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Heavy toll weighs on Misrata after battle for Libya's Sirte

Next to the rusting shell cases outside Misrata's museum of Libya's 2011 uprising is a new addition: a scaffold used by Islamic State in Sirte to display bodies of executed prisoners, mounted on a would-be suicide bomber's captured truck. Five years after Misrata's fighters killed Muammar...

Turkey: 7 detained over Istanbul blast

A total of seven suspects have been arrested over Thursday's blast in Istanbul, which left ten people injured, anti-terror police said Friday. Among those apprehended, a suspected PKK terrorist, whose codename is "Mazlum" was caught with a fake ID card at a security checkpoint in the central...

Russia 'interested in' UN proposal on Aleppo

Russia’s foreign minister said his country was interested in a proposal made by UN Syria envoy Staffan de Mistura who asked al-Nusra Front militants to leave the northern Syrian city of Aleppo with their weapons. Sergey Lavrov, speaking to Russia's Channel One on Friday, said Moscow was...

Peshmerga won’t allow PKK to remain in Sinjar

Peshmerga forces will not allow members of the PKK terrorist group to remain in Iraq’s northern Sinjar district west of Daesh-held Mosul, Qasim Darbo, an Ezidi peshmerga leader told Anadolu Agency on Friday. Referring to the group’s continued presence in Sinjar, Darbo asserted: "If PKK...