WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release of US State Department cables in 2010, AP reported.  WikiLeaks said in a statement that it has already...

Islamic State said on Thursday it had shot down an Iraqi fighter plane north of the city of Ramadi in Anbar Province. It was not immediately possible to confirm the claim made on one of Islamic State's Twitter accounts. A member of an anti-Islamic State Sunni force called Sahwa (Awakening) said...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has offered his condolences over the death of former Turkish president Suleyman Demirel. In a letter of condolence issued by the Turkish Presidency on Wednesday, Erdogan said that he learnt with sorrow about the death of Turkey’s ninth president....

 The Justice and Development (AK) Party is ready to do everything to form a coalition government, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Wednesday. "We are ready to do all we can to establish a coalition government. We have never threatened with early elections to force other parties...

Turkey's prime minister said on Tuesday he would not tolerate any attempt to undermine President Tayyip Erdogan's authority during the AK Party's talks to form a coalition government. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has said his ruling AK Party, which lost its overall majority for the first time...

An Egyptian court sentenced former President Mohamed Mursi to a life sentence of 25 years in prison on Tuesday in a case related to conspiring with foreign groups. The general guide of the Muslim Brotherhood Mohamed Badie was also sentenced to 25 years in jail in the same case. In total, 17...

U.S. and coalition forces launched 16 air strikes targeting Islamic State militants in nine Iraqi cities on Sunday, the U.S. military said. The Iraqi strikes destroyed Islamic State vehicles, buildings, tunnel systems, bunkers and weaponry near cities including Makhmur, Mosul, Ramadi, Sinjar...

Iran's deputy foreign minister for Middle East affairs will discuss Yemen's conflict at a meeting of a pan-Islamic body in Saudi Arabia, the Iranian Mehr news agency reported on Monday. Hossein Amir Abdollahian will join other officials from the Islamic world at a one-day extraordinary...

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African judge on Sunday ordered authorities to prevent Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir, who is in South Africa for an African Union summit, from leaving the country because of an international order for his arrest, human rights activists said. Al-Bashir appeared...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said a snap election would be "inevitable" if both the ruling AK Party and the main opposition fail in efforts to form a new government within the constitutional limit of 45 days. In comments published on Sunday in Milliyet newspaper, Erdogan said he planned to...

Officials say two separate road accidents in Egypt Sunday have killed 23 Egyptians and injured 17 others. Husam Gamil, director of emergency services for the Red Sea governorate, says one accident occurred when a passenger bus flipped over near the resort city of Hurghada, killing 11 people and...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday a comprehensive nuclear deal could be delayed if world powers brought new issues into play, and he would not accept a U.N. inspections regime that jeopardized state secrets. Iran is aiming to strike an accord with six powers by...

Egypt opened the Rafah border crossing on Saturday to allow Palestinians to travel in and out of the Gaza Strip for the first time in three months, in a possible sign of easing tension between Cairo and Gaza's dominant Islamist Hamas movement. Gaza, a small impoverished coastal enclave, is...

Iran expressed concern on Friday over cyber-security of nuclear talks with six world powers after reported cyber-attacks on venues linked to the negotiations on its disputed nuclear program, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Russian computer security company Kaspersky Lab said on...

President Barack Obama has said American forces being sent to a new operations center in the heart of the war against Islamic State will not engage in combat, but they will do almost everything but fight to support the beleaguered Iraqi forces. U.S. defense officials say the tasks of the troops...

An Iraqi official says the body of Tareq Aziz, Saddam Hussein's former top aide who died last week in prison, is still at Baghdad International Airport under heavy security and due to be flown to Amman. The official from the Iraqi Aviation Authority said Friday that the body was supposed to be...

An Egyptian court Thursday sentenced a policeman to 15 years in jail over the fatal shooting of a woman during a peaceful leftist rally, a court official said. Shaima al-Sabbagh, a 34-year-old mother of a five-year-old, was struck by birdshot in January as police dispersed a small march on the...

Hezbollah’s Loyalty to Resistance Bloc blamed the Future Movement Thursday for the deterioration of Lebanon’s state institutions. “The control, confiscation and monopolization approach the Future Movement has been practicing in government and administration over the last years, in contradiction...

LUXOR, Egypt (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up on Wednesday just steps away from the ancient Egyptian temple of Karnak in Luxor, a southern city visited by millions of tourists every year, security and health officials said. Shortly after the explosion, police exchanged fire with and...

A string of bombings targeting Turkey's pro-Kurdish party during its campaign to enter parliament has been linked with Islamic State in Syria, the party's chairman said on Monday. Three people were killed in two blasts on Friday in the mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir in southeast Turkey,...