Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan met with Khaled Meshaal, leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas, on Saturday in Istanbul, Turkish presidential sources said, a day after Israel and Turkey said they were close to patching up five-year political rift. A source from Erdogan's...

A car bomb exploded on Saturday on a busy street in the Somali capital Mogadishu, killing three people and wounding eight, a police officer said. The toll is likely to rise, Police Major Nur Farah said at the scene of the blast. "The place is busy with hotels and supermarkets. Most of the...

Iran will export around nine tonnes of enriched uranium to Russia in the coming days, Tehran's nuclear chief was quoted as saying on Saturday, as the country implements curbs to its nuclear program to secure sanctions relief. "In the next few days around nine tonnes of Iran's enriched uranium...

The United Arab Emirates has secretly sent some 300 Colombian mercenaries to fight for it in Yemen, paying handsomely to recruit a private army of well-trained, battle-hardened South American soldiers, sources told AFP. The sources, who spoke on condition of...