Any additional support given by the United States to Syrian Kurdish YPG fighters will cause problems for Turkey, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim was quoted as saying on Friday. Speaking to reporters on his return flight from Vietnam, Yildirim also said Turkey was working in cooperation with...

A South Korean court sentenced the billionaire chief of Samsung to five years in prison for bribery and other crimes in a stunning downfall for the heir to South Korea's biggest family fortune and a global consumer electronics empire. The Seoul Central District Court said Friday that Lee...

( The Guardian )- The family of a former British soldier arrested in Turkey after fighting against Isis in Syria have begged Theresa May for help after his lawyer revealed he has been charged with “being a member of a terrorist organisation”. Joe Robinson, 24, from Accrington, Lancashire, is...

U.S. President Donald Trump has told his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi that he wants to strengthen ties with Cairo, Sisi's office said Friday, days after it emerged Washington had cut some aid to Egypt. Egypt had protested on Wednesday a U.S. decision to withhold some military...

 U.S Navy and Marine Corps divers have recovered and identified a second body in the search for ten sailors missing after a collision between a guided-missile destroyer and merchant vessel near Singapore earlier this week, the U.S. Navy said on Friday. The USS John S. McCain collided...

At least 12 people died in southern Russia early on Friday after a bus carrying construction workers veered off a road and plunged into the Black Sea, TASS news agency reported. "The bus was carrying 35 people ... 12 of them died. Twenty were rescued. Three people are missing, the search for...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is engulfed in a string of scandals and faces a growing grassroots protest movement demanding his indictment and removal from office. Weekly anti-corruption vigils in front of the home of Israel's attorney general have gone from a trickle to drawing...

At least 21 insurgents and 11 members of security forces were killed in Myanmar's Rakhine state Friday when militants staged a major coordinated attack on 24 police posts and an army base, the military said. The fighting - still going on in some areas - marked a major escalation in a...

Hezbollah has captured much of an Islamic State pocket on Syria’s side of the border with Lebanon in a joint offensive with the Syrian army, its leader said on Thursday. In parallel with the fighting, talks on a truce have begun with Islamic State but a military victory is more likely,...

 A group of Egyptian students have built a machine they say can produce fuel from worn-out vehicle tyres, after big rises in energy prices as part of recent economic reforms. The device heats the tyres until they reach evaporation point. The vapour then enters a condenser. The...

As Iraqi forces advance through Tal Afar, their Shiite religious songs mix with the crackle of gunfire by Islamic State group jihadists and the boom of air strikes. The battle to oust the jihadists from one of their last strongholds in Iraq is proceeding more quickly than expected. On a...

 Egypt's Antiquities Ministry says that archaeologists have uncovered five tombs from the Roman era, dating back to more than 2,000 years. Thursday's statement says the discovery was made in a western desert area known as Beir al-Shagala near the Dakhla oasis, southwest of Cairo....

The European Union on Thursday condemned Israeli measures against three Palestinian schools in the occupied West Bank days before classes restart following the summer holidays. On Monday, a kindergarten structure in a Bedouin Arab community in the eastern West Bank was confiscated, while...

( The New Arab )- In her right hand, Sakne holds the identity card belonging to her 16-year-old son, Mohammed. Her left hand tightens its grip on the wiry arm of her younger son, Abbas.  On her face is a look of exhaustion - combined with a fierce determination. "I will come here...

Neymar's acrimonious split from Barcelona escalated on Thursday as the Paris St Germain forward announced plans to sue the Liga club, two days after Barca revealed they were suing the Brazilian over breach of contract. Reports in the Spanish media said that Neymar had filed a lawsuit via...

Moscow believes that Washington's bet on using of force in U.S. President Donald Trump's new strategy for Afghanistan is "a dead end", Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told a news conference on Thursday. Trump has approved an extended American presence in Afghanistan, although neither...

An Israeli court Thursday charged a Islamic preacher with incitement to terrorism in connection with deadly unrest at a Jerusalem holy site last month, the justice ministry said. It said that 1948 Palestinian Raed Salah was charged in Haifa magistrates' court on a total of six counts, also...

( The Guardian )- Dozens of people are feared killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a small hotel north of the Yemeni capital, the latest mass casualty event in a war that is now in its third year. News agencies quoted local officials and aid groups as saying at least 35...

The head of Turkey's nationalist opposition said on Thursday a planned independence referendum by Kurds in northern Iraq should be viewed by Ankara as a reason for war "if necessary." Turkey, which is battling a three-decade Kurdish insurgency in its southeast, is concerned the referendum...

Police said Thursday they had identified the remains of the last suspected member of a cell which carried out terror attacks in northeastern Spain. "Youssef Aalla is the last corpse identified in the Alcanar explosion," Catalan regional police said, referring to an accidental blast at the...