The U.S.-led war on Islamic State has depleted the group's funds, leadership and foreign fighters, but the biggest battle yet is expected later this year in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, where Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared his "caliphate" two years ago. The jihadist insurgents have lost...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu have agreed "in principle" to meet in Moscow, according to the Russian Foreign Ministry Thursday. "Netanyahu and Abbas have agreed in principle to meet in Moscow,” spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a weekly...

Turkey has agreed to allow German lawmakers to visit soldiers stationed at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey in October, signaling some progress in easing strains between the two NATO allies, Germany's Foreign Minister said on Thursday. Turkey had banned German lawmakers from visiting the base in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish authorities found a “dangerous” recipe to prepare highly effective poisons which can be used in wide spread operations in the house of Jihadists who previously fought in the ranks of al-Nusra Front according to Turkish media reports. The recipe depends on biological...

Turkey jailed 16 businessmen pending trial on Thursday and issued arrest warrants for dozens of military officers over alleged links to the U.S.-based cleric blamed by Ankara for July's attempted coup, Turkish media said. Authorities have already detained tens of thousands of people over...

Operations in Mosul and Raqqa are vitally important if Iraq and Syria are to be cleansed of Daesh, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Wednesday. Following a meeting in London with the High Negotiations Committee, which represents Syrian opposition groups, Cavusoglu told Turkish...

An Iraqi Shi'ite militia said on Wednesday it had dispatched more than 1,000 fighters to the frontline in neighboring Syria, escalating foreign involvement in the battle for Aleppo, the biggest prize in five years of relentless civil war. New footage emerged of civilians choking in the...

Three Turkish soldiers were killed and four injured Tuesday in a Daesh attack in Syria’s Aleppo province, the military said. “Rockets were launched at two Turkish tanks operating in Wuguf district of Aleppo on Tuesday,” the Turkish General Staff said in an emailed statement. “During the...

(Reuters) - Saudi Arabia's top religious authority accused Iran's leaders of not being Muslims, drawing a rebuke from Tehran in an unusually harsh exchange between the regional rivals over the running of the annual haj pilgrimage. The war of words on the eve of the mass pilgrimage will...

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ANKARA  The PKK and Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) are making joint efforts to create insecurity in southeast Turkey, Food, Agriculture and Livestock Minister Faruk Celik said Tuesday. In remarks made during his meeting with Anadolu Agency's Editor's Desk in Ankara, Celik...

GAZA CITY, Palestine Israeli forces shelled the northern Gaza Strip early Tuesday after allegedly coming under fire from the blockaded Palestinian territory.  The Israeli military said in a statement its forces came under fire across the border with the Gaza Strip.  “In...

BAGHDAD At least ten people were killed early Tuesday in a car bombing claimed by Daesh group in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.   A car packed with explosives blew up near a hospital in the Shia predominantly al-Karada district in central Baghdad, police officer Hassan al-Noufal told...

ANKARA Turkish fighter jets have hit 12 PKK targets in northern Iraq on Tuesday, according to security sources. The Turkish Armed Forces hit four targets in the Metina region of northern Iraq and in Cukurca, a district of Turkey’s southeastern Hakkari province, the source said on...

GAZA, Palestine  Around 65,000 Palestinians are still displaced since Israel waged a war on the Gaza Strip in 2014, according to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees. "When the Israeli offensive stopped in 2014, [a total of] 100,000 Gazans were not able...

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued an angry rebuke to "blasphemous" regional rival Saudi Arabia on Monday, calling on the Muslim world to question its management of Islam's holiest sites. "Because of Saudi rulers' oppressive behaviour towards God's guests, the world of...

HAKKARI, Turkey  Two soldiers were martyred in fresh clashes with the PKK terrorist organization in Turkey's southeastern Hakkari province, the city governorship said on Monday. Gendarmerie special forces supported by the army's air and land forces along with artillery units had been...

ANKARA Turkey’s annual consumer price inflation rate has declined in August, official data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) revealed on Monday. The annual inflation rate was 8.05 percent in August compared to 8.79 percent in July, significantly better than median...

JERUSALEM  Palestinians activists have called on the Palestinian Authority (PA) to release six hunger-striking prisoners, who have been held for months in Palestinian prisons without charge.  Protesters gathered in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Saturday, according to...

Politics and religion combined on Sunday to halt much of Israel's train service at the start of its working week. Bowing to demands by ultra-Orthodox partners in the governing coalition, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered rail maintenance suspended on Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath -...