By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Despite the passing of almost one month on coup, the Turkish media is increasing its reports and investigations about the failed coup, its repercussions, connections, the role of the prominent persons accused in being involved in it, especially the high...

At least 16 people have died amid a cholera outbreak in parts of the troubled Central African Republic (CAR), local authorities and international humanitarian groups said Friday. The United Nations’ Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs (OCHA) said in a statement that the Central...

Libyan forces engaged in renewed clashes with Islamic State militants in Sirte on Thursday, a day after capturing a convention complex that had been a symbol of the militant group's authority in the city. Forces aligned with Libya's U.N.-backed government seized the Ouagadougou convention...

Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton on Thursday blasted her Republican rival’s visions and policies for the economy, tax reforms and regulations. "[Donald] Trump would roll back tough rules on the financial industry. I'll do the opposite -- we should strengthen those rules so that...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday gave the U.S. an ultimatum following Ankara's repeated requests for the extradition of US-based preacher Fetullah Gulen, accused of orchestrating the July 15 defeated coup. "Sooner or later the U.S will make a choice. Either Turkey or FETO," Erdogan...

Saudi Arabia intercepted two ballistic missiles fired at the kingdom by Yemen's armed Houthi movement on Wednesday, Saudi-owned Al Arabiya TV reported. The attack follows renewed air strikes by a Saudi-led military coalition on the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital, Sanaa. Thirteen civilians...

(Hurriyet Daily News)- Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan departs for Russia on Aug. 9 to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg in his first trip abroad since the failed coup attempt of July 15. It will also be Erdoğan’s first visit to Russia after the crisis that began...

The U.S. State Department has approved the potential sale of more than 130 Abrams battle tanks, 20 armored recovery vehicles and other equipment, worth about $1.15 billion, to Saudi Arabia, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The approval for land force equipment coincides with Saudi Arabia leading...

Iran has executed an Iranian nuclear scientist detained in 2010 when he returned home from the United States, after a court convicted him of spying for Washington, a spokesman for the judiciary said on Sunday. "Through his connection with the United States, (Shahram) Amiri gave vital...

At least 11 Iraqis were killed, including six army troops, in a suicide bombing south of Mosul on Sunday, according to a local Iraqi official. Saleh al-Jabouri told Anadolu Agency that several Daesh militant wearing explosive belts had attacked Ajhala village, 60km south of Mosul. “While some...

U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass has strongly refuted recent media reports and accusations that his country was involved in or had any advance knowledge of the July 15 failed coup attempt in Turkey, while also elaborating on how he personally and his staff in Ankara experienced the night of...

 They could see the fireworks but they have felt no impact from the Olympic Games. Residents of the Mangueira favela or slum, which overlooks the Maracana Stadium where the 2016 Olympic opening ceremony was held, expressed a mix of pride and disappointment as the Games opened in Rio de...

 The U.S. military killed three al Qaeda operatives in a strike on Thursday in Yemen, U.S. Central Command said on Friday. The Central Command statement did not specify how the strike was carried out or the identities of those killed.

Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attempted to disrupt a Palestinian solidarity conference in Tunisia on Thursday, the event's organisers have said. Assad activists stormed the room raising Syrian and Palestinian flags as they chanted "resistance, resistance, no to normalisation"....

A leading Arab think-tank has hit back at what it has called "far-fetched assumptions" in the British media over its organising of a conference studying the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement. The Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies  has rejected insinuations...

Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi has denied any family tie with the prime minister he has just nominated following criticism that the two were related by marriage. The 90-year-old leader said Youssef Chahed "is not a member of my family." Sections of the media and opposition members have...

 Thousands of Yazidis are being held captive by Islamic State in Syria where many are used for sexual slavery or forced to fight for the group, the United Nations said on Wednesday, on the second anniversary of what investigators termed a genocide. A U.N.-appointed commission of...

Tunisia's President Beji Caid Essebsi on Wednesday named Youssef Chahed as the new prime minister after parliament ousted Habib Essid in a vote of no-confidence because of his handling of economic reforms and security. A junior minister in Essid's government, Chahed, 41, is an agricultural...

Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian-American chemist Ahmed Zewail, a science and technology advisor to President Barack Obama and the first U.S. science envoy to the Middle East, died on Tuesday in the United States, his spokesman told Egyptian state TV. Zewail, who was 70 and a member of the...

Yemeni government negotiators said they were leaving peace talks in Kuwait on Monday after Houthi militia foes rejected a United Nations proposal aimed to ending their country's war. Foreign Minister Abdel-Malek al-Mekhlafi insisted the government was not abandoning the peace process, but...