The final results of Iraq's elections confirmed Saturday a breakthrough for nationalist cleric Moqtada Sadr, who was in the lead, ahead of internationally favoured prime minister Haider al-Abadi. But the possibilities for alliances to form a coalition government remain wide open....

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday described the Israeli killings of Palestinians as "thuggery, atrocity and state terror". In his opening address at the ongoing extraordinary summit of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) in Istanbul, Erdogan said: "I clearly say: what...

United Kingdom's ambassador to Ankara on Friday defined the United States' decision to move its embassy in Tel Aviv to Jerusalem as "a mistake". In a news briefing, Dominick Chilcott said: "As you may know, rather like the Turkish government, the British government’s view is we are...

The use of force against Palestinian protesters by Israel amounts to a "war crime" under the Statute of Rome, said the UN rapporteur on Palestine on Friday.  The remarks came in Geneva, at a UN Human Rights Council special session on the deteriorating human rights situation in the...