Two separate blasts in the Turkey's Kurdish-dominated southeast killed one Turkish soldier and wounded eight others, and Kurdish militants launched a rocket-propelled grenade at a civilian airport, officials and the state-run news agency said. One soldier was killed and three were wounded...

(Eqtsad)- Om Ahmed, a lady in her fifties from the Western Countryside of Daraa, sells domestic eggs she obtains from about 40 hens she grew in the garden of her house. “After losing my husband and my son in a an air strike, I have no source of income apart from some charitable organisations,...

 The last time U.S. Vice President Joe Biden flew to Turkey, in January, he had a stern message for President Tayyip Erdogan: his model of Islamic democracy was setting a bad example by intimidating media and threatening academics. But his tone was markedly different when he arrived in...

 A U.S. Navy ship fired warning shots toward an Iranian fast-attack craft that approached two U.S. ships, a Pentagon spokesman said on Thursday, in the most serious of a number of incidents in the Gulf area this week. "They did feel compelled ultimately to fire three warning shots and the...

Turkish stocks opened higher on Thursday as global markets wait for clues from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s annual Jackson Hole meeting on Friday as to the outlook for international monetary policy. Borsa Istanbul’s BIST-100 share index rose 348.04 points (0.46 percent) to 76,464.35 at the...

The German military is preparing for a possible withdrawal of six Tornado reconnaissance jets from Turkey's Incirlik Air Base given Ankara's continued refusal to allow German lawmakers to visit the facility, Der Spiegel magazine reported Thursday. The magazine said the German Bundeswehr was...

The Israeli army has fired missiles into the northern Gaza Strip, after a rocket was fired from the Palestinian territory into southern Israel causing no injuries or damage. A spokesperson for the Palestinian health ministry said in a social media post that a 17-year-old Palestinian youth...

 (CNN)- Usain Bolt confirmed his status as one of the greatest Olympic athletes of all-time Friday as he anchored Jamaica to 4x100-meter relay gold at Rio 2016. The triumph was the final leg of Bolt's much vaunted "triple-triple" of gold in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m events at three...

The Saudi-led coalition expressed deep regret over a decision by Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) to evacuate staff from northern Yemen and said it was trying to set up "urgent meetings" with the medical aid group. MSF said on Thursday it was evacuating its staff from six hospitals in northern...

Turkey began freeing 38,000 prisoners on Wednesday, after announcing a penal reform that will make space for tens of thousands of suspects rounded up over last month's attempted coup. The reform was one of a series of measures outlined on Wednesday in two decrees under a state of emergency...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Wednesday defended a leaked government report alleging Turkey was a hub for Islamist groups, a charge that has further strained tensions with Ankara, a key partner in efforts to stem mass migration. Turkey and Germany have had a series of disputes...

Turkish police have detained at least 24 people working for a pro-Kurdish newspaper since it was banned this week on suspicion of supporting Kurdish militants, the newspaper said. The detentions bring the number of imprisoned Turkish media workers to 99, based on figures from the European...

The cost from damage to infrastructure and economic losses in Yemen's civil war is more than $14 billion so far, according to a confidential report seen by Reuters that highlights the effort needed to rebuild the country, where more than half the population is suffering from malnutrition. "The...

Libyan forces said on Tuesday they had taken one of the last districts in central Sirte held by Islamic State militants, battling snipers and car bombs in their campaign to recapture the entire city. Forces aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government in Tripoli are three months into a campaign...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Latakia city is witnessing a choking crisis due to the scarcity of the petrol as it is only present in specific gas stations and for a limited of hours daily whereas officials and military personal obtain their need immediately and the product is leaked to be sold for...

Turkey's state-run news agency says officials have made a formal request to Greece for the extradition of eight Turkish officers who fled to the neighboring country after last month's attempted coup. Anadolu Agency said Tuesday a Justice Ministry file for the officers' return has been...

 U.S. officials said on Monday 15 inmates from the Guantanamo prison were transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the single largest transfer of Guantanamo detainees during President Barack Obama's administration. The transfer of the 12 Yemeni and three Afghan citizens brings the total...

A Saudi-led coalition air strike hit a hospital operated by Medecins Sans Frontieres in northern Yemen on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding 19, the aid group said. A Reuters witness at the scene of the attack in the Abs district of Hajja province said medics could not immediately...

Kurdish Peshmerga forces Monday said they had secured a river crossing point enabling them to open a new front against ISIS and further tighten their grip on the militants' capital Mosul. Backed by airstrikes from the U.S.-led coalition, Kurdish fighters reached Kanhash, the western side of...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz returned home on Sunday after a month-long holiday in Morocco, and ordered a month's extra pay for Saudi military and security personnel actively involved in military operations in Yemen, state news agency SPA said. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef had...