The death toll from the bombing outside a soccer stadium in Istanbul has risen to 38 people, including 30 police officers, Turkey's interior minister said Sunday, adding that Kurdish militants were believed to be responsible. "According to the latest information we have received, 38 of our...

Turkey declared a one-day morning Sunday after twin blasts ripped through the heart of Istanbul following a football match killing 29 people, mainly police, and wounding 166, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim also ordered flags to fly at half mast after a...

(The Daily Star)- A suspected car bomb outside a soccer stadium in central Istanbul wounded around 20 people on Saturday hours after the end of a match between two of Turkey's top teams, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said. Soylu, speaking in parliament during a budget hearing, said around...

The Turkish army and its allies on Saturday entered ISIS's bastion of Al-Bab in northern Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group said. "They entered Al-Bab from the northwest after violent clashes with the militants as Turkish artillery bombarded the town," the...

At least 19 PKK terrorists were killed in airstrikes carried out by Turkish jets in northern Iraq, the military announced Saturday. The Turkish General Staff said in a statement that 19 terrorists had been "neutralized" in a security operation in the Gara region of northern Iraq. At...

Separate bombings in the Iraqi capital killed 10 people and wounded another 22 on Friday, according to Iraqi officials. The Baghdad attacks mainly targeted civilians and though there was no immediate claim of responsibility, they bore all the hallmarks of ISIS in what are apparently efforts...

Turkey plans a referendum by next May on constitutional changes that would expand the powers of the president and will then hold presidential and parliamentary polls together in 2019, a deputy prime minister said on Friday. Nurettin Canikli told A Haber TV in an interview that the ruling AK...

Turkey is sending hundreds of commandos to reinforce its military campaign inside Syria, where the Turkish army has suffered increasing casualties in its fight to capture a key town from ISIS jihadists, reports said Friday. A total of 300 commandos from a base in the western Turkish province...

Hezbollah denied Friday media reports saying it had promised Russia not to retaliate against Israeli raids on targets within Syrian territories. “[The] alleged pledge from Hezbollah to Russia not to respond to the Israeli raids against targets inside Syria... is absolutely baseless and...

With ISIS's "caliphate" seemingly nearing its downfall in Iraq, the country's security agencies are preparing for a different fight against the militants, shifting away from ground offensives to a focus on intelligence work, surgical airstrikes and a higher level of cooperation with the West....

Saudi Arabia is striving to develop a homegrown defense industry but cutting reliance on foreign equipment will take years, the head of a major military development firm said Thursday. The kingdom is the world's third-biggest defense spender, but only two percent of that outlay is local....

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman Thursday said the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia was working together with the forces of Bashar Assad in the north of Aleppo province. At a news conference in Ankara, Ibrahim Kalin also said Turkey has conducted the "most intense" talks to help end...

Two Hamas militants were killed and three are missing after a tunnel in the Gaza Strip collapsed, the Islamist group's military wing said Thursday. "The Al-Qassam Brigades hail the fighters Ismail Abdul Kareem and Rami Muneer from Shejaiya, who died following the collapse of a resistance...

An air strike in the jihadist-held western Iraqi town of Al-Qaim, near the Syrian border, killed and wounded dozens of civilians Wednesday, the parliament speaker said. Speaker Salim Juburi condemned in a statement the air strike "that targeted a market area for civilians and resulted in the...

Two Turkish soldiers were killed and one was seriously wounded in a vehicle-borne bomb attack near the ISIS controlled town of al-Bab in northern Syria, broadcaster CNN Turk reported Wednesday. The attack occurred as Syrian rebels, backed by Turkish troops, aircraft and artillery, besieged...

Iraqi army units advanced from southeast Mosul towards a bridge across the Tigris in the city center on Tuesday, in an attack that could give fresh impetus to the hard fought, seven-week battle for Islamic State's northern Iraq stronghold. Campaign commander Lieutenant General Abdul Ameer...

A police officer and a youth were hospitalized Tuesday after Hamas forces clashed with hard-line Islamists in the Gaza Strip, a medical source and witnesses said. Both men suffered bullet wounds during an attempt by Gaza security forces to arrest two men from a Salafist group, followers of...

Two senior Iraqi army officers have been killed in clashes with ISIS south of the embattled extremist bastion of Mosul, the military command said Monday. The brigadier general and colonel were killed Sunday in the Sharqat area, 90 kilometers (55 miles) from Mosul where Iraqi forces are...

While the fight to retake the Iraqi city of Mosul from Islamic State is going to be difficult, it is "possible" it could be complete before President-elect Donald Trump takes office, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said on Monday. Some 100,000 Iraqi government troops, Kurdish security...

(The Express)- The British government will share Top Secret information with Turkey in a new agreement ratified in Parliament this week, amid escalating tensions between Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Vladimir Putin. Talks between Britain and Ankara began in February this year and received...