed to police that she carried out the bomb attack, Turkish authorities announced Monday.

The Istanbul Police Department said in a statement that the suspect was a Syrian national named Ahlam Albashir and she confessed that she received the attack order from the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and its branch in Syria, the People's Protection Units (YPG). (Istanbul-Bomb Attack-Suspect)

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BAGHDAD -- One person was killed and 10 wounded Monday after the Iranian forces carried out cross-border bombardments on the Iranian Kurdish opposition parties' positions in northern Iraq.

Iranian forces carried out bombardments in the morning, using two ballistic missiles and three booby-trapped drones targeting the group's headquarters in Sulaimaniyah province and Erbil province in the semi-autonomous region of Kurdistan, a source from a regional Kurdish security service, known as Asayish, told Xinhua anonymously. (Iraq-Cross-border Bombing-Kurdistan)

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ALGIERS -- Sixteen people were killed and three others injured on Monday in a road accident in southern Algeria, said a statement of the Algerian civil protection authority.

The accident occurred when two vehicles collided in the southern province of Bordj Badji Mokhtar, it added, without detailing the cause. (Algeria-Road Accident-Death Toll)

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TEHRAN -- The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman on Monday stressed that efforts are still underway to continue the talks on the revival of a 2015 nuclear deal, according to the official news agency IRNA.

Making the remarks in an address to reporters at a weekly press conference in Tehran, Nasser Kanaani added the channels for exchanging messages between Iran and the other sides are still active. (Iran-Nuclear Deal-Talks) Enditem

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