ANKARA, Turkey --  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused opposition parties  of stoking xenophobia and racism  on Monday, a day after residents in a neighborhood in central Turkey set Syrian-owned shops on fire. The rioting erupted in the Melikgazi region of central...

Islamic State  fighters have killed nearly 4,100 people in  Syria  since 2019 when the jihadists lost their last stronghold in the country, a war monitor said on June 29. IS overran large swathes of Syria and Iraq in 2014, proclaiming a so-called caliphate and...

Hamas condemned on Friday an Israeli move to legalize new settlement outposts and units in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian resistance group denounced the announcement as "a practical declaration by the fascist occupation government to proceed with extremist (Finance Minister Bezalel)...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday he did not rule out a possible meeting with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to help restore bilateral relations between the neighbours. Turkey severed ties with Syria after the 2011 Syrian civil war and supported rebels looking to oust Assad. It...