The U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) on Sunday denied reports it was leaving the Incirlik base in southern Turkey's Adana province and the Al Udeid base in Qatar. “The U.S. is not leaving Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, nor is the U.S. leaving Al Udeid AB, Qatar. These reports are false and...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Turkey had begun operations in Iraq's Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK militants would withdraw from the area. "We said we would go into Sinjar. Now operations have...

Iran has called the appointment of the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to the role of National Security Adviser of the United States "a shame," Iranian media reported Sunday. The report by the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the country's Supreme...

 A senior official in the U.N. children's agency says the number of severely malnourished children in Yemen has doubled in three years of civil war, from 200,000 in 2015, and that an additional half a million boys and girls can no longer go to school. Regional UNICEF director Geert...