Seven police officers were killed Thursday afternoon in a PKK bomb attack in the southeastern Turkish province of Diyarbakir, said the Turkish minister of development. Cevdet Yilmaz told reporters that 13 police officers, including one in critical condition, and 14 civilians, including one also...

Ten people were wounded when an explosion hit a passing police vehicle in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir Thursday, a security source said. Broadcaster Haberturk TV said the blast hit near a bus station in the city, the largest in the mainly Kurdish southeast. Ambulances rushed to...

In a historic first, a team of 14 Turkish researchers will arrive Friday in Antarctica on a scientific mission to study the impact of climate change. The team, including medical doctors, botanists, survey and geological engineers, and oceanographers from seven Turkish universities, is set to...

By launching nuclear-capable missiles Iran has defied a United Nations Security Council resolution that endorsed last year's historic nuclear deal, the United States and its European allies said in a joint letter seen by Reuters on Tuesday. Iran's recent ballistic tests involved...

An EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus on Tuesday by a man with what authorities said was a fake suicide belt, who was arrested after giving himself up. The passengers and crew were unharmed. Eighty-one people, including 21...

A man thought to be strapped with explosives hijacked an Egyptian plane on a flight between Alexandria and Cairo on Tuesday and forced it to land in Cyprus, Egyptian officials said. After the EgyptAir plane landed at Larnaca airport, the hijacker released all the people onboard...

Turkey's Foreign Ministry summoned Germany's ambassador last week over a satirical broadcast by German television station NDR, Spiegel magazine's online edition reported on Monday. The ambassador, Martin Erdmann, was called to the ministry last Tuesday over the NDR broadcast on March 17 that...

Turkish security forces have killed 5,359 Kurdish militants since the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) abandoned a two-year ceasefire in July, the state-run Anadolu news agency cited President Tayyip Erdogan as saying on Monday. Erdogan said 355 soldiers, police officers and village...

Hundreds of people have fled their homes in Iraq’s northern city of Mosul as security forces pressed ahead with an offensive aimed at recapturing the city from the Daesh terrorist group. In a Sunday statement, Iraq’s Joint Operations Command said Iraqi forces had taken in some 2,000 refugees...

The process for a new constitution is to be accelerated to meet the expectations of Turkish people , said Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Saturday. Davutoglu spoke during World Turkish Entrepreneurs Assembly of Foreign Economic Relations Board in Istanbul. Stating that a roadmap had...

Egyptian prosecutors ordered the detention of four relatives of the head of an alleged criminal gang which police said was found with belongings of murdered Italian student Giulio Regeni, judicial sources said on Saturday. The gang leader's wife, brother, sister, and...

A suicide attacker detonated an explosive belt in a park outside Baghdad on Friday, killing 26 people and wounding 71, said the security head in Babel province where the bomb - claimed by Islamic State - went off. The blast in Iskandariya, a mixed Sunni and Shi'ite Muslim town 40...

Powerful Iraqi Shiite Muslim leader Moqtada al-Sadr warned political party leaders Friday they would face street protests if they obstruct a government overhaul planned by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to fight corruption. Sadr also called on Abadi to announce a new cabinet lineup by Saturday...

Iraq's armed forces started on Thursday an offensive against Islamic State militants in the region around Mosul, pushing them out from several villages, according to a military statement on state TV.``The first phase of the Fatah (Conquest) Operation has been launched at dawn to...

An Iranian-backed militia said on Monday it said it would treat U.S. Marines deployed in Iraq to fight Islamic State as forces of occupation and "deal" with the foreign troops. Washington said on Sunday a detachment of the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit was in Iraq, bolstering...

Turkish newspapers carried front-page pictures on Monday of three more men believed to be planning suicide bomb attacks for ISIS, after a suspected member of the radical militant group killed three Israelis and an Iranian in Istanbul. Sunday's attack on Istiklal Street, a long pedestrian...

Thousands of Kurds gathered for the Newroz spring festival in Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey on Monday under tight security after months of fighting between security forces and Kurdish separatists, and a series of bombings in Istanbul and Ankara. The armed Kurdistan Workers'...

Police were on high alert across Turkey on Sunday after the previous day's attack by a suicide bomber in Istanbul's most popular shopping district, killing three Israelis and an Iranian, with dozens more people wounded in the blast. Israeli President Benjamin Netanyahu told...

  At least 13 Egyptian policemen were killed in the Sinai Peninsula when Islamist militants fired a mortar round at a security checkpoint in the city of Arish, security and medical sources said on Saturday. Islamic State claimed responsibility on several websites for the...

Three Israelis and one Iranian were killed in Saturday's suicide bombing in a busy shopping district of Istanbul, Turkish media reported. The victims were named as Israelis Simha Siman Demri, 60, Yonathan Suher, 40, Avraham Goldman, 70, and Iranian national Ali Rıza Khalman, 31, the...