French warplanes destroyed an Islamic State command center at Tal Afar, some 45 kilometers west of Mosul in Iraq, a French official said on Tuesday. "We hit an Islamic State command center at Tal Afar," the official said during President Francois Hollande's visit to meet his U.S. counterpart...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a phone conversation with U.S. President Barack Obama late Tuesday after Turkish Air Forces shot down a Russian warplane earlier in the day, Turkish officials said. A Russian fighter-bomber was shot down earlier Tuesday by Turkish F-16s after being...

Turkey shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border on Tuesday, saying it had repeatedly violated its air space, one of the most serious publicly acknowledged clashes between a NATO member country and Russia for half a century. Russian President Vladimir Putin said...

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu announced his new Cabinet at a press conference at Cankaya Palace in Ankara Tuesday following his meeting with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. According to the list, the new Cabinet members are: Prime Minister - Ahmet Davutoglu...

Turkey summoned Russia’s charge d’affaires to the Foreign Ministry on Tuesday over the downing of a Russian warplane that violated Turkish airspace. Sergei Panov, Moscow’s envoy in Ankara, was called to a meeting with Ahmet Muhtar Gun, acting undersecretary, according to the ministry....

 Iran's ambassador to Russia said on Monday that Moscow had started the procedure of supplying Tehran with S-300 anti-missile rocket system, according to the Tasnim news agency. Russia and Iran signed a contract for Moscow to supply Tehran with S-300 surface-to-air missile systems on Nov....

Iraq said it was suspending flights between Baghdad and the northern cities of Erbil and Sulaimaniya for two days starting on Monday due to military traffic from Russia's air campaign in neighboring Syria. Iraq's civil aviation authority said in a statement the decision was...

A gunshot was fired at the car of Turkey's pro-Kurdish opposition leader Selahattin Demirtas on Sunday evening, a spokesman for his political party said. The rear window of Demirtas's bullet-proof car was hit by a bullet as it was driving in the city of Diyarbakir in the largely Kurdish...

The Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee this weekend announced that Moscow had approved the sale of Russian arms to the war-torn country. Notably, the move comes one month after the Iraqi government gave Russia the green light to target convoys sent into Iraqi territory from...

A Turkish Airlines flight traveling from New York to Istanbul has been diverted to the Canadian east coast city of Halifax due to a "bomb threat", authorities said. Police in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia said on Twitter that the flight TK2 landed safely at Halifax Stanfield...

At least 700 Palestinian children between the ages of 11 and 17 have been arrested by the Israeli army this year, with more than half still languishing in Israeli prisons. “The Israeli army has detained 700 Palestinian children and minors from the occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank...

Four people were wounded in a stabbing attack in the southern Israeli town of Kiryat Gat on Saturday in what police said bore the hallmarks of previous stabbings by Palestinians. The attack took place shortly after an announcement in Washington that U.S. Secretary of State John...

Turkish warplanes struck Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant targets in northern Iraq and southeast Turkey on Friday night, the latest raids in a military campaign against the rebel group. The Turkish army said it hit 23 PKK targets, including shelters and supply points,...

 (Agencies- The Daily Star)- ISIS has claimed an attack at a Shiite mosque south of the Iraqi capital that officials said killed at least ten people Friday. ISIS, in a statement, said a suicide bomber named as Abu Hussein al-Ansari carried out the attack inside the mosque, while security...

Turkish police have detained a Belgian man of Moroccan origin on suspicion that he scouted out the target sites for Islamic State in attacks that killed 129 people in Paris a week ago, the Dogan news agency said on Saturday. Ahmet Dahmani, 26, was detained at a luxury hotel in the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Syria’s Bashar al-Assad of supporting terrorism in the region. “The main culprit for today's humanitarian tragedies and acts of terrorism is the Assad regime, which has killed 380,000 of its people,” Erdogan said, adding: “Assad carries out...

ISIS is aggressively pursuing development of chemical weapons, setting up a branch dedicated to research and experiments with the help of scientists from Iraq, Syria and elsewhere in the region, according to Iraqi and U.S. intelligence officials. Their quest raises an alarming scenario for the...

Turkey Thursday handed over to Greece a man suspected of seeking to join Syria extremist, though not in relation to any attacks under investigation, a police source said. The suspect, a member of the Greek Muslim minority living in the northeastern town of Komotini, had been arrested in Turkey...

 Israel has arrested six 1948 Palestinians on suspicion of planning to travel to Syria to join ISIS in a case sparked by a man’s paraglider journey, police said Wednesday. All in their 20s and from Jaljulia north of Tel Aviv, the six were charged with “collaborating with hostile foreign...

Iran has started cutting back on some nuclear technology, which could be reengineered to make nuclear weapons, in line with a deal with six world powers, a U.N. nuclear agency report said Wednesday. However, diplomats familiar with the report cautioned that the country is keeping thousands of...