Russia's communications watchdog said on Tuesday it had received a letter from LinkedIn Corp., a social networking website it had blocked, in which the company said it was not willing to take steps to comply with a Russian data storage law. "The company has refused to carry out the...

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Tuesday it was unfortunate that some of Turkey's allies had chosen the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia as a partner in the fight against ISIS in Syria. Yildirim's comments, at a news conference, were made as the military chiefs of Turkey, the United States...

Fighting between rival people-smuggling gangs on Libya's Mediterranean coast has killed 22 people, the International Organization for Migration said on Tuesday. The dead were thought to be migrants rather than smugglers because they were sub-Saharan Africans, IOM spokesman Joel Millman said....

A German court was due to rule Tuesday on a dispute between Facebook and a Syrian refugee whose selfie with Chancellor Angela Merkel made him the target of racist trolls. The image of Anas Modamani, 19, has been repeatedly manipulated to link him to Islamist attacks or violent crimes,...

 A new Israeli law banning entry to foreigners who support boycotting the country came under fire Tuesday from human rights groups and the opposition, who called it "thought control" harmful to Israel's international standing. The approval of the law late Monday was defended by...

Two children, aged 10 and 12, were killed in a suspected U.S. airstrike targeting al-Qaeda in central Yemen, a provincial official said Tuesday. The children had been tending a herd of goats on a mountain outside the village of Yakla, in Baida province, when the strike hit Sunday, the...

 More than 2,000 fighters sent from Iran have been killed in Iraq and Syria, the head of Iran's veterans' affairs office said Tuesday. "Some 2,100 martyrs have been martyred so far in Iraq or other places defending the holy mausoleums," Mohammad Ali Shahidi told the state-run IRNA news...

Iraqi forces retook the provincial government headquarters and a second bridgehead on the River Tigris in west Mosul on Tuesday, the third day of a new drive against the Islamic State group. The operation to retake west Mosul -- IS's largest remaining urban stronghold -- was launched on...

(Middle East Eye)- Illuminated by thin beams of light from soldiers' head torches and mobile phones, the climbing apparatus throws eerie shadows across the walls of the disused railway tunnel. For almost three years, the high-roofed tunnel served as the Islamic State's training camp for its...

The United States has started to deploy the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) anti-missile system to South Korea, U.S. Pacific Command said in a statement on Tuesday. The system will be deployed to counter ongoing nuclear and ballistic missile tests from North Korea, the statement...

Elite Iraqi security forces dislodged Islamic State militants from the main government buildings in Mosul on Tuesday, their last major city stronghold in Iraq, an Iraqi spokesman said. Mosul's main museum, which was damaged and looted by the militants, was also taken, Lieutenant Colonel...

Turkey will allow the family of a Syrian air force pilot whose warplane crashed on Turkish territory to visit him at the hospital where he is being treated, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told A Haber broadcaster on Monday. Turkey has been one of the leading critics of Syrian President...

The European Union will host a conference on the post-conflict future of Syria with the United Nations in Brussels on April 5, foreign affairs head Federica Mogherini said. The conference, a follow-up to last year's London meeting, "will assess regional conditions and the conditions on which...

At least 22 Shiite Huthi rebels were killed Monday in an airstrike by pro-government Arab coalition warplanes as well as clashes in western Yemen, officials said. The strike on a military base in the city of Bajil, northeast of provincial capital Hodeida on the Red Sea, killed 16 rebels,...

Israeli police grilled Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his official Jerusalem home on Monday in a long-running investigation into corruption suspicions, local media said. "The fourth round of questioning of PM Netanyahu has begun at his residence," Israel Hayom daily, considered close...

Turkey is infringing the judicial independence of a United Nations war crimes tribunal by holding one of its judges in detention despite an order to release him, the court ruled Monday, referring the matter to the U.N. Security Council. The U.N. court had earlier ordered Ankara to release...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Monday that the United States has warned that annexing the West Bank would lead to an "immediate crisis" with President Donald Trump's administration. Lieberman sought to push back against those in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's...

China's third most powerful leader said on Monday that Beijing had the right to "step in" to Hong Kong's leadership contest, according to local politicians who met him, in remarks fueling fears of meddling from Communist Party leaders. The comments by Zhang Dejiang, the head of China's...

Key members of Congress say they will honor President Donald Trump's request to investigate his unsubstantiated claim that Barack Obama overstepped his authority as president and had Trump's telephones tapped during the election campaign. A U.S. official said the FBI has asked the Justice...

India's national airline claimed Monday to have set a new record with the first round-the-world flight staffed entirely by women. Ai India said its Boeing 777 traveled from Delhi to San Francisco and back again with an all-female crew last week, the first time such a flight has...