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Turkey detained pro-Kurdish MPs for 'encouraging terrorism'

A dozen lawmakers from Turkey's opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which has Kurdish roots, were detained on Friday because they refused to give testimony in criminal proceedings, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. Democratically elected officials normally can only be forced from...

8 ISIS terrorists killed in northern Syria

Eight Daesh terrorists have been killed by coalition forces in seven airstrikes in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, Turkish Armed Forces said Friday. In addition, two defense emplacements and two mortars of Daesh have been destroyed in the airstrikes on Jabal Khirbat...

Journalist killed by roadside bomb in Afghanistan

A journalist working for Afghan television station Ariana News was killed by a roadside bomb in the southern province of Helmand Friday, his employer said, adding to a growing toll on media workers in Afghanistan this year. Witnesses said Nematullah Zaheer had been travelling with other...