A resolution accepted unanimously by the U.N. Security Council for a 30-day ceasefire across Syria will not impact Turkey's offensive against Kurdish fighters in Afrin, Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said Sunday. The U.N. resolution on Saturday followed seven straight days of...

An Iraqi court has sentenced 16 Turkish women to death by hanging for joining Daesh (ISIS), a judiciary spokesman said Sunday. Iraq is conducting the trials of hundreds of foreign women who have been detained, with hundreds of their children, since August by Iraqi forces as Daesh...

A protest against the ongoing Syrian government offensive in the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta was held in front of the Russian Embassy in Beirut on Sunday.

Three members of a pro-government militia were injured in a suicide bombing in Iraq’s oil-rich Kirkuk province on Sunday, according to a local police officer.   A bomber blew himself up near a headquarters of the Shia Hashd al-Shaabi militia in central Kirkuk, Capt. Hamed...