Two Turkish village guards were killed and three others wounded when a roadside bomb exploded on Thursday as their vehicle was travelling in an area near Turkey's border with Iraq and Iran, security sources said. The Turkish military launched an air-backed operation in the southeastern...

At least eight Iraqi civilians were killed Thursday in a suicide bombing north of the capital, according to a security source. The suicide bombers targeted a park in the al-Shuala area north of Baghdad, said the source, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking...

Having failed to persuade U.S. President Donald Trump to stay in the Iran nuclear accord, French President Emmanuel Macron is reaching out to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Macron heads to St. Petersburg on Thursday amid deep differences with Putin over Syria, Ukraine and alleged...

Israel's defense minister said on Thursday he plans to seek approval next week for the construction of some 2,500 new homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank. Avigdor Lieberman, writing on Twitter, said a regional planning board would be asked to designate 1,400 of the...