President Vladimir Putin signed a decree imposing a raft of punitive economic sanctions against Turkey on Saturday, underlining the depth of the Kremlin's anger toward Ankara four days after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane. The decree, which entered into force immediately,...

Israeli border police shot dead a Palestinian who stabbed an officer in Jerusalem on Sunday, a police spokesman said, the latest attack in a two-month wave of violence. Near a main gate of Jerusalem's walled Old City, the Palestinian pulled out a knife and stabbed a border...

Moroccan director Mohammed Mouftakir's "L'Orchestre des Aveugles" (The Blind Orchestra) took the Tanit d'Or Saturday at the Carthage Film Festival, blighted earlier in the week by a suicide bombing in the Tunisian capital. The Tanit d'Argent was awarded to "The Endless River", by South...

“Even if no one remains, we will be there to defend our land,” says 30-year-old Turkmen Tahsin Kosar, determinedly – “It is our motherland; we cannot leave it.” Kosar is just one of many Syrian Turkmen who have fled to the Turkish border district of Yayladagi in Hatay from...