Iran will not open talks with the United States that will only benefit Donald Trump, supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Friday, insisting the US president's sanctions policy had failed. Decades-old tensions between Tehran and Washington have soared in the past year, with the sworn...

Turkish intelligence has freed two Syrian army officers after three weeks of being arrested in the southern Hatay province, rebel sources told Zaman al-Wasl Friday. Lieutenant Colonel Mohamed Hamado and Captain Khaled Rahhal were arrested in Antakya city, the capital of Hatay. At the...

Israeli security officials announced Thursday they have caught a Hamas militant who fled the Gaza Strip and swam into Israeli waters, confirming weeks of rumors that a Hamas figure had "defected" to Israel. Israel's Shin Bet security agency said that Izz el-Din Hussein, 24, fled Gaza on...

Egypt has sent nearly 150 soldiers to Syria to fight in the ranks of the Assad regime, according to military sources. Reliable military sources told Anadolu Agency that the soldiers had been sent to Aleppo countryside, Idlib area in coordination with Iranian Revolutionary Guards via Hama...