Turkey called on Tuesday for Russia’s airstrikes on civilians and hospitals in Syria to be debated at the UN Security Council. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus also called on Russia and the U.S. - both permanent members of the council - to show their support for peace by enforced a...

A local U.N. staffer in Iraq was killed after he was abducted from the eastern province of Diyala last April, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Amer al-Kaissy, the Diyala representative for the U.N. mission, was found dead in November near the city of Baquba with a gunshot wound suggesting...

Top oil exporters Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed on Tuesday to freeze output levels but said the deal was contingent on other producers joining in - a major sticking point with Iran absent from the talks and determined to raise production. The Saudi, Russian, Qatari and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 28 people have killed and dozens wounded in Russian airstrikes on an ISIS-held town in the northeastern province of Hasakah as regime army and Kurdish militants launch joint attack on the strategic town. The deadly Russian air strikes have targeted the main bakery of...