GAZA, Palestine  Around 65,000 Palestinians are still displaced since Israel waged a war on the Gaza Strip in 2014, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. "When the Israeli offensive stopped in 2014, [a total of] 100,000 Gazans were not able...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued an angry rebuke to "blasphemous" regional rival Saudi Arabia on Monday, calling on the Muslim world to question its management of Islam's holiest sites. "Because of Saudi rulers' oppressive behaviour towards God's guests, the world of...

HAKKARI, Turkey  Two soldiers were martyred in fresh clashes with the PKK terrorist organization in Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province, the city governorship said on Monday. Gendarmerie special forces supported by the army's air and land forces along with artillery units had been...

ANKARA Turkey’s annual consumer price inflation rate has declined in August, official data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) revealed on Monday. The annual inflation rate was 8.05 percent in August compared to 8.79 percent in July, significantly better than median...