Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused France of abetting terrorists by "hosting them" at the Elysee Palace, amid a diplomatic row between the NATO allies over Paris's support for the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). "France is abetting terrorists by hosting them at the...

 Hackers have attacked networks in a number of countries including data centers in Iran where they left the image of a U.S. flag on screens along with a warning "Don't mess with our elections", the Iranian IT ministry said on Saturday. "The attack apparently affected 200,000 router...

WASHINGTON (AFP) -  The Palestinian representative in Washington warned Friday that the situation in Gaza is explosive and that the region cannot afford to wait for the promised new US peace plan. Husam Zomlot, the Palestine Liberation Organization's envoy to the United States,...

Some 108 Kurdish militants have been "neutralized" in operations targeting southeast Turkey and northern Iraq over the past week, Turkey's armed forces said Saturday. The military uses the term "neutralized" to refer to operations in which opposition forces have been killed, wounded or...

Hundreds are attending the funeral of a well-known Palestinian journalist in Gaza who died after covering mass protests along the Israel border. Yasser Murtaja died Saturday from a gunshot wound sustained while filming Friday in an area engulfed in thick black smoke from protesters...

 Since Friday morning, thousands of Palestinians have converged on the Gaza Strip’s eastern border with Israel to take part in ongoing anti-occupation demonstrations.  At least seven Palestinians were martyred on Friday by Israeli army gunfire from the other side of the...

In a corner of the departures area at Rostov airport in southern Russia, a group of about 130 men, many of them carrying overstuffed military-style rucksacks, lined up at four check-in desks beneath screens that showed no flight number or destination. When a Reuters reporter asked the...

A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli army forces on Thursday near the Gaza Strip’s eastern border with Israel, the Palestinian Health Ministry said Thursday.  “The man’s body was brought to Gaza City’s Al-Shifa medical complex. We are in the process of trying to identify him,”...

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag says Turkey's intelligence agency has snatched at least 80 Turkish nationals wanted for their alleged links to the 2016 failed coup, in operations in 18 countries. Bozdag's comments during a television interview Thursday came after Turkey...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday met in the Turkish capital Ankara. The closed door meeting at the presidential complex started at 10.55 a.m. local time (0755GMT) and ended at 11.55 a.m. (0855GMT) . During the meeting, the...

A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces on the Gaza border Tuesday, the health ministry in the strip said, as tensions remained days after 17 people were killed when a mass demonstration led to clashes. The ministry identified the dead man as 25-year-old Ahmad Arafa, saying he was...

 Russia's President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that the Akkuyu nuclear power plant, which Turkey is about to start building with Russia, is set to be launched in 2023. Speaking on a visit to Turkey, Putin also said that he was grateful for Turkey's decision to give the Akkuyu...

A total of 374 would-be candidates will be excluded from Iraq’s upcoming parliamentary polls due to previous associations with the now-defunct Baath Party, according to Iraq’s Justice and Accountability Commission. In a Monday statement, the commission said it had finished vetting the...

Iraq, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia are cooperating closely to secure their shared borders after the Daesh terrorist group’s three-year rampage across the region, Iraqi Interior Minister Qassim al-Araji has said. “The post-Daesh era requires us to firmly secure our borders,” al-Araji said in...

Scores of Jewish settlers on Tuesday forced their way into East Jerusalem’s flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, according to a Palestinian official.   “Some 260 Jewish extremists stormed the compound this morning,” Firas al-Dib, a spokesman for Jerusalem's Jordan-run Religious...

The U.S. declined calls from the UN Security Council for an investigation into violence on the Israeli-Gaza border that left 18 Palestinians dead, a UN official said Monday. Speaking at a press conference at UN headquarters, Gustavo Meza-Cuadra, Permanent Representative of Peru to the...

The leaders of Russia and Turkey are scheduled to launch the start of the construction of Turkey's first nuclear power plant as ties between the countries deepen. Russia's Vladimir Putin, on his first foreign visit since re-election on March 18, arrives in Ankara on Tuesday for talks...

Moscow will accelerate the delivery of the Russian air defense system S-400 to Turkey, according to Kremlin press office on Monday. Revealing the agenda of the seventh meeting of High-level Russian-Turkish Cooperation Council at a news conference in Moscow, Presidential Aide Yury...

 The husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a British-Iranian woman jailed in Tehran, Monday accused Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson of "not doing enough" to secure her release and urged Prime Minister Theresa May to act. Speaking ahead of the second anniversary of her arrest on...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider reinstating a $655.5 million jury award won against the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization in a case brought by 11 American families over attacks in Israel. The court declined to hear the families' appeal...