The “solution process” to end Turkey's 40-year conflict with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) is advancing positively and no one will be able to disturb this process, the country’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said. Addressing Turkish businessmen on Friday...

(Reuters) - A Palestinian man threw a chemical substance believed to be acid at an Israeli family in the occupied West Bank on Friday, injuring a man and four children, Israeli police and the military said. The assailant was shot and wounded immediately after the attack, which...

The Iraqi Ministry of Defense announced that it has retaken two regions in the north and west of  Iraq on Friday. The areas which were controlled by ISIL only a few days ago are now liberated, with around 135 ISIL militants being killed during...

(Reuters) - Iraq is seeking to postpone a final $4.6 billion installment of reparations for its 1990-91 occupation of Kuwait, Finance Minister Hoshiyar Zebari told Reuters, as it faces a cash crisis caused by falling oil prices and war with Islamic State. Since Iraq was...

In the summer of 2004, a young jihadist in shackles and chains was walked by his captors slowly into the Camp Bucca prison in southern Iraq. He was nervous as two American soldiers led him through three brightly-lit buildings and then a maze of wire corridors, into an open yard,...

(Anadolu News Agency)- A Senate committee on Thursday approved new authorizations for the fight against ISIL in Iraq and Syria. The Authorization for the Use of Military Force passed the Foreign Relations Committee by a 10-to-8 vote with no Republicans voting for...

 (Anadolu News Agency)-  ISIL launched a counter-attack on Thursday, resulting in it controlling two areas in the western Iraqi province of Anbar.  The areas are close to Baghdadi town, located around 13 miles west of Hit city in Anbar governorate....

French Senate has adopted a resolution calling on the government to recognize the state of Palestine. The draft resolution submitted by the Greens parliamentary group was adopted by 154 votes in favor to 146 votes against on Thursday. Although the...

Senior Palestinian official Ziad Abu Ein was laid to rest on Thursday at a military funeral in Ramallah, one day after his death during the dispersal by Israeli troops of an anti-settlement protest in the West Bank. Thousands of mourners took part in the funeral, which...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Britain and Turkey will share more information on foreign fighters among the ranks of Islamic State (IS) in Syria and Iraq to try to prevent them posing a threat when they return home, Prime Minister David Cameron said on Tuesday....

A joint command has been established with more than 30 countries to combat and defeat militants who have seized large portions of Iraq and Syria, the U.S. announced Monday.  U.S. Central Command established the Combined Joint Task Force - Operation Inherent...

 Lebanon's military prosecutor on Tuesday charged an ex-wife of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group's top leader, with terrorism, a judicial source has said. "The military prosecutor has charged Saja al-Dulaimi and her...

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel made a surprise visit to the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, on Tuesday. The aim of Hagel’s visit was to discuss military operations against ISIL in Iraq, a source from the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs told the Anadolu Agency....

Palestinian resistance group Hamas on Tuesday hailed a report by an international rights watchdog accusing Israel of committing war crimes during its recent offensive on the Gaza Strip. "The report included clear indications that Israel had committed war crimes in Gaza,"...

The killing of three soldiers on border duty in the southeastern province of Sanliurfa was not due to a terrorist attack, Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Tuesday.  "It is apparent that it is a case of mental breakdown. Whatever it is, those who...

(Reuters) - Israel's parliament voted on Monday to dissolve itself in preparation for an early general election on March 17, after a crisis set in motion by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's dismissal of two ministers. The parliament's vote of 93 to 0 formalized a decision to...

BEIRUT, Dec 8 (Reuters) - A bomb went off in the Lebanese town of Arsal near the border with Syria on Monday, damaging a car, a Lebanese security official said. Lebanese television stations reported that one man had been wounded by the bomb. Lebanese TV...

The Iraqi government has put together an armed force of 10,000 people to retake the province of Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, the head of Mosul's provincial council said on Sunday. "The government has prepared its 'Freeing...

(Reuters) - Iranian President Hassan Rouhani will hike military spending by more than a third in the next fiscal year despite presenting a “cautious, tight” budget to parliament on Sunday in response to falling oil prices and punishing sanctions arising from the country’s disputed...

(Reuters) - The European Union will press Turkey to cooperate more closely in the fight against Islamic State and urge it not to undermine EU sanctions on Russia on a visit this week intended to give new impetus to often fraught EU-Turkish relations. EU foreign policy chief...