Pakistani security forces have killed a senior al Qaeda commander and 13 other militants this week in raids aimed at weeding violent Islamists out of the heartland province of Punjab, security officials said on Friday. The two raids in the south of Punjab were part of a sweeping operation that...

 Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said he is planning to assign the ruling Justice and Development (AK) Party's Binali Yildirim as prime minister on Sunday. Erdogan's remarks came late Thursday during a live televised event at the Presidential Palace in Ankara where he met...

ANKARA: Turkish lawmakers voted Friday in favor of an article of constitutional change that could see pro-Kurdish and other lawmakers prosecuted, with the voting indicating support would be sufficient to avoid a referendum on the issue. In a secret ballot, 373 MPs in the 550-seat parliament...

Egypt's military said its search teams found wreckage Friday from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean with 66 people on board. "Egyptian aircraft and navy vessels have found personal belongings of passengers and parts of the wreckage 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of...