China and the United States will improve cooperation on fighting militancy, including intelligence exchanges, and work together to bring peace to Afghanistan, China's foreign ministry said after a leaders' summit in Washington. China says it faces a serious threat from Islamist militants...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Friday that ties with the United States had improved, although there was "still a long road to travel" before the two estranged nations could have normal relations. "The situation has certainly changed," Rouhani, in New York for the United...
Two Turkish soldiers and 34 Kurdish rebels have been killed in fighting in the southeast, where scores of people have died since the July breakdown of a ceasefire, the army said Friday. The soldiers were killed in two separate attacks by the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) near...
U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin will meet in New York next week at a time of high tension in Europe and the Middle East, but the Kremlin and the White House disagreed on Thursday over the top priority for the talks. The White House insisted the meeting would...
The Iraqi army's failure to recapture the country's largest oil refinery from Islamic State after 15 months of fighting is calling into question the government's plans to retake the northern city of Mosul from the jihadists. Iraq's military has been trying to build momentum at the Baiji...
Israel will impose a minimum four-year jail term on Palestinian petrol bombers and rock throwers and will ease open-fire regulations and impose harsher fines, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Thursday. The Israeli leader's "Security Cabinet" of senior ministers agreed measures...
Turkey's Prime Minister will tell world leaders next week Ankara can play a key role in stopping a spread of terrorism, including Islamic State, but expected understanding for its own battle against Kurdish militants. Washington, while considering the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) a...
The head of Iran's hajj organization blames Saudi "mismanagement" for a crush of pilgrims outside Mecca that killed hundreds of people, including 21 Iranian pilgrims. Saeed Ohadi told state TV by phone from Saudi Arabia that the incident might have been caused by the closure of a road. State...
Two ministers from Turkey's pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) resigned from the interim government on Tuesday in a sign of rising tensions with the ruling AK Party after the collapse of a truce between Kurdish fighters and the military. President Tayyip Erdogan has stepped up...
An Egypt-based affiliate of ISIS has claimed responsibility for a bomb attack in the capital, Cairo, which wounded two people. The claim was reported late Sunday by SITE Intelligence Group, a U.S.-based group that monitors militant websites. The explosion happened near a building...
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered daily water tests and other measures on Saturday to contain an outbreak of cholera that has killed at least six people in Baghdad's western outskirts. The deaths were in the town of Abu Ghraib, about 25 km (15 miles) west of the capital, hospital...
At least 55 Kurdish militants were killed when Turkish warplanes pounded camps belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq overnight, security sources said on Saturday. The jets took off from a base in Diyarbakir, in Turkey's southeast, and later returned without damage,...
Any Iranian bank receiving sanctions relief under a nuclear deal signed in July between Iran and six world powers would see sanctions re-imposed if it were found to be supporting Hezbollah or Iran's Qods Force, a U.S. Treasury official said on Thursday. U.S. Treasury Department's...
At least 12 people were killed when three bombs went off in mainly Shi'ite neighborhoods in central Baghdad on Thursday, security and medical sources said. Two suicide bomb attacks in the central commercial district of Bab al-Shargi killed at least eight people and wounded 18 others. A third...
(Reuters)- The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic state has little to show for itself, a year after its establishment. "A legitimate question arises - what results have we got from sending into the region military forces of...
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters)- Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants killed three Turkish police officers overnight in a bomb attack on their armored vehicle as they traveled along a highway in southeast Turkey, security sources said Wednesday. Another officer was seriously wounded in the...
Israeli police armed with stun grenades and tear gas clashed with rock-throwing Palestinian youths who barricaded themselves inside Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque on Tuesday, police and witnesses said, in the third day of violence at the sacred site. Masked Palestinians hurled flares at the...
Iran wants China's help to resolve tensions and unrest in the Middle East and is ready to play host to more Chinese firms once sanctions against it are lifted, Iran's foreign minister said on Tuesday China and Iran have close diplomatic, economic, trade and energy ties, and...
Thirteen Turkish soldiers were wounded when their convoy was hit by a roadside bomb explosion in the largely Kurdish eastern province of Mus, security sources said on Tuesday. Turkey has been hit by waves of daily violence between Kurdish militants and security forces, with much...
Around 200 protesters gathered near Beirut’s international airport Monday to warn the Lebanese government over allowing the body of the head of Israel's former proxy militia in south Lebanon to be buried in the country.
