Turkey's military said on Friday it had seized power, but President Tayyip Erdogan said the attempted coup would be put down. If successful, the overthrow of Erdogan, who has ruled Turkey since 2003, would be one of the biggest shifts in the Middle East in years, transforming one of the most...

Ankara (AFP) - Turkish troops launched a coup Friday, with soldiers taking to the streets of Ankara and Istanbul as the prime minister vowed the putschists would "pay the highest price". Jets screeched low overhead in the capital, while citizens rushed for the safety of their homes. State...

Thousands of supporters of powerful Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr filled a central Baghdad square on Friday, disregarding government pleas to scrap protests it said would distract from the war against Islamic State. The demonstration ended a respite from street actions which in April...

Turkey imposed round-the-clock curfews on 16 villages in its mainly Kurdish southeast on Thursday as security forces tried to root out militants nearby and sacked two co-mayors it accused of supporting the fighters. Authorities in the province of Diyarbakir imposed the lockdown as security...