The Balkan Chronicle

Italian media state with certainty Montenegro is completely controlled by companies connected to the Rothschild family, which financed the project for Montenegro independence, reports local daily "Dan".

Turkish sources say that Syria has turned its Russian-made SCUD missiles towards Turkey, Press TV reports.

The sources said that the missiles have been deployed in Syria's Kamisili and Ayn Diwar regions, Press TV's Ankara correspondent reported on Saturday.

The two regions are close to the borders of Turkey and Iraq.

Albania has registered 65 new HIV/AIDS cases in the past ten months, the Public Health Institute has confirmed.

The number is the largest ever registered for a 10-month period of a year, MIA reports from Tirana.

" alt="Turkish_warplanes" src="/images/stories/special_interes/other_interes/Turkish_warplanes.jpg" width="150" height="150" />Turkish warplanes have targeted alleged bases of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) terrorist group in Iraq's northern Kurdish region, wounding at least one civilian, Kurdish officials say.

The Sulaimaniyah and Arbil provinces were raided by the Turkish fighter jets on Tuesday night, AFP reported.

Hassan Abdullah, the mayor of the Qalat Dizah area in Sulaimaniyah, said the 20-year-old civilian, Ismail Baz Hamed, was wounded during the bombing.