More than 10,500 state employees have been dismissed over suspected links with the Kurdish PKK militant group, Turkish Labour Minister Mehmet Muezzinoglu said on Thursday in an interview with broadcaster CNN Turk. Turkey is fighting an insurgency by the PKK in the largely Kurdish southeast...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Furat University Administration in Hasaka city said Wednesday it will resume work in its faculties in the city after reaching an agreement with Kurdish Asayish and YPG militias. The aim of the agreement is to neutralize faculties from any fights between them and regime...

ISIS militants returning from Syria could carry out mustard gas attacks after learning how to use the toxic substance in battle zones, a senior official from the global chemical weapons watchdog warned on Wednesday. An inquiry by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of...

Syrian pro-government forces have pushed deeper into rebel-held eastern Aleppo, forcing civilians to flee to southern neighbourhoods to escape the onslaught as the regime pressed an assault to recapture the entire city. Recapturing east Aleppo would be the government's biggest victory yet in...