The death toll from the collapse of an eight-storey building in Istanbul rose to six on Thursday, while 13 others were wounded, the governor of Turkish city said. The residential building, in the Kartal district on the Asian side of the city, collapsed on Wednesday. It was not immediately...

The Israeli army has released a Lebanese national arrested earlier this week for illegally crossing the border between the two countries. “The army arrested the suspect on Tuesday for infiltrating Israel from Lebanon," Israeli army spokesman Avichai Adraee said in a statement....

At least 18 members of the Daesh terrorist group were killed in two separate army operations in Iraq’s northern Kirkuk and Saladin provinces, according to official sources. In a Thursday statement, Iraqi police spokesman Yehia Rasool said that army forces, with support from U.S.-led...

A Syrian nonprofit organization on Wednesday urged the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to make strides to investigate 191 chemical attacks by the regime of Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said in a report at least 221 chemical attacks...