KRUEN, Germany: U.S. President Barack said on Monday he was confident ISIS militants would be driven out of Iraq and defeated but there would be setbacks along the way. In a meeting with Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi at the G7 summit in Germany, Obama said the militants' success in Ramadi...
The second hearing in the trial of jailed Washington Post correspondent Jason Rezaian on espionage charges took place behind closed doors in Tehran on Monday, Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency reported. The first hearing of Iranian-U.S. citizen Rezaian also had been held behind closed...
Iranian authorities detained a former vice-president on Monday on undeclared charges, local news agencies reported, months after another deputy to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sentenced in a graft scandal. "Former vice-president Hamid Baghaei had a charge sheet issued against him by the judiciary...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's hopes of assuming greater powers suffered a serious blow on Sunday when the ruling AK Party failed to win an outright majority in a parliamentary election, preliminary results showed. With 97 percent of ballots counted, the AKP had taken...
A military base was targeted by mortar fire in southeast Turkey on Saturday, the general staff said in a statement Sunday. There were no casualties. The statement said terrorists attacked the Daglica base close to the Iraqi border in Hakkari province at around 12.35 p.m. local time (1035GMT)...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has cast his vote as high-profile figures join millions of Turkish citizens going to the polls in the country’s 25th general election. Speaking to the press in Istanbul after voting, Erdogan said that the turnout of Sunday's election appeared to...
Israeli aircraft struck the northern Gaza Strip on Sunday in response to a rocket fired from the Hamas-controlled territory that hit southern Israel, the Israeli military said. The militant rocket landed in open ground and caused no damage or injuries, the army said. No casualties were...
An Egyptian appeals court on Saturday canceled a ruling to list the Palestinian group Hamas as a terrorist organization, judicial sources said, signaling a possible easing of pressure on the Gaza Strip's ruling faction. Hamas welcomed the decision by Egypt, which faces an islamist insurgency...
Tareq Aziz, who served as the voice of Saddam Hussein's government, died in Iraqi hospital Friday aged 79 after years of poor health as a convicted prisoner, a doctor said. "Tareq Aziz arrived at the Hussein Teaching Hospital at 3 pm," Dr Saadi al-Majed, the head of the health department in...
An explosion apparently caused by an electrical fault injured several people at an opposition party rally in Turkey's mainly Kurdish city of Diyarbakir on Friday, days before parliamentary elections. Television footage showed people being carried out on stretchers as organizers of the rally...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei called Thursday for unity in the Muslim world in order to counter “oppression” from the West, on the anniversary of his predecessor’s death. In a speech marking 26 years since the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic...
An Egyptian court postponed on Tuesday issuing a final ruling over a death sentence recommendation for former Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and other top Muslim Brotherhood leaders in a case related to a 2011 mass jail break. The judge said the case was postponed to June 16. The court...
An Egyptian security official says authorities arrested two top leaders of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood - once the country's most influential political group - after two years on the run. The official says Abdel-Rahman al-Bar, the group's top religious cleric, and Mahmoud Ghozlan, the...
Turkey has lost control of its borders by opening them to Syrian refugees and been isolated on the world stage by meddling in the affairs of its neighbors, its main opposition leader said in an interview. Kemal Kilicdaroglu, head of the secularist Republican People's Party (CHP), said Turkey's...
Islamic State militants drove a tank rigged with explosives into a base south of the Iraqi city of Samarra on Monday, killing 38 policemen, military and police sources said. A further 46 people were wounded in the attack on the Muthanna bases in an area from which security forces and Shi'ite...
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan has vowed to punish the editor of a newspaper which published video footage it said showed the MIT state intelligence agency helping send weapons to Syria. The Cumhuriyet newspaper published footage on its website on Friday which it said showed gendarmerie...
The leader of France's far right National Front party said on Sunday that a visit to Egypt to meet with the country's religious and political leaders had no effect on her views on Arab and Muslim immigration to France. Since taking over from her father and becoming head of the National Front,...
The anti-ISIS coalition will meet in Paris Tuesday after a series of shock battlefield gains by the jihadis, with Iraq under pressure to step up its fight by being more inclusive of the Sunni minority. The main focus of the meeting will be the crisis in Iraq, where ISIS seized the city of Ramadi...
In his battle against militant Islam, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi is relying not just on bomber planes and soldiers but on white-turbaned clerics from Al-Azhar, Egypt's 1,000-year-old center for Islamic learning. He wants clerics to counter radicalism in the classroom....
Six world powers have agreed on a way to restore U.N. sanctions on Iran if the country breaks the terms of a future nuclear deal, clearing a major obstacle to an accord ahead of a June 30 deadline, Western officials told Reuters. The new understanding on a U.N. sanctions...
