The European Union on Thursday announced it was contracting 348 million euros ($393 mln) to the U.N. World Food Programme (WFP) for humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees in Turkey, part of the bloc's migration cooperation with Ankara. The money comes as part of a 3 billion euro support for...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed "in principle" to meet in Moscow, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry Thursday. "Netanyahu and Abbas have agreed in principle to meet in Moscow,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a weekly...

Turkey has agreed to allow German lawmakers to visit soldiers stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey in October, signaling some progress in easing strains between the two NATO allies, Germany's Foreign Minister said on Thursday. Turkey had banned German lawmakers from visiting the base in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish authorities found a “dangerous” recipe to prepare highly effective poisons which can be used in wide spread operations in the house of Jihadists who previously fought in the ranks of al-Nusra Front according to Turkish media reports. The recipe depends on biological...

Bomb attacks in Thailand's south have injured two police officers and a villager two days after the killing of a four-year-old girl and her father provoked domestic and international indignation. The incidents were the latest in a series of violent incidents in the three majority Muslim...

Turkey jailed 16 businessmen pending trial on Thursday and issued arrest warrants for dozens of military officers over alleged links to the U.S.-based cleric blamed by Ankara for July's attempted coup, Turkish media said. Authorities have already detained tens of thousands of people over...

Operations in Mosul and Raqqa are vitally important if Iraq and Syria are to be cleansed of Daesh, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday. Following a meeting in London with the High Negotiations Committee, which represents Syrian opposition groups, Cavusoglu told Turkish...

Asian shares held within one-year peaks on Thursday as Chinese trade data topped forecasts and imports recorded their first annual rise since late 2014, a promising sign for global demand that gave the Australia dollar a lift. Beijing reported imports rose 1.5 percent in August from a year...

Swiss third seed Stan Wawrinka outlasted tiring former champion Juan Martin del Potro in four sets to advance to the semi-finals of the U.S. Open on Wednesday. Twice grand slam winner Wawrinka ended the rousing comeback effort by the Argentine at Flushing Meadows with a 7-6(5) 4-6 6-3 6-2...

Presidential candidates of the two major parties, Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, stepped on the same stage to answer questions from American military veterans during a unique televised forum that left a lot to be desired on specifics. Confronted by a rapid-fire round of questions from...

Kenyan workers involved in supplying khat were left wondering if their livelihood would ever return Thursday following Somalia’s sudden and unexplained ban on the mildly narcotic plant. The farmers, packers, transporters and wholesalers of khat, known as miraa in Kenya, were shocked Monday...

Apple Inc unveiled its new water and dust-resistant iPhone 7 with high-resolution cameras at its fall product event on Wednesday, and said a Super Mario game was coming to the new phone and Pokemon Go would feature on its upgraded Apple Watch. The excitement at the Bill Graham auditorium in...

The world will need 20 million barrels of oil every day to meet rising demand in the face of lower crude production, the president of oilfields services giant Halliburton said Wednesday. Regarding low oil prices and the hurdles in the global oil industry, Jeff Miller said capital...

An Iraqi Shi'ite militia said on Wednesday it had dispatched more than 1,000 fighters to the frontline in neighboring Syria, escalating foreign involvement in the battle for Aleppo, the biggest prize in five years of relentless civil war. New footage emerged of civilians choking in the...

Three Turkish soldiers were killed and four injured Tuesday in a Daesh attack in Syria’s Aleppo province, the military said. “Rockets were launched at two Turkish tanks operating in Wuguf district of Aleppo on Tuesday,” the Turkish General Staff said in an emailed statement. “During the...

Nothing less than victory will do for Manchester City in Saturday's feisty Premier League derby against Manchester United, playmaker David Silva has said. Silva, who scored both goals in Spain's friendly win over Belgium last week and two more against Liechtenstein in their World Cup...

PARIS French anti-terrorism police have launched an investigation after a car full of six gas cylinders was found in Paris, near Notre Dame Cathedral, over the weekend, French daily Le Figaro reported Wednesday. The car – with registration plates missing and its hazard lights flashing –...

Almost 50 million children throughout the world are "uprooted," forcibly displaced from their home countries by war, violence or persecution, the United Nations children's program said Wednesday. "Indelible images of individual children -- Aylan Kurdi's small body washed up on a beach after...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's top religious authority accused Iran's leaders of not being Muslims, drawing a rebuke from Tehran in an unusually harsh exchange between the regional rivals over the running of the annual haj pilgrimage. The war of words on the eve of the mass pilgrimage will...

U.S. President Barack Obama floated the idea of joint action with Turkey to capture the Syrian city of Raqqa from Islamic State, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said in remarks published on Wednesday. Ankara would not object, Erdogan said. Turkey, which is battling a Kurdish insurgency...