Nine more bodies have been recovered from the Mediterranean a day after a boat carrying hundreds of migrants capsized off the coast of Egypt, officials said on Thursday, bringing the death toll to 52. Police arrested four members of the boat's crew. Security sources said it had been loaded...

 The planned evacuation of several hundred Syrian rebels from their last foothold in the city of Homs began on Thursday, with around 120 fighters and their families scheduled to leave by bus, witnesses and state media said. The fighters, carrying their personal weapons, and their families...

A senior leader of Yemen's al Qaeda branch was killed on Thursday in a raid by a U.S. drone strike in central Yemen, an official of the exiled government of President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi said. The official said Abdallah al-Sanaani, a regional commander in Al Qaeda in Arabian Peninsula...

The chief public prosecutor’s office in Istanbul issued arrest warrants for around 100 members of the judiciary Thursday as part of a probe into the Fetullah Terrorist Organization, a police source told Anadolu Agency. Police teams had arrived at the Istanbul Anadolu Palace of Justice, a...