Turkey's prime minister warned Wednesday that the crackdown following a failed coup was not over, as authorities issued arrest warrants for dozens of former newspaper staff.
A senior minister also revealed that a major army shake-up had been planned (...)
Hillary Clinton's campaign on Wednesday lashed out at Donald Trump for encouraging Russia to trawl the former secretary of state's emails, describing his comments as a "national security issue."
"This has to be the first time that a major (...)
Turkish court has remanded in custody 26 senior generals on charges of playing a role in the failed coup aimed at toppling President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, state media said on Tuesday.
The 26 placed under arrest by the Ankara court include former (...)
Several thousand cinema lovers joined top artists in Tehran on Sunday to bid farewell to renowned Iranian film director Abbas Kiarostami following his death last week in Paris.
Kiarostami, who won the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival (...)
Nineteen people, including 12 Pakistani nationals, have been arrested in Saudi Arabia following suicide attacks on Monday, including one near Islam's second-holiest site in the city of Medina, the kingdom's Interior Ministry said on Thursday.
Seven (...)
At least 213 people were killed in Sunday's Baghdad suicide bombing claimed by the Islamic State group, officials said, making it one of the deadliest ever militant attacks in Iraq.
The suicide car bombing, which ripped through a crowded shopping (...)
UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday urged Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to take "courageous steps" toward peace on a farewell visit to Israel and the Palestinian territories.
Ban visited the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip, met Netanyahu and (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday lauded a highly anticipated deal reached the previous day to restore ties with Turkey, six years after a deadly raid on an aid flotilla soured relations.
Netanyahu, speaking after meeting US (...)
The ISIL terrorist group is trying a new method against peasants in villages near Qara Taba region (122km from East of Baquba in Diyala province) by sending gangs of motorcyclists to blackmail them.
The villages which are near Hauz Hamrain area have (...)
The Islamic State group launched a surprise assault Monday near its besieged stronghold in northern Syria, killing residents of two villages it recaptured from US-backed fighters, a monitor said.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said IS had (...)
In deliberately leaked memo, 51 serving US diplomats now say ‘enough,' insisting that Obama has moral obligation to stop carnage.
WASHINGTON - Exasperated US diplomats are in open revolt over Barack Obama's Syria policy, but radical change is (...)
UNHCR reports record 65 million people displaced worldwide, underscoring twin pressures fuelling unprecedented global displacement crisis.
As conflict and persecution force growing numbers of people to flee, anti-migrant political sentiment has (...)
Shiite Huthi rebels in Yemen announced on Sunday the release of 276 government loyalists who had been held captive for months, in a gesture of good will.
The rebels' sabanews.net website said 200 detainees were set free in Rada, a town in the (...)
US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Russia on Wednesday that US patience on the Syria conflict and the issue of President Bashar al-Assad's fate is running out.
"Russia needs to understand that our patience is not infinite, in fact it is very (...)
Yemen's warring parties have discussed forming military and security committees to oversee a transition period aimed at ending 14 months of fighting, the UN special envoy said on Wednesday.
"Discussions continued on security and military issues, (...)
Dozens of activist groups opposed to Syria's regime accused the United Nations on Wednesday of "capitulating" to Damascus on aid access to desperate civilians.
The UN humanitarian coordinator for Syria, Yaacoub El Hillo, said however that while aid (...)
Iraqi forces on Monday said jihadist fighters were attempting to flee Fallujah by blending in with civilians who have been escaping the besieged city in their thousands in recent days.
The Pentagon said meanwhile that US Apache helicopters hit an (...)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said a long-dormant Arab peace initiative with the Palestinians that he has spoken of reviving must be changed before Israel can support it.
Netanyahu made the comments on Monday night to members of his Likud (...)
Palestinians along with a group of Muslim countries have lashed out a UN decision to elect Israel as the chairman of one of its permanent committees for the first time in the history of Israeli occupation.
Danny Danon, Israel's representative at the (...)
Iraqi forces on Monday said jihadist fighters were attempting to flee Fallujah by blending in with civilians who have been escaping the besieged city in their thousands in recent days.
The Pentagon said meanwhile that US Apache helicopters hit an (...)
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has signed into law a reform lifting immunity for lawmakers, his office said, in a move critics believe is aimed at evicting pro-Kurdish MPs from parliament.
Erdogan's approval came late Tuesday, less than a (...)
The commander of Iraq's operation to retake Fallujah from the Islamic State group said Tuesday victory was days away, but progress had been slowed by huge numbers of bombs and traps.
"The security forces are advancing towards central Fallujah from (...)
Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi on Thursday said he would support a government of national unity, as long as it included Nobel Prize winning groups the UGTT union and UTICA.
Any change of government would require the decommission of the (...)
Aid drops to besieged areas in Syria are not expected to begin immediately, the United Nations said Thursday, despite urgent calls from France and Britain for deliveries to get started.
"As long as the World Food Programme has not yet finalised its (...)
Saudi Arabia's top religious leader says a stampede which killed 717 pilgrims was beyond human control, official media reported on Saturday, the final day of this year's hajj.
The stampede was the worst disaster in a quarter-century to strike the (...)