(Reuters) - Turks voted in their country's first presidential election on Sunday with Tayyip Erdogan poised to win and fulfill his dream of what he calls a "new Turkey " and what his opponents say will be an increasingly authoritarian nation. A victory for Erdogan would seal...

RIYADH (Reuters) - An airplane carrying 40 passengers crashed in a residential area after taking off from Tehran's Mehrabad airport on Sunday morning, Iran's official IRNA news agency reported, citing a spokesman for the Iranian Red Crescent Society and its own reporter....

After a long period of relative calm, Syria's capital is coming under daily mortar and rocket fire from rebels seeking to make the regime ease its attacks on areas they hold near Damascus. "It is in response to regime air raids on rebel districts around Damascus," said Rami...

(Reuters) - Kurdish forces attacked Islamic State fighters near the Kurdish regional capital of Arbil in northern Iraq on Wednesday in a change of tactics supported by the Iraqi central government to try to break the Islamists' momentum. The attack 40 km (25 miles) southwest of...