BAGHDAD (AP)- A Baghdad court has convicted the sister of Daesh's (ISIS) leader on terrorism charges and sentenced her to death. The spokesman of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, Abdel-Sattar Bayrkdar, said in a statement Thursday that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's sister was found guilty for...

TEHRAN: A woman who publicly removed her veil in protest against Iran's compulsory headscarf law has been sentenced to 24 months in prison, three months without parole, the judiciary said Wednesday. Tehran's chief prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, who announced the sentence, did not...

A car bomb attack killed 11 people and injured more than 10 others in Jarablus, a border zone that Turkish forces and Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) took from Daesh in 2016. The suspected PKK-affiliated People's Protection Units (YPG) terrorists detonated a car bomb near a police...

ISTANBUL (AFP)- Criticism mounted in Turkey Wednesday over a decision by Saudi-owned broadcaster MBC to stop airing Turkish soap operas, stoking tensions between Ankara and Riyadh. Viewers in the Arab world have in recent years become voracious consumers of Turkish soaps ranging from...