A new Egyptian militant group, the Hasam Movement, on Saturday claimed responsibility for the killing of a policeman in the country's north. Gunmen shot Gamal al-Deeb, a policeman working with the Homeland Security agency, eight times outside his home in the northern Beheira province shortly...

Before war broke out they were bakers, decorators or students. Now Syria's volunteer rescuers known as the White Helmets risk their lives trying to pull victims from the rubble. Footage of the daring, often heart-rending rescues carried out by the group's nearly 3,000 volunteers has...

The Middle East can return to being a “land of culture, civilization, peace and prosperity” through strong leadership, consensus and a “new social imagination”, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Saturday. In his regular column for the English-language Daily Sabah newspaper,...

An Iraqi army division has been deployed to the Al-Ratba district near the Syrian border in the western Anbar province to fight the Daesh terrorist group, Iraq’s Defense Ministry announced Friday evening. Iraqi state television broadcast footage showing hundreds of military vehicles and...