Israeli aircraft attacked Palestinian militant targets in the Gaza Strip on Wednesday, wounding at least one person, witnesses said, after a rocket fired from the enclave hit an Israeli border town. Israeli police said there were no casualties in the rocket strike on Sderot, but Israel has a...

South Korea was counting the cost of its most damaging typhoon of the year Wednesday, with four people confirmed dead and three more missing. Typhoon Chaba had already attracted global headlines this week as it set a new regional record on approaching the Korean Peninsula with gusts of 375...

A delegation of German lawmakers visited Incirlik air base in southern Turkey on Wednesday, state-run Anadolu Agency said, defusing a months-long row that had prevented them meeting troops serving in the coalition against Islamic State. Turkey in June barred the politicians from the base,...

A so-called hard Brexit that takes the U.K. out of Europe’s single market as well as the EU could cost the country 38 billion pounds ($48.4 billion), a study published Wednesday has found. The report commissioned by TheCityUK, a financial think tank, raised fears that Britain’s exit...

(Marca)- Frank Rijkaard was in charge of the Camp Nou, Lionel Messi was a hopeful starlet, and 50 Cent was at the top of the charts back when the last time Barcelona had floundered to a start this poor in LaLiga. Losing to Celta Vigo meant eight points have been dropped in their first seven...

Israeli forces shelled northern Gaza Strip on Wednesday, shortly after a rocket was fired into southern Israeli. The Israeli army said in a statement that a rocket fired from the Palestinian territory exploded in the southern city of Sderot. Eyewitnesses told Anadolu Agency that Israeli...

Somali armed forces have killed 14 al-Shabaab fighters in a security operation in the Lower Shabelle region in southern Somalia, authorities said Wednesday morning. Armed forces conducted the operation on Tuesday night, said Deputy Defense Minister Abdullah Houcine Ali. Ali said...

Police have detained 55 Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) suspects in raids carried out in 31 provinces in Turkey, including Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir, a police source said Wednesday. The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said among those detained were alleged FETO head...

The Iraqi army on Tuesday recaptured the Ramadi Island in western Iraq from Daesh militants, a top army commander said. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Major General Ismail al-Mahallawi, head of the army’s Anbar Operations Command, said Iraqi forces, backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, wrested...

Republican vice presidential nominee Mike Pence called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "small and bullying leader" on Tuesday and condemned his actions in Syria, taking a harder line than Donald Trump at a contentious debate with Democratic rival Tim Kaine. Pence's denunciation of Putin...

One soldier has been martyred and three others injured in the northern Syrian town of al Rai by Daesh terrorists during Turkey’s ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield, according to military sources. According to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to...

More than 4,650 migrants were saved on Tuesday and 28 bodies recovered in more than 30 rescue missions off the Libyan coast, Italy's coast guard said on Wednesday. This brings the total rescued in the last 48 hours to more than 10,000 refugees, and the death toll to 50 as people smugglers...

Clashes between police and student protesters forced South Africa's Wits University to suspend classes for the second time in less than a month, as unrest mounted again over education costs. Police fired stun grenades, rubber bullets and tear gas at hundreds of protesters marching and...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi warned Turkey that keeping troops in northern Iraq could lead to a "regional war," according to comments broadcast on state TV on Wednesday. Abadi, who spoke at news conference Tuesday evening, was reacting to the Turkish parliament's decision last week...

One of Spain’s biggest corruption trials has begun, in which 37 business leaders and high-ranking conservative politicians face charges for running and benefiting from a massive bribery ring for years. Between all the defendants, prosecutors are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in...

Turkey’s military role in Syria is to rid the country of terrorism, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Tuesday, adding that it had no other plans in Syria or Iraq. In an interview with Haber Turk TV, Kalin said Turkey supported the expected operation to clear Daesh from Raqqah, the...

Lebanese rights activist Tareq Shandab was the target of an assassination attempt earlier this month after delivering a presentation at the UN’s Geneva headquarters, according to a statement issued Monday by the International Jurists Union. Describing the incident as "barbaric", the...

At least 30 people were killed when two boats carrying undocumented migrants of various nationalities sank off Libya’s northern coast Monday evening, according to local officials. "Two boats carrying scores of undocumented migrants sank off the coast of Sabratha [in northwestern Libya],"...

The fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade ripped into Haiti's southwestern peninsula early on Tuesday with 145 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds and storm surges, killing at least one person and damaging homes. The eye of the violent and slow-moving Category 4 storm was hovering over the...

Intensive care wards in Yemen's hospitals are filled with emaciated children hooked up to monitors and drips - victims of food shortages that could get even worse due to a reorganization of the central bank that is worrying importers. With food ships finding it hard to get into Yemen's ports...