(Daily Sabah)- A group of suspected pro-PKK assailants attacked a building belonging to a Turkish man in Essen city located in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia by Molotov cocktails late Friday, reports said on Saturday. The attack follows a number of developments which took place on Friday,...

(The Guardian)- A Russian frigate armed with cruise missiles has passed through the Bosphorus on its way to the eastern Mediterranean in a potentially ominous development for the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo. The Admiral Grigorovich, part of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, arrived off the...

(Carnegie Endowment)- Relations between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two previously staunch allies, have recently soured. This can be attributed to Egypt’s inability to perform its role as a guarantor of regional Gulf security against growing Iranian hegemony and its desire to cultivate other, less...

The battle for Mosul, Iraq, raged on Friday and streams of civilians continued an exodus from the city. After punching into the city on Tuesday, Iraqi forces paused briefly. They moved deeper into the eastern districts of the city but encountered fierce resistance from Islamic State...

(Daily Star)- An Istanbul court Saturday remanded in custody ahead of trial nine staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in an intensifying crackdown a day after the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish party were also jailed. There had been growing international alarm over the...

(Daily Star)- A mayor detained at a jail in the central Philippines for drug-related charges was killed along with another inmate in a shootout Saturday, police said, as a bloody crackdown on narcotics continues in the Southeast Asian country. Rolando Espinosa, mayor of Albuera town in...

Turkey's military hit 71 ISIS targets in Syria over the last 24 hours, the army said Saturday, intensifying strikes against the militant group, which has claimed responsibility for the latest bomb attack in southeast Turkey. Five ISIS fighters were killed in the strikes, as were five...

Two roadside bombs struck a convoy carrying Iraqi families fleeing an Islamic State-controlled town in the north of the country late on Friday, killing 18 people, a police officer said. The bombs targeted a truck carrying people from Hawija, about 120 km (75 miles) south of Islamic State's...

(Daily Sabah)- A Turkish soldier was killed and two others injured in an attack carried out by Daesh in northern Syria, the military said in a statement Friday. The Turkish General Staff said the soldier had succumbed to his injures in Turkey's Gaziantep province. The soldiers were...

A French court has handed a three-month suspended jail sentence to a teenager who named his domestic wifi network after ISIS, his lawyer said Friday. "There was no sympathy for terrorism! There was only the word 'Daesh21,'" explained lawyer Karima Manhouli, saying he would appeal his...

(The Guardian)- Squabbling between Saudi Arabia and Iran has sent the oil price down, as tension between the near neighbours threatened to derail talks aimed at cutting production by the Opec group of oil-producing countries. Riyadh is reportedly threatening to turn the screw on Tehran...

(The Daily Star)- The European Union's foreign policy chief discussed with her Turkish counterpart the arrest of Kurdish opposition lawmakers Friday, after expressing deep concern over the detentions. Federica Mogherini tweeted that she had spoken with Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut...

Novak Djokovic crashed out of the Paris Masters in straight sets to Marin Cilic on Friday, opening the door for Andy Murray to snatch the world number one ranking and end the Serb's two-year stranglehold at the top. Djokovic, who was chasing a fifth title in Paris, was beaten 6-4 7-6 (2),...

One U.S. military service member was killed and two were critically injured on Friday in a shooting as they approached the gate to a training facility in Jordan, two U.S. officials said, declining to provide further details on the incident. One of the officials said there was no indication...

The United Nations cannot use Russia's unilateral pause in the fighting in Aleppo to send aid into the city's besieged eastern zone because it does not have the needed security guarantees, a U.N. spokesman said Friday. Russia and the Syrian army told rebels in Aleppo Wednesday to leave by...

A car exploded in the Libyan city of Benghazi Friday, wounding a prominent tribal leader who recently helped eastern forces take control of major oil ports, security and medical officials said. Saleh al-Ateiwish, head of the Magharba tribe, was wounded as he left a mosque in Benghazi's Sidi...

Iran has sentenced protesters accused of attacking Saudi Arabia's embassy in response to the execution of a prominent cleric to up to six months in prison, their lawyer said Friday. Some of the defendants received three or six months in jail for disturbing public order while others were...

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier on Friday requested that the charge d'affaires in the Turkish embassy be summoned to the ministry for discussions about Turkey's arrests of Kurdish opposition lawmakers, the ministry said. "The overnight arrests of politicians and lawmakers...

A dozen lawmakers from Turkey's opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which has Kurdish roots, were detained on Friday because they refused to give testimony in criminal proceedings, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. Democratically elected officials normally can only be forced from...

Eight Daesh terrorists have been killed by coalition forces in seven airstrikes in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, Turkish Armed Forces said Friday. In addition, two defense emplacements and two mortars of Daesh have been destroyed in the airstrikes on Jabal Khirbat...