Breakaway forces in Azerbaijan's Nagorno-Karabakh region said a ceasefire agreed with Azeri forces on Tuesday largely held overnight. "Last night, the ceasefire was generally maintained along the contact line," the Nagorno-Karabakh military said in a statement on Wednesday.

One Turkish soldier was lightly wounded on Tuesday after a military outpost in the southeastern province of Gaziantep came under fire from Islamic State militants from across the Syrian border, privately owned Dogan News agency said. Turkey's military responded in kind and fired...

U.S. Navy ships in the Arabian Sea intercepted and seized an arms shipment from Iran likely bound for Houthi fighters in Yemen, the military said in a statement on Monday. The weapons seized last week by the warships Sirocco and Gravely were hidden on a small dhow and included...

Tax authorities in Australia and New Zealand are probing local clients of a Panama-based law firm at the center of a massive data leak for possible tax evasion. Other jurisdictions are likely to follow suit following the leak over the weekend of details of hundreds of thousands of clients in...

Iraqi officials say a suicide attack south of Baghdad has killed at least 14 people. A police officer says the suicide bomber blew himself up on Monday inside a restaurant in Dhi Qar province that is frequented by Shiite paramilitary militia fighters. He added that at least 27...

Yemeni President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi appointed a new vice-president and prime minister on Sunday, pro-Hadi state media reported, sacking prime minister Khaled Bahah in a major shake-up ahead of peace talks later this month. Yemen has been in a civil war for more than a year...

 Fishermen in Gaza can now sail farther from the coastal territory after Israel expanded the fishing zone on Sunday. COGAT, the Israeli defense body that handles civilian issues with the Palestinians, announced the new easing of restrictions on its Arabic Facebook page. About 60 boats...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Sunday said he took offence at U.S. President Barack Obama slamming eroding press freedoms in Turkey, expressing sadness that the comments were made behind his back. "I am saddened that these kinds of comments have been made in my absence," Erdogan told...

 Brussels Airport reopens Sunday with three "symbolic" flights and strict additional security checks for passengers, marking a new era for air travel in Belgium after attacks by ISIS suicide bombers. The key travel hub has been closed since two men blew themselves up in the departure hall...

Two guards were killed in an attempted attack on an oil field in eastern Libya by suspected Islamic State militants on Saturday, a guards spokesman said. Ali al-Hassi said guards had repelled the attack on Bayda field, about 250 km (155 miles) south of the major oil terminals...

One person was killed and others injured late on Friday in a Palestinian refugee camp in south Lebanon after a dispute erupted into gunfire between rival political groups for the second time this week, Reuters witnesses and state media said. The outbreak of violence comes after...

U.S. President Barack Obama said on Friday the Iran nuclear deal has been successful so far but more work needs to be done to implement the agreement. Obama, speaking after a meeting of the six world powers that reached the deal with Tehran last summer, said the road to that...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Western countries of leaving Turkey alone in the fight against terror. In an exclusive interview with CNN's Christiane Amanpour in Washington, which aired Thursday night, Erdogan added that those countries had not met Ankara’s expectations for...

Seven police officers were killed Thursday afternoon in a PKK bomb attack in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakir, said the Turkish minister of development. Cevdet Yilmaz told reporters that 13 police officers, including one in critical condition, and 14 civilians, including one also...

Architect Zaha Hadid, whose designs include the London Aquatics Centre, has died at 65.

Ten people were wounded when an explosion hit a passing police vehicle in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir Thursday, a security source said. Broadcaster Haberturk TV said the blast hit near a bus station in the city, the largest in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Ambulances rushed to...

Over 385,000 people are facing acute food insecurity in Somalia, Peter de Clercq, the UN humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, said at a press conference in the Kenyan capital Nairobi. Most of the affected are in the northern part of Somalia where a severe drought has been aggravated by El...

In a historic first, a team of 14 Turkish researchers will arrive Friday in Antarctica on a scientific mission to study the impact of climate change. The team, including medical doctors, botanists, survey and geological engineers, and oceanographers from seven Turkish universities, is set to...

Members of Libya's U.N.-backed Presidential Council reached Tripoli by ship on Wednesday, defying attempts to keep them out of the city and prevent them from installing a unity government. Seven members of the Council including Fayez Seraj, its head and the new government's...

The U.S. military said on Wednesday that it would deploy rotations of U.S.-based armored brigade combat teams to Europe, part of a wider effort to counter what the United States sees as Russian aggression on the continent. The teams will be on nine-month rotations starting in...