Hundreds marched through Ankara Thursday in protest at Russian and Iranian involvement in the siege of Aleppo, the latest in a series of demonstrations in Europe over the Syria crisis. Up to 800 people joined the demonstration, with some chanting "Aleppo is the world's shame" outside the...

Gulf Arab countries condemned the Syrian government's handling of a ceasefire and evacuation in Aleppo and called on Thursday for civilians trying to flee the war-torn city to be protected. An emergency meeting of Arab League representatives convened at Qatar's request discussed the...

Top state agencies and civil aid groups have completed preparations to evacuate civilians from the war-torn Syrian city of Aleppo to Turkey’s border province of Hatay, Turkish Red Crescent official said Thursday. Under the coordination of the Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency...

Turkish fighter jets have “neutralized” 20 Daesh terrorists and hit dozens of other terrorist targets in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish military said on Thursday. In an air operation targeting Daesh-held buildings in northern Syria, Turkish jets hit 59...

Residents of a wildcat Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Thursday rejected a proposal to leave voluntarily, raising fears of violence as an evacuation deadline nears. The Amona outpost, home to some 40 families, is under a High Court order to be evacuated by December 25 since it...

One of the two suicide bombers in an attack on an Istanbul soccer stadium last weekend had come from Syria, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Wednesday. The twin attacks in Istanbul on Saturday - involving a suicide bomber on foot and another in a car - killed 44 people,...

Factories churning out tens of thousands of munitions and an entire street turned into a conveyor belt for car bombs: advances by Iraqi forces around Mosul have laid bare the scale of the Islamic State group's arms industry. In the more than two years since it seized control over swathes of...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman has vowed to prevent other nations from intervening in neighboring Yemen, where it has been at war with Iranian-backed Shiite rebels since March 2015. The televised speech at the start of a meeting of his top advisory council on Wednesday included no major policy...

The Islamic State group was manufacturing weapons in and around Mosul on an industrial scale with products largely purchased in bulk from Turkey, according to a report published by an arms research group Wednesday. The findings show that IS maintained a "robust and reliable" supply chain...

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) stands ready to act as a neutral intermediary in an evacuation from eastern Aleppo being negotiated by various parties, a spokeswoman told Reuters Tuesday. ICRC spokeswoman Krista Armstrong said in Geneva: "At the moment, the different...

Saudi Arabia's top religious body Tuesday condemned what it said were "criminal massacres" by the Syrian government against civilians in Aleppo and called on the Islamic world to help save fellow Muslims. The appeal came after the United Nations said it had reports that Syrian soldiers and...

(The Daily Star)- Relatives of nine Lebanese servicemen taken hostage by Daesh (ISIS) have completed DNA tests, local media reported Tuesday. Results of will be compared with unidentified bodies found by the Syrian army in an area liberated form Daesh control, said a source quoted by the...

 Nearly 2.2 million Yemeni children are acutely malnourished, victims of the near-collapse of the health care system during two years of escalating conflict, UN children's fund UNICEF said on Tuesday. At least 462,000 are suffering from severe acute malnutrition, as food supplies have...

A meeting of a Turkish group in the U.K. parliament, hosted by a British lawmaker, was disrupted by PKK sympathizers on Monday night. During an event on British-Turkish relations organized by the U.K. branch of the Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD), a group which had posed as...

The Turkish army has dropped leaflets on the Islamic State-held city of al-Bab in Syria urging civilians to seek shelter, as rebels backed by Turkish tanks and warplanes close in on the city. The leaflets, dropped on the last urban stronghold of Islamic State in the northern Aleppo...

A crowd of men rushed through the narrow hallway of Mosul's al-Zahra clinic carrying a slight 10-year-old boy. Yousef Oday's face was covered in blood. A team of doctors quickly gathered around his cot. "What happened to you?" one of the men asked. "I have no idea. I was bleeding on one...

A bombing at Cairo's largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending Sunday mass, in the deadliest attack on Egypt's Christian minority in years. The attack comes as President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi fights battles on several fronts....

A Kurdish militant group Sunday claimed responsibility for twin attacks that ripped through the heart of Istanbul, killing 38 people, most of them police, a news agency reported. The claim was made by the Kurdistan Freedom Falcons (TAK), seen as an splinter group of the better-known...

Forty-eight Yemeni soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing claimed by ISIS in the southern port city of Aden, officials said Sunday in an updated casualty toll. "We have 48 dead and 29 wounded," all soldiers, Abdel Nasser al-Wali, health department chief for Aden, told AFP, revising an...

Turkish warplanes destroyed 27 ISIS targets and killed 12 militants in the latest operations in northern Syria, the Turkish army said Sunday. The jets hit shelters, vehicles mounted with guns, ammunition depots and other targets strikes in the al-Bab, Bzagah and Kabr al Mukri regions of...