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...

Syrian regime air raids on northern countryside of Home killed at least 18 people, including 4 children, activists and monitoring group said Sunday. Local activists and the Syrian Network for Human Rights said regime helicopters had dropped three barrel-bomb on a crowded neighborhood in...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented, during the month of May 2015, 45 massacres at least as follows: A. Government forces: 38 massacres B. Daesh: three massacres C. Armed opposition factions: three massacres D. International Coalition forces: one massacre The regional...

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)...