Three members of the Turkish security forces were killed on Saturday in clashes with militants in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, security forces said. Hundreds of people have died since the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) abandoned its two-and-a-half-year ceasefire in...

At least 30 people have been killed and 80 others injured after a triple suicide bombing on an island in Lake Chad, according to security officials. Saturday’s blast, in a part of the lake controlled by Chad, has been attributed by local security sources to Boko Haram rebels. Three...

Since Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet last week, the United States has quietly put on hold a long-standing request for its NATO ally to play a more active role in the U.S.-led air war against Islamic State. The move, disclosed to Reuters by a U.S. official, is aimed at...

A suspected Islamist militant and two members of his family were killed in northern Lebanon on Saturday, after the man blew himself up during an army raid on his home, security and medical sources said. It was the latest in a series of arrest raids across the country since two...