Jordan's Prime Minister Hani Mulki submitted his resignation to King Abdullah in a customary step after Tuesday's parliamentary elections and has been asked to form a new government, an official source said on Sunday. Mulki, who was appointed last May and charged with conducting new...
With the death of a 13-year-old boy in hospital, the death toll from a terrorist attack last month on an outdoor wedding in southeastern Turkey has risen to 57. In a statement Sunday, the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office in the southeastern city of Gaziantep said that Mahsun Nas succumbed to...
A gunman shot dead Jordanian writer Nahed Hattar on Sunday outside the court where he was to stand trial on charges of contempt of religion after sharing on social media a caricature seen as insulting Islam, witnesses and state media said. The gunman was arrested at the scene, state news...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said U.S. federal attorneys took aim at him in their prosecution of a Turkish gold trader accused of helping to violate sanctions against Iran, Turkish media reported on Sunday. U.S. authorities arrested Reza Zarrab, a dual Turkish-Iranian national who has...
A suicide bomber blew himself up in a commercial street of Baghdad on Sunday, killing seven and wounding 28, according to police sources. The explosion happened in Iskan, a mostly Shi'ite district in the west of the Iraqi capital. Islamic State has stepped up bomb attacks in...
Turkey condemned Sunday recent airstrikes by the Syrian regime and "its supporters" on residential areas in opposition-held parts of Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo. In a statement, the Foreign Ministry said it strongly condemned the attacks over the past few days targeting Aleppo, which...
Israeli forces have detained around 1,000 Palestinian minors since the beginning of 2016, a Palestinian committee said Saturday. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)’s committee on detainees said some of the minors were held under Israel’s administrative detention, a policy...
Palestinian hunger striker Malek al-Qadi was released from the Israeli custody on Saturday, according to a local Palestinian NGO. “Al-Qadi was received by Palestinian medics in awake of his release from Israeli hospital,” the Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a statement. "He was...
A clash between security forces and PKK terrorists left one soldier martyred and another wounded in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir on Saturday, security sources said. The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking with the media, said that one PKK...
At least 12 killed, 23 wounded in militant attacks north of Iraqi city of Tikrit - security sources
More than 60 injured Kurdish peshmergas were sent to Turkey from Iraq to receive medical treatment in six hospitals in Ankara on Friday, a hospital source told Anadolu Agency. Speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media, the source said 62 peshmergas were...
The National Alliance for Reform, which includes candidates from Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood group, won 15 parliamentary seats in Tuesday polls, according to semi-final results announced late Thursday by Jordan’s official electoral commission. Another three seats, meanwhile, were won by...
A metrobus in Istanbul left its dedicated traffic lane early Friday, crushing four cars and stopping only after it ran against a public double-decker bus, according to local media reports. An unconfirmed number of people were injured in the accident, which happened during the morning rush...
Turkey aims to open up a safe zone in northern Syria as part of an ongoing military operation there, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday. "Here is our goal: We want to declare a safe zone that is 95 by 45 kilometers (60 by 30 miles), or 4,000-5,000 square kilometers (2,385-3,100...
A shepherd was killed by PKK terrorists in southeastern Turkey’s Sirnak province on Thursday, according to a security source. Salim Ecer, 67, was herding his sheep in Yeniaslanbasar village when he was approached by a group of PKK terrorists, the source said on condition of anonymity due to...
Turkey will not participate in a possible operation to clear the northern Syrian city of Raqqa of Daesh as long as that operation enlists the support of the PYD, the Syrian wing of the PKK terrorist group, and PYD's military wing YPG, Presidential Spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Thursday....
Iraqi security forces on Thursday recaptured the town of Al-Shirqat in the northern Saladin province from members of the Daesh terrorist group, according to military officials. "Army forces are now in control of Al-Shirqat’s city center and are clearing the area [of Daesh elements]," Juma...
More than 20,000 Syrians have returned to Jarabulus near the Turkish border, weeks after the Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army (FSA) liberated the northern Syrian town in Aleppo province, a regional official said. During the month-long Operation Euphrates Shield, some 1,200 square kilometers...
The chief public prosecutor’s office in Istanbul issued arrest warrants for around 100 members of the judiciary Thursday as part of a probe into the Fetullah Terrorist Organization, a police source told Anadolu Agency. Police teams had arrived at the Istanbul Anadolu Palace of Justice, a...
Iraq's military backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition on Thursday seized the center of Shirqat, a northern town seen as a stepping stone in the campaign to recapture Mosul from Islamic State. The army, backed by local police and Sunni Muslim tribal fighters, were still clashing...
