Clashes between Kurdish and Shi'ite Turkmen paramilitary forces broke out late on Saturday in northern Iraq, killing at least eight people and cutting a strategic road between Baghdad and the oil city of Kirkuk, security and medical sources said. Violence in Tuz Khurmatu, about 175 km (110...

 German Chancellor Angela Merkel visited a refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border Saturday, kicking off a high-stakes visit aimed at boosting a month-old migrant deal plagued by moral and legal concerns. Merkel, joined by European Council head Donald Tusk and European Commission Vice...

  (Zaman Al Wasl- AFP)- Activists have accused Iran of standing behind the fire that broke out in the Asruniyeh market of the Old City of Damascus, a UNESCO world heritage site. The market is adjacent to the famed Al-Hamidiyeh bazaar in one of the world's oldest cities. "It began at 06:00...

Two rockets fired across the border from Syria killed two people and injured four others on Friday in Turkey’s southeastern border province of Kilis. Reporting from the scene, an Anadolu Agency correspondent said that one of the rockets landed in an empty field behind the Kilis courthouse...