BAGHDAD/KIRKUK (Reuters) - The Baghdad government recaptured territory from Kurds across the breadth of northern Iraq on Tuesday, making startlingly rapid gains in a sudden campaign that has shifted the balance of power in the country almost overnight. In the second day of a lightning...

Turkey's state-run agency says 11 human rights activists - including two local heads of Amnesty International - who were charged with links to terror groups will go on trial on Oct. 25. Anadolu Agency said a court on Tuesday approved the charges of "membership in a terror organization"...

Daesh (ISIS) claimed responsibility Monday for two rockets fired from Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula into southern Israel. The strikes hit the Eshkol region close to the border late Sunday without causing injury or significant damage, the army said. The militant group claimed...

Germany has suspended the training of Kurdish Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq amid concerns about growing tensions in Kirkuk, officials confirmed Monday. “The military training activities have been temporarily suspended," a German Defense Ministry spokeswoman told Anadolu Agency,...