The Middle East can return to being a “land of culture, civilization, peace and prosperity” through strong leadership, consensus and a “new social imagination”, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Saturday. In his regular column for the English-language Daily Sabah newspaper,...

An Iraqi army division has been deployed to the Al-Ratba district near the Syrian border in the western Anbar province to fight the Daesh terrorist group, Iraq’s Defense Ministry announced Friday evening. Iraqi state television broadcast footage showing hundreds of military vehicles and...

Police on Saturday launched a huge manhunt in the east German town of Chemnitz for a suspect believed to have been planning a bomb attack. Residents were told to stay in their homes during the operation which followed a tip-off from domestic intelligence. An explosion had been heard in the...

Egypt's foreign ministry sharply criticized the U.S. Embassy in Cairo for advising citizens to avoid large gatherings in the capital until Sunday, calling the move "unjustifiable". The embassy's message warned against being in public spaces, near diplomatic missions, government buildings,...