A Turkish court Thursday sentenced a lawmaker from the pro-Kurdish opposition party to 16 years and 8 months in prison, broadcaster CNN Turk and other media said, nearly one year after his arrest over terror charges. Idris Baluken, a lawmaker for the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic...

Saudi-led air strikes have killed dozens of rebels and civilians in the past 24 hours in Yemen's flashpoint province of Hodeida, medical sources said Thursday. Saudi-led coalition warplanes carried out nine air raids overnight on positions of the Shiite Houthi rebels in the Red Sea...

Iran's army chief said Thursday police forces had already quelled anti-government unrest that has killed 21 people but that his troops were ready to intervene if needed, official media reported, as new state-sponsored protests were held. The anti-government demonstrations, which seem to...

Iranian authorities are concerned that nationwide unrest will undermine the religious establishment and want to stamp out the protests quickly, government officials say.  But the person with the most to lose is President Hassan Rouhani. While several senior officials said there was...