SULAIMANIYA, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdistan’s veteran leader Masoud Barzani will not extend his presidential term beyond Nov. 1, a Kurdish government official said on Saturday. His decision came just weeks after a referendum on Kurdish independence backfired and triggered a crisis...

Somali security forces have ended a night-long siege by at a Mogadishu hotel by five extremist attackers who stormed the building after a suicide car bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle at the entrance gate Saturday afternoon. The attack killed 23 people. Troops regained...

Turkey arrested 49 alleged members of Daesh (ISIS) Saturday, some of whom were suspected of planning an attack on Turkey's national holiday Sunday, the state-run Anadolu news agency reported. The arrests in the capital Ankara came a day before celebrations across the country for the...

US President Donald Trump offered to host a meeting to end an ongoing diplomatic crisis in the Gulf but the Saudi-led bloc boycotting Qatar refused to take part, Qatar's emir has said. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani made the comments on proposed Camp David-like meet in an interview...