A U.S. military satellite detected a heat flash over the Sinai at the time a Russian airliner crashed, killing all 224 people aboard, U.S. media reported. The Airbus A321 plunged to the ground Saturday 23 minutes after taking off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm-el-Sheikh on a flight to St...
Iranian authorities have arrested an American-Lebanese man who they was linked to the U.S. military and intelligence agencies, state broadcaster IRIB said on Tuesday. It named the man as Nizar Zakka, an IT expert who Lebanese media reported last week had disappeared on Sept. 18...
As they digest the resounding victory of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's party in Turkey's general election, residents of the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir say they want only one thing from the new government: peace. A tentative peace had prevailed for two years, after peace talks...
A jubilant President Tayyip Erdogan on Monday cast the return of Turkey to single-party rule as a vote for stability that the world must respect, but opponents fear it heralds growing authoritarianism and deeper polarisation. The AK Party, whose roots are in political Islam,...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM: A Palestinian stabbed and wounded three Israelis near Tel Aviv Monday before being arrested, police said, the latest in a series of such attacks. The 19-year-old, from Hebron in the occupied West Bank, stabbed two people on the pavement and a third in a clothes store, a...
The first bodies from a plane crash in Egypt in which all 224 passengers, most of them Russians, died over the weekend arrived in St Petersburg early on Monday morning aboard a Russian government plane. The crashed Airbus A321 plane, operated by Russian airline Kogalymavia, was carrying...
(AFP)- A Palestinian attempted to stab an Israeli soldier at a border crossing in the northern West Bank on Monday and was shot dead by the army, Israeli police said. A second Palestinian, allegedly an accomplice, was arrested, according to police.
A Russian airliner that crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula broke up in mid-air, an official of a Moscow-based aviation agency said on Sunday after visiting the disaster site, but stressed it was too early to draw conclusions from this. Russian authorities also ordered...
The Justice and Development (AK) Party clinched victory after securing over 50 percent of votes in Turkey’s 26th general election Sunday, according to preliminary results based on 81.37 percent of counted votes. Electoral committees across the country’s 81 provinces, divided into 85...
Leaders of top political parties in Turkey have cast their votes in the country's 26th general election. Turkish Prime Minister and Justice and Development (AK) Party leader Ahmet Davutoglu voted in his hometown in central Anatolian Konya province Sunday. “We go to polls to do our...
Lebanon’s army on Saturday fired at a vehicle carrying Islamist militants, killing three of them and wounding two others in the north of the country near the Syrian border, a security source said. The source said it was unclear which group the militants belonged to. They were driving near the...
An Egyptian television station suspended a female presenter's programme on Friday following online outrage after she shamed and allegedly stole personal pictures from a sexual harassment victim on her show. Stressing its "respect for all women and girls", the privately owned Al-Nahar channel...
A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers crashed into a mountainous area of Egypt's Sinai peninsula on Saturday shortly after losing radar contact near cruising altitude, killing all aboard. A militant group affiliated to Islamic State in Egypt, Sinai Province, said in a...
Israeli security forces shot and killed a Palestinian who ran at them with a knife in the occupied West Bank on Saturday, police said, as a month-long wave of violence showed no signs of abating. An Israeli police spokeswoman said that at a checkpoint in the northern West Bank a...
Cairo (AFP) - A Russian passenger plane carrying 224 people crashed on Saturday in Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula, Egyptian officials said. A "Russian civilian plane... crashed in the central Sinai," the office of Prime Minister Sharif Ismail said in a statement. A cabinet statement said...
(AFP) - A Palestinian baby boy died Friday after choking on tear gas fired by Israeli forces, Palestinian officials said, as new knife attacks and clashes shook Jerusalem and the West Bank. Eight-month-old Ramadan Thawabteh was the latest victim of violence that erupted a month...
Paris (AFP) - More than 50 international media organisations have written to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressing deep concern about worsening conditions for journalists ahead of elections on Sunday. Agence France-Presse is among the signatories, which also include The New...
A draft U.N. resolution aimed at reviving Israeli-Palestinian peace talks calls for a freeze on Jewish settlements and halting moves to prosecute Israel at the International Criminal Court. The text drafted by New Zealand has been circulated to the 15 Security Council members, as well as Israel...
Alex Whiting, Thomson Reuters Foundation- Nearly 100,000 refugees in Gaza face a second winter without proper housing, with just one of their homes rebuilt since being damaged or destroyed in conflict last year, said a United Nations agency that provides assistance in the region. Families are...
The United States urged the Iraqi government to increase security at a camp near Baghdad airport holding Iranian dissidents after an attack on the facility on Thursday, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement. Kerry also called on Iraqi officials to find those...
