Iraq's foreign minister said on Wednesday it could resort to military means if forced to defend itself from what it says is an intrusion of Turkish forces into part of its north. Turkey said it had deployed a force protection unit earlier this month to the area due to...

Iranian Revolutionary Guards launched rockets near the U.S. aircraft-carrier Harry S. Truman and other warships as they were entering the Gulf on Saturday, giving only brief notice in a "highly provocative" act, a U.S. military spokesman said on Tuesday. NBC News, citing unnamed U.S. military...

Two people were arrested in Belgium on Sunday and Monday, both suspected of plotting an attack in Brussels on New Year's Eve, federal prosecutors said. Police found military clothing and Islamic State propaganda material but no weapons or explosives, prosecutors said on Tuesday....

The Iraqi army will need Kurdish fighters' help to retake Mosul, the largest city under the control of Islamic State, Iraqi Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said, with the planned offensive expected to be very challenging. Mosul, 400 km (250 miles) north of Baghdad, has been designated by the...

Translation by Yusra Ahmed (Zaman Al Wasl- Eqtsad)- It is not the first time for the Syrian young man Ayham to lsoe his jon in Gaziantep, but it is the hardest, because it has coincided with the end of the year time, when most companies and business firms sammarise their annual account and...

Turkey sees no normalization in ties with Israel unless its conditions for ending the Gaza blockade and compensation for the deaths of 10 Turkish activists in 2010 are met, a presidential spokesman said on Monday. Relations between Turkey and Israel soured when the activists were killed in a...

Boko Haram Islamic extremists struck the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri for the first time in months Monday with rocket-propelled grenades and multiple suicide bombers, witnesses said. At least 50 people were killed and the death toll could go higher. At least 30 were killed and more...

 Iraqi forces swept the devastated streets of Ramadi for bombs Monday, after recapturing the city they lost in May and clinching a major victory against ISIS. Pockets of extremists may remain in parts of the city but the army said it had faced no resistance since ISIS fighters abandoned...

(Al Arabiya)- A senior Egyptian judge died on Sunday of wounds he sustained in an explosion that also killed two people and injured 11 others in the city of Giza, Al Arabiya News Channel and local media reported. Vice president of the Egyptian State Lawsuit Authority Rashwan Hussein Rashwan...

Eight people died in the greater Dallas area as a storm system brought tornadoes and flooding on Saturday, increasing the death toll from harsh weather in the southern United States this week to 26, according to officials and local media. Authorities in Garland confirmed that...

Iraqi forces have totally encircled the government complex in Ramadi, the last stronghold of Islamic State militants in the western city, and are about to enter it, joint operations command spokesman Yahya Rasool told Reuters. "We're clearing the buildings and streets around the...

PKK terrorist organization killed a three-month-old baby and her grandfather in Turkey's southeastern Sirnak province Saturday, local security sources told Anadolu Agency. The incident took place in the province’s Cizre town. The baby named Miray Ince reportedly got shot when her aunt Rukiye...

Britain's government was holding emergency talks Sunday as flooding in northern England forced hundreds of people to leave their homes, including in the historic tourist destination of York. Prime Minister David Cameron will chair a call of the COBRA emergency committee as the floods cause...

An Egyptian court has convicted two police officers in absentia over torturing a detainee to death and critically injuring another as part of a government crackdown on police abuses. Judge Saeed Sabry on Saturday sentenced the officers to life in prison after the prosecution presented forensic...

A Kurdish militant group once linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) has claimed responsibility for an attack at Istanbul's second airport this week that left an aircraft cleaner dead and injured another. In a statement, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK) said they...

The Palestinian interior ministry in Gaza accused Egyptian forces on Saturday of killing a mentally-ill Palestinian who had waded through the sea into Egypt's territory. The incident happened on Friday, Gaza's interior ministry said. Video broadcast by Al-Jazeera network showed the man walking...

Turkey's prime minister Saturday cancelled a planned meeting with the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, saying its politics was rooted in violence, as government forces pursued a major security operation in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was due to...

Iraqi troops who have fought their way deep into the Islamic State stronghold of Ramadi were consolidating their positions on Friday ahead of a planned final assault to capture the city.Soldiers were clearing bombs from roads and homes in districts of Ramadi they had already taken since...

 Pope Francis offered his full support for U.N. efforts to end the conflicts in Syria and Libya in his Christmas message Friday. "We pray... that the agreement reached in the United Nations may succeed in halting as quickly as possible the clash of arms in Syria and in remedying the...

Reporting by Abdullah al-Ghadawi (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source told Zaman al Wasl that Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif was very upset over a Jordanian terror list submitted to the United Nations last week, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, Hezbollah and...