(Reuters) - Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets", the head of Britain's MI5 Security Service said on Thursday. Speaking after gunmen killed 12 people in an assault on...

(Reuters) - Israel 's top military officer said on Thursday he was disappointed rather than worried about a Palestinian move to join the International Criminal Court, calling it unnecessary because Israel could investigate complaints itself. Lieutenant General Benjamin Gantz,...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan strongly condemned Thursday the killing of "thousands" of people in a Nigerian town by Boko Haram militants. "Terror attacks in which innocent people are brutally killed cannot be tolerated regardless of religion, civilization, and...

Turkey will “never close its door to incomers” the country’s prime minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, has said. Davutoglu was speaking after a meeting in Ankara with Thorbjorn Jagland, the secretary general of the Council of Europe, on Wednesday. Prime Ministry sources said the...