Germany, whose relations with Turkey have been strained by a series of rows, will decide within two weeks whether to withdraw troops deployed at Turkey's Incirlik air force base, a German Foreign Ministry official said on Sunday. Roughly 250 German troops are based at Incirlik to help in the...

Hundreds of Palestinian prisoners on Saturday ended a 40-day hunger strike over conditions in Israeli jails, the Israel Prison Service and a Palestinian official said. About 1,100 inmates had initially taken part in one of the largest such hunger strikes, which began on April 17. It raised...

( Middle East Eye )- As a child in Damascus, Maha al-Sayyed always looked forward to going to the hairdresser with her grandmother. The atmosphere, the smell of nail polish, and the voices of women socialising were addictive to Sayyed, who loved leaving the salon with a new look every time....

British Airways resumed some flights from Britain's two biggest airports on Sunday after a global computer system failure sowed chaos, grounding planes and leaving thousands of passengers queuing for hours. BA said it aimed to operate a near normal schedule of flights from Gatwick airport...