A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after sharing on social media a caricature seen as insulting Islam, witnesses and state media said. The gunman was arrested at the scene, state news...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said U.S. federal attorneys took aim at him in their prosecution of a Turkish gold trader accused of helping to violate sanctions against Iran, Turkish media reported on Sunday. U.S. authorities arrested Reza Zarrab, a dual Turkish-Iranian national who has...

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a commercial street of Baghdad on Sunday, killing seven and wounding 28, according to police sources. The explosion happened in Iskan, a mostly Shi'ite district in the west of the Iraqi capital. Islamic State has stepped up bomb attacks in...

Turkey condemned Sunday recent airstrikes by the Syrian regime and "its supporters" on residential areas in opposition-held parts of Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said it strongly condemned the attacks over the past few days targeting Aleppo,...