Three rockets fired from Daesh-controlled territory in Syria hit Turkey’s southeastern border province of Kilis Saturday, the local governor said.  According to a written statement from the governor's office, two of the rockets hit a hilly area close to the border while the third one...

Air strikes against hospitals in Syria are war crimes that make the resumption of peace talks in the country's civil war impossible, Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson said on Sunday, criticizing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Russia. "It is the continuing savagery of the Assad...

Four months after he took over a coalition government stunned by the far-right Freedom Party's electoral success, Austria's new chancellor has taken a populist turn, adopting positions remarkably close to those of his anti-immigration rivals. But Christian Kern's new tactics, on Turkey...

A total of 1,003 people were killed in violence across Iraq last month, according to the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). In a report released Sunday, UNAMI said the fatalities included 609 civilians while 1,159 people were injured in September. Baghdad was the worst affected...

Over 100 residential areas across almost 1,000 kilometers of northern Syria have been cleared of terrorists since the start of Operation Euphrates Shield, Turkey’s military said on Sunday. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff also said a total of 1,657 Daesh targets had been destroyed...

Five policemen were killed and nine others injured in two separate militant attacks late Saturday in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula. In a statement, the Interior Ministry said unidentified gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying five police personnel in North Sinai’s city of Arish....

Israel's military has imposed a curfew on the occupied West Bank for the duration of a Jewish holiday beginning Sunday evening, Israel radio reported. A military spokesperson said checkpoints between Israel and the West Bank and Gaza have also been closed until Tuesday, except for humanitarian...

Bosnian voters on Sunday are taking part in local elections a week after Republika Srpska -- one of the two entities making up Bosnia and Herzegovina -- overwhelmingly passed a controversial referendum creating a “national holiday” in defiance of the country’s highest court. Over 3.2 million...

Pope Francis said a Mass on Sunday for the miniscule Catholic community in Shi'ite Muslim Azerbaijan, urging the "precious little flock" to keep the faith and paying tribute to those persecuted during the Soviet era. The oil and gas-rich nation of about 9 million people bordering on Russia,...

Britain will trigger the formal divorce process from the European Union by the end of March 2017, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Sunday. When asked when she would invoke Article 50 of the EU's Lisbon Treaty, May told the BBC: "We will trigger before the end of March next year."...

Arab coalition forces have launched operations against militia boats of Yemen's Houthi group that struck a civilian logistics ship on a humanitarian voyage in a strategic Red Sea shipping lane, the Saudi-led alliance said. The vessel, an Australian-built high speed logistics catamaran under...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump closed out a rough week for his campaign on Saturday by escalating personal attacks on Democrat Hillary Clinton, questioning her stamina and saying she should be in prison for her handling of classified emails. After a week in which he drew wide...

(Marca)- For the next three or four weeks, Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane must plan without Luka Modric and it hasn't always been easy without him in the past. While Los Blancos couldn't be described as being overly dependent on the Croatian, there is no doubt that his absence is a big...

At least 77 people have been injured after a gas cylinder exploded in a cafe in the Spanish town of Velez-Malaga on the southern coast, a spokesman for the Andalucia region's emergency unit said. The spokesman said five people were being treated for serious injuries after the explosion at...

Hundreds of people rallied in the German capital Saturday to call for an end to the Syrian regime’s continuing airstrikes on Aleppo, which has killed at least 500 people in the past two weeks. Demonstrators marched in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district, raising flags of the Syrian revolution and...

Turkey's parliament passed a motion on Saturday to extend a mandate that allows military action against terror organizations in neighboring Syria and Iraq for one more year.  The parliament convened on Saturday, on the first day of a new parliamentary session to discuss the current...

Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told French daily Le Monde. Confirming the findings of a confidential report by...

At least one person was killed and around 30 others injured when an earthquake measuring 5.5 on the Richter scale struck northwest Pakistan -- including the capital, Islamabad -- on Saturday. The earthquake, with its epicenter in the Hindukush mountains of neighboring Afghanistan, struck...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel cannot afford to bail out Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE) given the hard line Berlin has taken against state aid in other European nations and the risk of a political backlash at home, German media wrote on Saturday. The government denied a newspaper report on...

A United Arab Emirates military vessel was damaged in a strategic Red Sea shipping lane off the coast of Yemen on Saturday but there were no injuries to its crew, the UAE military said. Hundreds of Emirati soldiers in a Saudi-led coalition have been fighting Yemen's Iran-allied Houthis who...