At least 25 Daesh terrorists were killed in airstrikes in Iraq’s oil-rich Kirkuk province on Sunday, a senior Iraqi security official said. The U.S.-led international coalition forces carried out airstrikes in the northwestern province of Kirkuk, Maj. Gen. Maan al-Saadi told Anadolu Agency....

Conflict-ravaged Yemen has become a "living hell" for children with thousands dying every year from malnutrition and easily preventable diseases, a top U.N. official said Sunday. Geert Cappelaere, regional director for the Middle East and North Africa at UN children's agency UNICEF,...

Nineteen suspected militants linked to a deadly attack on Coptic Christians in central Egypt have been killed in a shootout with police, the interior ministry said Sunday. Those killed in the exchange of fire were part of a cell that left dead seven Coptic pilgrims in Friday's attack in...

Israeli forces on Sunday raided the Jerusalem governor’s office in the occupied West Bank, according to local residents.  “An Israeli force stormed the governor’s office in the town of al-Ram, northeast of Jerusalem, and searched it,” a local resident told Anadolu Agency. ...

Rainstorms lashing Sicily have killed at least 10 people, Italian Premier Giuseppe Conte said before heading Sunday for the stricken Mediterranean island. State radio said nine of those victims were in a home that was flooded by a rapidly swelling river in the countryside near Palermo....

Bahrain's appeals court sentenced the head of the country's Shiite opposition movement to jail for life Sunday over charges of spying for rival Gulf state Qatar, a judicial source said. Sheikh Ali Salman, who headed the now-outlawed Al-Wefaq movement, had been acquitted by the high...

Thousands of Iranians rallied in Tehran Sunday to mark the 39th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover, as Washington restored all sanctions lifted under the nuclear deal. The crowd chanted "Down with U.S." and "Death to Israel" during the rally in the capital, and state TV said...

More than 100 writers, actors and activists have signed an open letter urging the UN to launch an independent investigation Meryl Streep, JK Rowling and Zadie Smith have all added their names to an open letter calling on the United Nations to investigate the death of the journalist...

Controversial Uzbek businessman Gafur Rakhimov was elected president of the International Boxing Association (AIBA) on Saturday despite fears that his appointment could lead to the sport's ejection from the Olympic Games. Rakhimov won 86 of the 134 second-round votes in the ballot in...

The Turkish foreign ministry Saturday recalled its ambassador to Uganda after she was photographed at a reception for Turkey's annual Republic Day wearing a dress reportedly inspired by ancient Greece. Ambassador Sedef Yavuzalp hosted the reception in Kampala for the annual October 29...

A Russian-made MiG-29 fighter jet of the Egyptian Air Forces crashed in Egypt during a training flight on Saturday, according to Russia’s state-controlled aircraft company. The Russian United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) said in a statement that a technical glitch and piloting error are among the...

Indonesian lawmakers have criticized Saudi Arabia for executing a migrant worker without notifying the Indonesian authorities beforehand and said the Kingdom “violated” diplomatic ethics and international custom law such as the 1963 Vienna Convention. "It is the custom of the...

A Jordanian official on Saturday called on his government to reverse a decision to cancel a free trade agreement with Turkey. “The commercial sector hopes that the government would restudy the agreement carefully to serve the best of all parties,” Nael al-Kabariti, the head of the...

A member of the U.S. armed forces was killed and another wounded in an apparent insider attack in the Afghan capital Kabul, an official said on Saturday. Debra Richardson, spokeswoman for the NATO-led Resolute Support Mission, said in a statement the attacker was a member of the Afghan...

Education institutions, roads and markets reopened on Saturday across the country after the government reached an agreement with religious groups last night, an official said. "The protest has been called off after government accepted our demands and signed an agreement with our party"...

State TV says Iran has inaugurated the production line of its domestically produced fighter jet a day after President Donald Trump’s administration announced the reimposition of remaining U.S. sanctions on Tehran to ramp up economic pressure on the Islamic Republic. Defense Minister...

A senior Palestinian official Friday condemned Brazilian far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s announcement that he would move his country’s Israel embassy to occupied Jerusalem. The move announced Thursday comes six months after the United States controversially transferred its embassy,...

By Recep Tayyip Erdogan The story is all too familiar: Jamal Khashoggi, a Saudi journalist and a family man, entered Saudi Arabia’s Consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2 for marriage formalities. No one – not even his fiancee, who was waiting outside the compound — has ever seen him again....

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday said the order for journalist Jamal Khashoggi's killing came from the top levels of the Saudi government. In an opinion piece published in The Washington Post, Erdogan said Turkey knows the perpetrators are among the 18 suspects detained...

A recent move by the U.S. to lift sanctions on two Turkish ministers is an important step for normalizing strained ties between the two countries, Turkey's ruling party spokesman said. Speaking after a Justice and Development (AK) Party meeting, Omer Celik said the U.S. decision to lift...