President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Saturday as saying Turkey would never allow the formation of a Kurdish state embracing its south-east and parts of northern Syria, comments likely to anger Kurds as a peace process with Ankara stalls. Turkey has looked askance as Syrian Kurds have made...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A secret telegraph issued by the Saudi intelligence revealed that a son of a prominent commander in Hezbollah had got involved in selling arms to officers defected from the Syrian regime. The document was published by WikiLeaks among thousands of Saudi...

Syrian Kurdish fighters said they had fully secured the town of Kobani near the Turkish border on Saturday and killed more than 60 Islamic State militants, two days after the hardline group launched an incursion with suicide bombers. Further east, Islamic State pressed another assault on...

Tour companies were evacuating thousands of foreign holidaymakers from Tunisia on Saturday, a day after a gunman killed 39 people as they lounged at the beach in an attack claimed by Islamic State. Tunisia's Prime Minister Habib Essid said most of the dead were British, and its health...