Germany's foreign minister Sigmar Gabriel said Berlin and the rest of Europe should back the "democratically minded" majority of Turks who did not support President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a dramatic hardening of Germany's posture towards Ankara. His remarks, at a campaign event for his...

The next round of talks between Russia, Turkey and Iran on settling the Syrian civil conflict has been pushed back from late August to mid-September, Kazakh Foreign Minister Kairat Abdrakhmanov said Tuesday. Kazakhstan hosts the talks which have in the past few months focused on establishing...

Expelled from their main stronghold in northern Iraq, Daesh (ISIS) militants are now trapped in a military vise that will squeeze them on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. Mattis arrived in the Iraqi capital on an unannounced visit Tuesday just...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Jihadist fighters blamed Ahmad Wahid al-Abd, the Islamic State jurist and the head of a group of Islamic State fighters who recently surrendered himself to the Hezbollah militia, for losing rebel strongholds at the Syrian-Lebanese border.  In an exclusive...