World / Middle East

DIYARBAKIR, Turkey: An operation was launched Sunday against PKK terrorists in 18 villages of Diyarbakir province's Lice district of southeastern Turkey, security sources...

IZMIR, Turkey: At least 130 migrants were apprehended off Cesme in western Turkey's Izmir province as they attempted to reach the nearby Greek...

ADEN, Yemen: At least six people were killed in a suspected al-Qaeda attack in southern Yemen on Sunday, according to a local security...

NINEVEH, Iraq: At least 16 people were killed Sunday in deadly clashes between Iraqi forces and IS militants in western Mosul, according to...

HATAY, Turkey: Turkish deputy prime minister said on Sunday that the pilot of a Syrian military jet that crashed near the Turkish-Syrian border...

TRIPOLI: At least 16 soldiers aligned with East Libya-based government were killed in clashes with a rival militia near oil terminals in eastern...

IDLIB, Syria: At least nine civilians were killed and dozens injured in regime attacks on opposition-held areas in war-torn Syria on Saturday, according...

BERLIN: Deniz Yucel, a German-Turkish journalist arrested last week in Turkey, views his solitary confinement in Turkey as "almost a form of torture,"...

Istanbul: Thousands of pro-government women filled an Istanbul arena Sunday in support of a "Yes" vote in next month's referendum on boosting Turkish...

Manbij, Syria: More than 65,000 people have been forced to flee fighting in northern Syria, ravaged in recent weeks by dual offensives on...

HATAY, Turkey: A fighter jet from Syria late Saturday crashed in the southernmost Turkish province of Hatay. A Syrian opposition group has claimed...

ANKARA: Turkey's Foreign Ministry said Saturday that the 2016 Human Rights report on Turkey, which was released Friday by the U.S. Department of...

TEKIRDAG, Turkey: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that Turkey have killed more than 3,000 IS and 10.000 PKK terrorists in the...

HAMA, Syria: At least 10 civilians were killed Saturday and 20 others injured in a regime attack in central Syria, according to an...

BAGHDAD: Iraqi forces have evacuated around 8,000 civilians from western Mosul in the past 24 hours amid an ongoing offensive to drive IS...

Beirut: A total of 66,000 people have been displaced by fighting along two fronts in Syria's fractured north, the United Nation's humanitarian coordination...

BAGHDAD: US-backed Iraqi forces launched on Sunday a new push toward the Islamic State-held old city centre of Mosul, on the western bank...

ISTANBUL: A Syrian pilot who bailed out as his warplane crashed on Turkish territory has been found by a Turkish rescue team and...