Iraq said on Wednesday its U.S.-backed military campaign against Islamic State had retaken around two-thirds of the territory seized by the militants in their lightning sweep across the country's north and west in 2014. "Daesh's presence in Iraqi cities and provinces has declined. After...

Turkey has killed 3,000 Islamic State fighters in Syria and Iraq, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday, adding that no other country is fighting Islamic State as Ankara is. NATO member Turkey was initially a reluctant partner in the U.S.-led coalition against Islamic State and faced...

Turkish air strikes in the southeastern province of Hakkari and in northern Iraq killed 11 Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) fighters on Tuesday, the armed forces said in a statement on Wednesday. It also said security operations in southeast Turkey killed three PKK fighters in Nusaybin and four in...

A car bomb claimed by Islamic State in a Shi'ite Muslim district of Baghdad killed at least 52 people and wounded more than 78 others on Wednesday, Iraqi police and hospital sources said, the largest attack inside the city for months. Security has gradually improved in the Iraqi capital, which...

A car bomb in the eastern Iraqi city of Baquba killed at least 12 people and wounded more than 40 on Monday near a popular restaurant close to the city center, police and hospital source said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blast in the provincial capital of Diyala, a...

The trial of an Israeli soldier charged with manslaughter after he was caught on video fatally shooting a wounded Palestinian attacker in the West Bank has started before a military court in the coastal city of Jaffa. The case has divided Israel, with defense officials criticizing the soldier's...

Turkish warplanes destroyed bunkers, gun emplacements, and ammunition depots belonging to the terrorist PKK organization in northern Iraq early Sunday. Speaking on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking with the media, military sources said that Turkish warplanes carried out...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday accused European countries of hypocrisy in pressing his country on terror laws while "sidelining democracy" at home in their own fight against terrorism. "Those who criticise us are reduced to sidelining democracy and freedoms when bombs...

Unidentified gunmen killed eight policemen including an officer in an attack on a police vehicle in Helwan, south of Cairo, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said in a statement on Sunday.

The leader of Hamas in Gaza said on Friday the Islamist group was "not calling for war" with Israel, and that Egypt and other parties were working behind the scenes to defuse the worst flare-up in violence since a 2014 conflict. Israel's military has traded blows with Hamas over the past few...

Iraqi security forces ramped up their presence across Baghdad on Friday, blocking most major roads and bridges to keep followers of Shi'ite Muslim cleric Moqtada al-Sadr from reaching the government district they stormed a week earlier. A Sadr representative meanwhile called on supporters to...

Turkish warplanes attacked and destroyed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant targets in northern Iraq early on Friday, including shelters and gun positions, military sources said. Turkey has been carrying out regular attacks on PKK camps and related targets in the mountainous region of...

Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Thursday announced he was stepping down as ruling party chief and premier, in a shock resignation set to further boost President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's growing powers. Divisions between Davutoglu and Erdogan that had been rumoured for months...

Turkey's ruling party is set to replace Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu at an extraordinary congress in the coming weeks, officials said on Wednesday, signaling the end of his term as premier and plunging the country into political uncertainty. The decision, confirmed to Reuters by five AK...

Turkey has accepted in principle visa-free entry for tourists from the EU, a notice in the official gazette said Tuesday. However, the measure will only be implemented once the EU accepts visa-liberalization for Turkish nationals. The European Commission is due to make a recommendation on...

The European Union warned Egypt on Monday over the recent storming of a labor union building in Cairo and the arrest of journalists. The statement comes after the country’s security forces raided the Egyptian Press Syndicate's offices on Sunday. Undercover police officers detained two...

Three bombs went off in and around Baghdad Monday, killing at least 14 people, including Shiite Muslim worshipers conducting an annual pilgrimage inside the capital, police and medical sources said. The largest blast, which ISIS said it was behind, came from a parked car bomb in the Saydiya...

Egyptian police on Sunday raided the press syndicate in Cairo and arrested two journalists critical of the government, a syndicate official and reporters said in what the syndicate called an unprecedented crackdown. The interior ministry denied officers had stormed the press labor union...

Two car bombs in the center of the southern Iraqi city of Samawa on Sunday killed at least eight people and wounded about 16 others, two police source said. The first blast was near the provincial council building and the second one about 60 meters (yards) away at a bus station, a police...

A police officer was killed and 13 people, including nine police officers, were wounded in a car bomb attack at a police headquarters in Turkey's Gaziantep, one of two attacks on Sunday, security sources and the provincial governor said. Footage from CNN Turk broadcaster showed pieces of a...