Turkey began freeing 38,000 prisoners on Wednesday, after announcing a penal reform that will make space for tens of thousands of suspects rounded up over last month's attempted coup. The reform was one of a series of measures outlined on Wednesday in two decrees under a state of emergency...

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere on Wednesday defended a leaked government report alleging Turkey was a hub for Islamist groups, a charge that has further strained tensions with Ankara, a key partner in efforts to stem mass migration. Turkey and Germany have had a series of disputes...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Rebel shelling in Syria's battered northern city of Aleppo killed 12 people including a child Wednesday, state media said. State television announced "12 martyrs including a child and several wounded after terrorists shelled the Salaheddin" district in the city's...

Reporting by Abdul Hafiz al-Holani (Zaman al-Wasl) “The evil of a country where one has no friend, and evil is a human gaining what deafens” with this famous line of poetry for his beloved al-Mutanabbi, the refugee Mohammad Ismail Rahma begins explaining how he feels now as he prepares his...