By Tulay Karadeniz ANKARA (Reuters) - Diplomats and soldiers trapped inside Turkey's consulate in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul had no option but to surrender this week after hundreds of heavily armed Islamist militants surrounded the building, the foreign ministry...

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve Saturday ordered with "the absolute urgency", the expulsion of a Tunisian man accused of recruiting young French nationals to join fighting in Syria. Following "the threat that his presence posed to public safety and security of the state,"...

Pro-Russian separatists shot down an army transport plane in east Ukraine on Saturday, killing 49 servicemen and dealing a blow to a military campaign to defeat the rebels and hold the country together. President Petro Poroshenko summoned his security chiefs for consultations and...

    A barrel bomb attacks targeting Anadan town in Northern Aleppo countryside killed 20 people and wounded dozens on Saturday, local activists told Zaman Alwasl. Activists expected an increasing number of dead due to the violent shelling which has reduced entire...