(Vox)- Israel has spent years trying to avoid getting sucked into the vicious civil war raging in neighboring Syria. It’s now wading into the conflict in a way you wouldn’t expect. On Tuesday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he has ordered his government to “find ways” to...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that the Daesh-held city of Al-Bab in northern Syria was completely besieged by the Turkish army and the Free Syrian Army (FSA). In a meeting with Albanian President Bujar Nishani in the presidential complex Wednesday, Erdogan said he has just...

Jordanian security forces have arrested a man suspected of funding an attack by ISIS that killed 10 people including a Canadian tourist, a security source said Wednesday. The suspect was detained in a raid on a house in Karak province Tuesday by police looking for the perpetrators behind...

Seven-year-old Bana al-Abed, whose Twitter account gave a tragic description of the bombing of Aleppo in Syria, on Wednesday met Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan at his palace in Ankara. Erdogan received Bana and her family at his palace, the state-run Anadolu agency said,...

Three Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes near the ISIS-controlled town of al-Bab in northern Syria, to which Turkey-backed rebels are currently laying siege, Turkey's military said on Wednesday. Around 20 Turkish soldiers have been killed in the course of the "Euphrates Shield"...

An international watchdog says ISIS militants in Mosul are deliberately targeting civilians who refuse to join them as they retreat ahead of advancing Iraqi forces. Human Rights Watch also says that Mosul civilians are increasingly being caught in the crossfire, and that at least 19 have...

Turkey-backed Syrian rebel forces besieging ISIS-controlled al-Bab have gained full control of the highway linking the town to Aleppo with intense ground and air fire support, the Turkish military said on Wednesday. In its daily round-up of the near four-month-old "Euphrates Shield"...

Twin bombings near the headquarters of an Iranian Kurdish opposition party killed seven people Tuesday, a rare attack in Iraq's relatively secure autonomous Kurdish region, a senior security official said. The bombings hit the town of Koysinjaq about 10:00 pm (1900 GMT), killing five members...

Sixteen Daesh positions were hit by Turkish military aircraft in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish military said on Tuesday. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said the land and air operation was carried in the Al-Bab area. Fighter jets destroyed 16...

Turkey's foreign minister has told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Ankara and Moscow believe followers of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen were behind the killing of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov, ministry sources said Tuesday. Ankara has also accused Gulen of orchestrating a failed...

The number of refugees from the war-battered city of Aleppo being treated in Turkish hospitals grew to 148, Turkey’s Directorate General of Press and Information announced early Tuesday. The injured, those in critical condition in particular, have been transported to hospitals in Turkey’s...

At least 22 people were killed in clashes between government forces and rebels on the outskirts of the flashpoint city of Taez in southwest Yemen, military sources said Tuesday. The fighting late Monday north of Taez, held by loyalists but partly surrounded by Shiite Houthis and their rebel...

The assassination of Russia's envoy to Turkey will likely not harm warming bilateral ties but its impact will be felt more in Syria, according to analysts surveyed by AFP. The Turkish and Russian leaders spoke immediately after the event and Turkey's foreign minister voiced its determination...

At least 57 journalists have been killed around the world in 2016 while doing their job, Reporters Without Borders said on Monday. The press freedom group said 19 were killed in Syria alone, followed by 10 in Afghanistan, nine in Mexico and five in Iraq. Almost all of those...

Turkish police detained Monday the sister and mother of the gunman who shot dead the Russian ambassador at an art gallery in the Turkish capital, broadcaster CNN Turk reported. It said the two women were detained in the southwestern Turkish province of Aydin....

Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told the Arab League Monday that if world powers fail to pressure the Syrian regime there will be no political solution to the war. "The question is not how we reach a political solution; we all want that. The question is how we can enforce...

The gunman who shot the Russian ambassador to Turkey in an attack at an art gallery Monday was an off-duty police officer who worked in the Turkish capital, two security sources told Reuters. Russia's foreign ministry earlier confirmed that the ambassador, Andrey Karlov, had died in the...

Russian ambassador to Turkey dies of gunshot wound: RIA cites sources   The Russian ambassador to Ankara was seriously wounded in a gun attack at an art gallery in the Turkish capital on Monday, NTV and other broadcasters reported. The Russian foreign ministry confirmed the...

Turkey on Monday denied it had forged any secret "bargain" with Russia over the future of Syria ahead of a key ministerial meeting including Iran, despite improving cooperation that led to a deal for evacuations from war-wrecked Aleppo. Turkey and Russia saw relations plunge to their worst...

Several villages held by ISIS have been captured by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a coalition of militias backed by the United States that includes a strong Kurdish contingent, an organization that monitors the war said on Monday. The advance is part of a military campaign backed by an...