Ten civilians, including a child, have been killed in Turkish airstrikes and shelling in and around a Syrian town held by ISIS, activists said Friday. The bombardment hit the northern town of Al-Bab and the nearby area of Tadif, both held by ISIS, Thursday, the Syrian Observatory for Human...

U.N.-hosted negotiations on the Syrian conflict planned for Feb. 8 in Geneva have been postponed until the end of that month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday. "The date of Feb. 8 has been put back until the end of next month," Lavrov told a meeting with Syrian opposition...

Nobel laureates and other writers have issued a message of solidarity to Turkish colleagues who have been jailed as part of what they call a "heavy-handed" crackdown against free expression. Close to 150 writers and journalists are in prison in Turkey, several jailed as the government...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump are expected to talk by telephone this Saturday, the Kremlin said, their first conversation since Trump took office. The phone call will be a crucial first step towards what the Kremlin and the White House hope will be a thaw...

President Donald Trump's push to create safe zones in Syria could force him to make some risky decisions about how far to go to protect refugees, including shooting down Syrian or Russian aircraft or committing thousands of U.S. troops, experts said. Trump said on Wednesday he "will...

A man has been charged with hate crimes Thursday after attacking a Muslim airline employee at John F. Kennedy International Airport while invoking President Donald Trump’s name, said local officials. According to a statement from Queens County District Attorney’s Office, Robin Rhodes, from...

President Donald Trump is expected to ask the Pentagon for ways to accelerate the fight against Daesh (ISIS) militants in Iraq and Syria, and officials said the options probably would include steps the Obama administration considered but never acted on, from adding significantly more U.S. troops...

(The Guardian)- Donald Trump’s proposal to set up safe havens in northern Syria has been met with caution by his allies and skepticism by others who fear the plan is aimed more at keeping refugees out of the US than providing for humanitarian needs. Turkey and Russia, on whom such a plan...

A deal struck in October for Syria to buy one million tons of wheat from its ally Russia to prevent bread shortages in government-held areas has not been fulfilled and may never be, Syrian and Russian government sources said. A Syrian government official with knowledge of the deal said a...

The ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria and the clashes with Daesh terrorists in Al-Bab are in Turkey's national interest and security, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Thursday. Speaking to TGRT television, Kurtulmus said: “We will continue to support the Free...

The head of the tiny British overseas territory of Gibraltar, which is hugely dependent on a free-flowing border with Spain, has accused Madrid of acting like a "predator" by trying to exploit Brexit. In an interview with AFP in London, Gibraltar's Chief Minister Fabian Picardo dismissed...

Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that Congress was moving ahead with building a wall at the U.S. border with Mexico that would cost $12 billion to $15 billion. McConnell and House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan did not say how Congress would pay for the wall that...

A prominent Egyptian human rights lawyer says he has been banned from leaving the country, the latest in a series of travel bans imposed on rights activists. Negad Borai, who runs the United Group for Law, says he was heading to Jordan to visit his wife when airport authorities informed him...

Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said Thursday Britain was "open-minded" about the timescale for Syrian President Bashar Assad relinquishing power and did not rule out joining Russia in military action against ISIS militants. Speaking to British lawmakers, Johnson also questioned whether the...

A counter-terrorism unit in the Libyan capital Tripoli said it suspected Saturday's car bomb near the recently reopened Italian embassy was planted by backers of the powerful Libyan National Army (LNA) based in the eastern part of the divided country. The blast occurred in central Tripoli...

Turkey is waiting to see the outcome of U.S. President Donald Trump's pledge to order safe zones in Syria, but has long advocated such a plan, Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Huseyin Muftuoglu said Thursday. Trump said Wednesday he "will absolutely do safe zones in Syria" for refugees...

The administration of U.S. President Donald Trump did not consult Russia before announcing a plan to establish safe zones for refugees in Syria, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday. "No, our American partners did not consult with us. It's a sovereign decision," Peskov...

(Daily Sabah)- Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has approved the construction of 2,500 new settlement units in the occupied West Bank, according to a statement issued by his office on Tuesday. The approval is the second of its kind since Donald Trump assumed the U.S. presidency last...

(The Guardian)- And so the Brexit cavalcade gathers pace. After paying court to Donald Trump in Washington on Friday, Theresa May will fly to Turkey to meet another hard man with a weakness for “alternative facts”: President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who has engaged in a brutal clampdown on human...

A statue stolen from Japan in 2012 should be given to a South Korean temple, a South Korean court ruled Thursday, on the grounds that it was previously seized by Japanese pirates centuries ago. The ruling prompted an immediate protest from Tokyo, which is embroiled in disputes with Seoul...