The Justice and Development (AK) Party clinched victory after securing over 50 percent of votes in Turkey’s 26th general election Sunday, according to preliminary results based on 81.37 percent of counted votes. Electoral committees across the country’s 81 provinces, divided into...

Leaders of top political parties in Turkey have cast their votes in the country's 26th general election. Turkish Prime Minister and Justice and Development (AK) Party leader Ahmet Davutoglu voted in his hometown in central Anatolian Konya province Sunday.   “We go to polls to do...

Lebanon’s army on Saturday fired at a vehicle carrying Islamist militants, killing three of them and wounding two others in the north of the country near the Syrian border, a security source said. The source said it was unclear which group the militants belonged to. They were driving near the...

An Egyptian television station suspended a female presenter's programme on Friday following online outrage after she shamed and allegedly stole personal pictures from a sexual harassment victim on her show. Stressing its "respect for all women and girls", the privately owned Al-Nahar channel...