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Turkey detained pro-Kurdish MPs for 'encouraging terrorism'

A dozen lawmakers from Turkey's opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which has Kurdish roots, were detained on Friday because they refused to give testimony in criminal proceedings, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said. Democratically elected officials normally can only be forced from...

8 ISIS terrorists killed in northern Syria

Eight Daesh terrorists have been killed by coalition forces in seven airstrikes in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, Turkish Armed Forces said Friday. In addition, two defense emplacements and two mortars of Daesh have been destroyed in the airstrikes on Jabal Khirbat...

Home of Yemen's rebels struggles after strikes' devastation

All along the main street, buildings are crumpled beyond recognition, roofs punched in and pancaked. Historic mud-brick houses in its walled old city are pounded to dust. Saada, the birthplace of Yemen's Shiite rebels, has been one of the most densely bombed cities in Yemen during the past 19...

Explosion hits southeast Turkey, 6 injured

A vehicle bomb attack on a police station in the largest city in southeast Turkey resulted in injuries on Friday, the provincial governor’s office said. The Diyarbakir Governorate did not give a casualty figure but a security source earlier told Anadolu Agency that six people had been...