A Palestinian military court slapped a military officer Wednesday with a one-year jail term for criticizing Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ participation at the funeral of former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres last month, according to the officer's lawyer. "Lieutenant-Colonel...

Five young men were executed by Daesh militants in the Daesh-held city of Mosul in Iraq’s northern Nineveh province for alleged collaboration with Iraqi security forces, an army source told Anadolu Agency on Wednesday. "Daesh militants beheaded five young men in front of a crowd of people...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday accused France of deliberately luring Moscow into vetoing a United Nations resolution on Syria and suggested Paris was doing the bidding of the United States. Russia last week imposed its veto on a French-backed resolution condemning the violence...

Fifteen people were killed Wednesday when Russian warplanes struck opposition-held parts of Syria’s northwestern city of Aleppo, according to a local civil defense official. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Beibars Meshaal, a pro-opposition civil defense official based in the city, said that...