Turkish warplanes killed 51 ISIS militants in operations over the last 24 hours, the military said in a statement Thursday. Warplanes destroyed 85 ISIS targets in the areas of al-Bab, Tadif, Kabbasin and Bzagah, including buildings and vehicles. Turkey launched an operation,...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel visits Turkey Thursday for the first time since the failed July coup, seeking to keep a key partnership alive after a series of crises. Merkel is expected to meet both President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim during the hugely...

EU leaders meeting in Malta Friday will face the challenge of how to work with a chaotic Libya and reluctant sub-Saharan African countries to prevent a feared upsurge of migrant smuggling to Europe. Here is how the central Mediterranean smuggling route that runs mainly from Libya to Italy...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkey-backed Free Syrian Army on Wednesday took two villages from ISIS in the eastern countryside of Aleppo and its main stronghold of al-Bab, local reporter said. The capture of Abu al-Randain and al-Ghouz villages will halt regime advance west of ISIS-held town of al-Bab....