Thirty one Islamic State militants have been killed in clashes and U.S.-led coalition air strikes in northern Syria over the last 24 hours, the Turkish military said on Sunday, marking an escalation in violence in the area. Syrian rebels, backed by Turkish tanks and air strikes, have been...

The U.S. must follow through on a firm stance against Israeli settlements, the Palestinian envoy to the UN Riyad Mansour told Anadolu Agency. Praising a "strong reaction" from the Barack Obama administration on renewed "illegal" settlement efforts by the Jewish state, Mansour said Friday:...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday drove the first car through Istanbul’s new Eurasia Tunnel under the Marmara Sea. The president was the driver. His passengers were Prime Minister Binali Yildirim and Ahmet Arslan, transport and communications minister. The car departed from Harem on...

The Middle East can return to being a “land of culture, civilization, peace and prosperity” through strong leadership, consensus and a “new social imagination”, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Saturday. In his regular column for the English-language Daily Sabah newspaper, Kalin...

An Iraqi army division has been deployed to the Al-Ratba district near the Syrian border in the western Anbar province to fight the Daesh terrorist group, Iraq’s Defense Ministry announced Friday evening. Iraqi state television broadcast footage showing hundreds of military vehicles and...

Two terrorists thought to have been planning a car bomb attack in capital Ankara blew themselves up when confronted by police on Saturday. The pair -- said to be linked to the PKK -- died as police converged on a horse farm in Haymana, around 7 kilometers (4 miles) south of the city. No...

Two militants believed to be preparing a car bomb attack detonated explosives, killing themselves in a remote area near Ankara on Saturday after Turkish police told them to surrender, the provincial governor said. The militants, believed to be a male and female, probably had ties to the...

More than 500 Muslim leaders and clerics from 30 countries met in Istanbul on Friday to warn that the Al-Aqsa Mosque, Islam's third holiest site that is located in Jerusalem, was in danger. The religious and political leaders, representing at least 50 civil society organizations and...

A total of seven suspects have been arrested over Thursday's blast in Istanbul, which left ten people injured, anti-terror police said Friday. Among those apprehended, a suspected PKK terrorist, whose codename is "Mazlum" was caught with a fake ID card at a security checkpoint in the central...

Retaking Iraq’s Daesh-held city of Mosul from the Daesh terrorist group will be much easier if the campaign is coordinated between Baghdad and Ankara, a former Iraqi army chief-of-staff told Anadolu Agency on Friday. According to Babaker Zebari, Iraq-Turkey relations should be "reconsidered"...

Turkish EU Minister Omer Celik said Friday that while ridding the border area of Daesh, Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield has also been securing Europe’s and NATO’s borders as well. Speaking at a joint press conference with Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni in Ankara, Celik said...

The UN has warned again that the expected military offensive in Iraq's Mosul city may create a massive displacement of people. Speaking at a press conference at the UN headquarters in Geneva on Friday, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) Filippo Grandi said: "If there is a...

The Turkish army hit at least 49 Daesh targets in northern Syria early Friday as part of the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield, military said. In a statement, the Turkish Armed Forces said 49 Daesh targets had been hit with 153 Firtina (storm) howitzer fire and 116 rounds of multiple rocket...

A soldier was martyred in a PKK bomb attack in eastern Turkey’s Van province Thursday, the regional governor’s office said. According to the office, the improvised explosives attack took place at 4.15 p.m. (1415 GMT) in Van’s Gurpinar district. PKK terrorists detonated the bomb on the...

A bomb-laden motorcycle exploded near a police station in Istanbul, injuring 10 people on Thursday, the city's governor said. Speaking to reporters at the blast site, Istanbul Governor Vasip Sahin said the attack took place in Bahcelievler district, located on the European side of the city....

At least five people were killed, including three Shia militiamen, in separate bombings that rocked the Iraqi capital on Thursday, according to a local police source. One bomb targeted members of the Hashd al-Shaabi militia in the city’s northern Al-Tarmiya district, killing three of them...

The Turkish Armed Forces hit at least 78 Daesh targets in northern Syria on Wednesday as part of the ongoing Operation Euphrates Shield. In a statement, the Turkish Armed Forces said 68 Daesh targets had been hit with 252 Firtina (storm) howitzer fire and 80 rounds of multiple rocket...

An Istanbul court Thursday remanded 20 suspects in custody as part of a probe into “sleeper cells” of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group blamed for the July 15 defeated coup, a judicial source said. According to the source, speaking on condition of anonymity due to...

Turkey's Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) sent 29 ambulances to aid civil war-torn Syria on Thursday. The foundation’s Hasan Iri told Anadolu Agency that Syria needs ambulances to help treat the injured amid a wave of devastating and deadly attacks. Iri said the ambulances, donated...

A total of five PKK terrorists were killed and 18 PKK targets destroyed in Turkey's east and southeast and northern Iraq Wednesday by the Turkish Armed Forces, according to military sources. According to the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the...