A defiant President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday stepped up his attack on the European Union, saying Turkey had to go its own way and vowing to bring back the death penalty if parliament passes it. Erdogan, who was at the opening ceremony for a memorial dedicated to the roughly 250 people who...

Iranian media have hailed trailblazing Iran-born mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani following her death from cancer, with her image blazoned across newspaper front pages on Sunday. In some cases newspapers even broke with tradition and portrayed Mirzakhani without her hair covered by a hijab --...

(Zaman al-Wasl) Al-Raqqah once deeply connected to the name al-Rashid for centuries, is now only known as ‘the capital of the Islamic State’.  For this privilege alone, the city and all its civilians, according to the Islamic State, must pay the heavy price of death and displacement...

At least 10 people have been killed by air strikes in the opposition-held Damascus suburb of Ein Tarma, according to a UK-based monitor. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) said at least two children were among those killed in the air strikes on Friday. The assault...