The trail went cold on Sunday in a German police manhunt for a Syrian refugee suspected of planning a bomb attack after a raid on an apartment in which a cache of explosives was found. "We are following numerous tips, but unfortunately we don't have a hot lead yet," said Tom Bernhardt,...

The bodies of seven missing teenagers have been recovered from a river on Indonesia's Java island after their overloaded boat capsized. The vessel was carrying 25 students from an Islamic boarding school in East Java when it sank on the Bengawan Solo river -- Java's longest -- on its way to...

The final touches to the agreement to pipe Russian natural gas through Turkey should be completed when President Vladimir Putin meets his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul on Monday, Energy Minister Alexander Novak said. In an exclusive interview with Anadolu Agency ahead...

An Arab assailant shot and wounded several people in Jerusalem on Sunday and was then killed by Israeli police, a police spokeswoman said. At least two of the wounded - a police officer and a female pedestrian - were in critical condition. Army Radio said about eight people were hurt....

United Nations aid envoy Stephen O'Brien said he was "horrified and extremely disturbed" by an attack on a funeral ceremony in Yemen that killed more than 140 victims late Saturday. "This horrendous and heinous attack displayed an utter disregard for human life," O'Brien said. "It highlights...

Six Turkish soldiers were killed and seven people, including civilians, wounded on Sunday when a car bomb exploded near a police station in a border region of the country's southeast, security sources said. The sources said the blast hit the Durak gendarmerie station, 20 km (12 miles) from...

Bangladeshi security forces on Saturday killed 12 members of an Islamist militant group blamed for a deadly attack on a cafe in Dhaka in July, senior officials said. Most of the militants were killed in a three-hour gun battle as security forces raided four hideouts on the outskirts of...

At least nine suspects were into custody late Saturday in drug trafficking operations across Turkey, according to police. Anti-drug police raided various addresses in Istanbul, Izmir, Diyarbakir and Kayseri and seized more than two tons of marijuana including skunk -- a good quality...

Thirty one Islamic State militants have been killed in clashes and U.S.-led coalition air strikes in northern Syria over the last 24 hours, the Turkish military said on Sunday, marking an escalation in violence in the area. Syrian rebels, backed by Turkish tanks and air strikes, have been...

An Afghan air force helicopter crashed in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing at least seven people on board, said Afghan Defence Ministry officials who described the crash as an accident. Four crew members and three soldiers were among the those killed in the crash of the Russian-made...

German police hunting for a Syrian-born man suspected of planning a bomb attack found explosives in an apartment they raided while looking for him on Saturday, officials said. Police appealed to the public to call them with any information on Jaber Albakr, 22, who was last seen in the...

Two officers were killed and a third was wounded Saturday while responding to a domestic disturbance in Palm Springs, California, local media reported. At least one suspect is still sought by police amid an ongoing manhunt after the deadly encounter at approximately 12.30 p.m. (1930GMT),...

An Egyptian Court on Saturday has postponed a hearing of an appeal by Mohamed Morsi, the first democratically elected president in Egypt, in the case known in the media as "Itehadeya Palace incidents", a judicial source told Anadolu Agency . Morsi, who was sentenced to 20 years in prison,...

Saudi-led warplanes killed at least 82 people when they struck mourners at a hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa on Saturday, the acting health minister in the Houthi-run administration said, but the coalition denied any role in the incident. Ghazi Ismail also said that 534 other people were...

The U.S. must follow through on a firm stance against Israeli settlements, the Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour told Anadolu Agency. Praising a "strong reaction" from the Barack Obama administration on renewed "illegal" settlement efforts by the Jewish state, Mansour said Friday:...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday drove the first car through Istanbul’s new Eurasia Tunnel under the Marmara Sea. The president was the driver. His passengers were Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and Ahmet Arslan, transport and communications minister. The car departed from Harem on...

Elders in Afghanistan's troubled Helmand province accused the Kabul government and its international backers on Saturday of failing to live up to promises of protection as Taliban militants claim more territory and threaten the provincial capital. Despite months of reorganization, a new...

A review by the Philippines of joint military drills with the United States could see exercises continue or scaled back, a military spokesman said on Saturday, following more rhetoric from the president about scrapping them completely. An assessment would be conducted among the defense top...

A new Egyptian militant group, the Hasam Movement, on Saturday claimed responsibility for the killing of a policeman in the country's north. Gunmen shot Gamal al-Deeb, a policeman working with the Homeland Security agency, eight times outside his home in the northern Beheira province shortly...

The Middle East can return to being a “land of culture, civilization, peace and prosperity” through strong leadership, consensus and a “new social imagination”, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Saturday. In his regular column for the English-language Daily Sabah newspaper, Kalin...