Turkey has summoned Russia's ambassador to Ankara over the recent bombing of Turkmen villages in Syria, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Friday. Syrian regime forces backed by Russian air forces launched a ground offensive on the predominantly Turkmen villages in Bayir Bucak area in...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Clashes have renewed in the northern province of Hasaka between Islamic State and Kurdish PYD forces, media activists said on Friday, reporting death of 8 militants from both sides.  Hasaka Media Center said PYD fighters backed by U.S.-led air...

Malian special forces stormed a luxury hotel in Bamako on Friday after Islamist gunmen took 170 people including many foreigners hostage in the capital of the former French colony, which has been battling rebels allied to al Qaeda for several years. "They've penetrated inside the hotel....

(Today Zaman)- Turkey's top diplomat has sought to find a way to overcome the difference between Turkey and the US on the two sides' views of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed wing the People's Protection Units (YPG) in the fight against the terrorist Islamic State in...