President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has left for Azerbaijan and the breakaway northern part of ethnically divided Cyprus, making his first foreign trip since being sworn in as Turkey's first executive president with sweeping powers. Erdogan's trip on Tuesday came a day after he took the oath...

An Iraqi military spokesman says an airstrike has killed 20 Daesh (ISIS) militants outside the northern city of Mosul. In a statement issued on Monday, Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool says the slain militants were hiding inside a tunnel in Badoush area northwest of Mosul. Rasool says...

Iraq's election commission began Monday the manual recount for more ballots from parliamentary elections held two months ago that were marred by allegations of fraud and irregularities. Iraq's May 12 balloting was the country's fourth national elections since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion...

The trial of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife Sara, charged with fraud and breach of trust, has been postponed for three months, the court administration said Monday. Sara Netanyahu's trial, which was set to open at the Jerusalem magistrates court on July 19, will...