A man thought to be strapped with explosives hijacked an Egyptian plane on a flight between Alexandria and Cairo on Tuesday and forced it to land in Cyprus, Egyptian officials said. After the EgyptAir plane landed at Larnaca airport, the hijacker released all the people onboard...

Turkey's Foreign Ministry summoned Germany's ambassador last week over a satirical broadcast by German television station NDR, Spiegel magazine's online edition reported on Monday. The ambassador, Martin Erdmann, was called to the ministry last Tuesday over the NDR broadcast on March 17 that...

Turkish security forces have killed 5,359 Kurdish militants since the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) abandoned a two-year ceasefire in July, the state-run Anadolu news agency cited President Tayyip Erdogan as saying on Monday. Erdogan said 355 soldiers, police officers and village...

Hundreds of people have fled their homes in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul as security forces pressed ahead with an offensive aimed at recapturing the city from the Daesh terrorist group. In a Sunday statement, Iraq’s Joint Operations Command said Iraqi forces had taken in some 2,000...