Saudi Arabia is committed to stabilizing the global oil market, the energy ministry of the world's biggest oil exporter said on Tuesday, as prices fell below $48 a barrel. OPEC and non-OPEC countries last year pledged to reduce output by around 1.8 million barrels per day (bpd) as part of a...

Iraqi forces said Tuesday that they recaptured Mosul's train station, once one of the country's main rail hubs and the latest in a series of key sites retaken from extremists. The forces launched a major push last month to oust ISIS from west Mosul, taking back a series of neighborhoods as...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Tuesday said a 'yes' vote in the referendum next month on expanding his powers was the "best answer to Turkey's enemies", in a spiraling spat with the Netherlands and the European Union. "Our nation on April 16 at the ballot box... will give the best...

Iraq's interior ministry is holding over 1,200 men and boys suspected of ties to extremists in "horrendous conditions" without charge at facilities south of Mosul, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. Iraqi forces are fighting to retake second city Mosul from ISIS, recapturing its east before...

 A powerful explosion struck a bus in downtown Kabul during rush hour Monday, officials said, sending smoke rising in the sky just days after a deadly insurgent assault on Afghanistan's biggest military hospital. At least one woman was killed and eight others wounded in the blast, which...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has asked Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdul-Aziz al-Saud to support the listing of Saudi state oil giant Aramco shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, a Japanese senior government official said on Monday. King Salman said that the kingdom would look into...

Iraqi forces said Monday they had taken more territory from ISIS as they press an offensive that has seen them recapture a third of west Mosul and trap extremists inside. A renewed push launched on March 5 has forced ISIS out of several neighborhoods and key sites, including the main local...

 Iraqi forces battling to retake Mosul have cut the last road out of the city, trapping ISIS fighters inside, the U.S. envoy to the anti-ISIS coalition said Sunday. "ISIS is trapped. Just last night, the 9th Iraqi army division, up near Badush, just northwest of Mosul, cut off the last...

The remains of hundreds of mainly Shiite inmates killed by ISIS militants when they overran a prison in northern Iraq more than two years ago have been unearthed by forces retaking the area from the group, a spokesman said. An Iraqi Shiite paramilitary group made the discovery after driving...

It was once home to priceless archaeological treasures, but these days you get into Mosul museum in Iraq's second city via a gaping hole in the basement. In the darkness lies a pile of rubble -- all that remains of two ancient Assyrian statues of winged bulls, smashed to pieces by Islamic...

Turkey's Family Minister Fatma Betul Sayan Kaya was back in Istanbul on Sunday after being expelled from the Netherlands and escorted back to Germany by Dutch police, condemning The Hague's "ugly" treatment. "We were subjected to rude and tough treatment... Treating a female minister this...

Iraqi security forces have retaken more than a third of west Mosul from the Islamic State group since launching an assault on the area last month, a commander said Sunday. "Around more than a third of the right bank (west Mosul) is under the control of our units," Staff Major General Maan...

A Jordanian soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in a 1997 shooting rampage was released Sunday, after serving 20 years in prison. Ahmed Daqamseh had opened fire on the eighth graders while they were on a class trip to the scenic "Island of Peace" border post, also wounding seven...

Thousands of Arabs staged a protest march Saturday in northern Israel against legislation aimed at silencing mosque loudspeakers, an AFP reporter said. Some three thousand men and women marched through the town of Kabul, holding Palestinian flags and signs saying "The muezzin law won't pass"...

Turkey's coast guard has prevented 48 Syrian migrants from reaching Greece, but Turkey's foreign minister said Saturday that the migrant deal is at risk if the country's citizens aren't granted visa-free travel. The migrants on a rubber dinghy were stopped after a tip early Friday, the coast...

Turkey summoned the Dutch charge d'affaires to the foreign ministry Saturday, foreign ministry sources said, as a row between the two countries escalated with the Dutch government banning Turkey's Foreign Minister from flying to Rotterdam. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu had been due to...

ISIS has released dozens of prisoners held in jails in the districts of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul that remain under its control, residents said Saturday. The release of the prisoners Friday is another sign that the militants are being overwhelmed by the U.S.-backed Iraqi offensive...

An airstrike by a Saudi-led Arab coalition on a market in Yemen killed 20 civilians and six rebels on Friday, medical and military sources said. The aircraft tried to target rebels at a roadblock on the southern outskirts of the Red Sea port of Khoukha, but the fighters fled to a market...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan signalled in Moscow on Friday he was not giving up on his ambition to take a role in controlling the Syrian town of Manbij, telling Vladimir Putin he sought to work with a U.S.-led coalition there. Turkey considers Manbij as part of the safe zone it wants to...

Iraqi special forces battled ISIS Friday in west Mosul, where a commander said extremist resistance is showing signs of weakening under repeated assaults. The extremists are also facing simultaneous offensives in Syria by government forces, Turkish-backed rebels and a U.S.-supported alliance...