Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday that Iraq could not deal alone with driving Islamic State from the city of Mosul and that the presence of Turkish forces in a nearby military camp was an insurance against attacks on Turkey. Turkey has been locked in a row with Iraq's central...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Saturday plans should be considered to give Yazidis in Iraq protected areas to retreat to in the north of the country. "The plans are not finished yet, I'll be honest with you, but they are on the agenda," Merkel told a conference of the youth wing of...

(Bloomberg)- The Saudi-led coalition’s air attack on a funeral in Yemen’s capital Sana’a that killed more than 100 people this month was caused by wrong information provided by the Yemeni army, the Saudi-led investigation team said. A party affiliated to the Yemeni Presidency of the General...

At least 11 people were killed in a suicide bombing that targeted Shias in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Saturday, according to a local police officer.  A bomber blew up his explosive vest inside a mourning tent in Baghdad’s northern al-Shaab district, Zahir al-Aaraji told Anadolu...

The leader of the Shia Houthi militia on Thursday accused the U.S. of planning an attack on Yemen’s Al-Hodeida province following a U.S. cruise missile strike one day earlier that targeted Houthi positions along Yemen’s Red Sea coast. In a statement broadcast by the Houthi-run Al-Maseera...

Army troops backed by pro-government tribal fighters have captured the Haditha-Biji road in Iraq’s western Anbar province from the Daesh terrorist group, according to military sources. The Iraqi army on Thursday launched a "broad operation" to retake the road, which lies some 160 kilometers...

The US-led coalition is increasing airstrikes in and around the militant-held city of Mosul as Iraqi ground forces build up ahead of a planned operation to retake the city, it said in a statement Friday. The coalition said its planes had conducted more than 50 airstrikes against the Islamic...

Foreign academics have told Anadolu Agency Turkey’s military intervention in northern Syria will deliver a quick defeat of Daesh. In interviews conducted on the sidelines of the Al-Sharq Forum's Istanbul conference on Oct. 8 and 9, the academics said the West needed to be more cooperative...

An Israeli defense body says it is increasing its efforts to crack down on attempts to smuggle items to the Gaza Strip that Israel prohibits on security grounds. COGAT said on Thursday that it banned used auto parts for four-by-four vehicles from entering the Palestinian territory after...

Any mistake in a planned U.S.-backed operation to drive Islamic State from the Iraqi city of Mosul could result in hundreds of thousands of refugees, Turkish presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said on Thursday. Turkey is locked in an escalating row with Iraq over who should take part in...

The Turkish Armed Forces sacked 109 military judges on Thursday, the defense ministry said, further extending a crackdown which has targeted tens of thousands of state employees as part of an investigation into an attempted coup in July. Ankara says a stream of suspensions, dismissals and...

Israel and Turkey will consider building a pipeline that would carry Israeli natural gas to Turkey and onward to European markets, Israel's energy minister said Thursday, during a first visit by an Israeli minister since the countries ended a six-year rift this summer. Yuval Steinitz told...

French and Kurdish forces in northern Iraq were attacked by an exploding drone, the Pentagon said Wednesday, adding a new worry to the wars in Iraq and Syria as militant groups learn to weaponize their store-bought drones. Air Force Col. John Dorrian, the spokesman for the U.S.-led military...

A Palestinian military court slapped a military officer Wednesday with a one-year jail term for criticizing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ participation at the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres last month, according to the officer's lawyer. "Lieutenant-Colonel Osama...

Five young men were executed by Daesh militants in the Daesh-held city of Mosul in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province for alleged collaboration with Iraqi security forces, an army source told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday. "Daesh militants beheaded five young men in front of a crowd of people in...

The population of the Israeli-blockaded Gaza Strip has now surpassed the two-million mark, the Interior Ministry in Gaza’s Hamas-run government has announced. In a statement, the ministry’s General Directorate for Civil Affairs said the strip’s total population had surpassed two million...

Three civilians were killed when two bombings rocked Iraqi capital Baghdad on Wednesday, according to a security source. Baghdad Police Colonel Salem al-Numaan told Anadolu Agency that the first bomb had gone off near a crowded market in southern Baghdad’s Al-Mahmudiya district, killing two...

The Turkish army killed at least 47 Daesh terrorists in northern Syria in the past 24 hours as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, the military said on Wednesday. The Turkish Air Force carried out airstrikes and launched artillery fire against Daesh positions in several areas of northern...

Turkish troops will remain at a military camp in northern Iraq until Islamic State is driven out of the nearby city of Mosul, Turkey's deputy prime minister said on Wednesday, signaling no respite in a row with Baghdad over the deployment. The Turkish soldiers are at the Bashiqa camp...

A Palestinian man died after being shot during clashes in the occupied East Jerusalem neighborhood of Silwan Tuesday night. Ali Shyouki, 20, was injured by gunfire and died after ambulances were unable to reach him as roads had been blocked by Israeli forces due to the clashes, claimed the...