Turkey's eleventh President Abdullah Gul on Friday denied a story published by the Iranian Press TV, an English-language television network, on its news website. Gul called the remarks attributed to him in the article "fallacious" and "unreal." ...

Islamic State has consolidated its grip on oil supplies in Iraq and now presides over a sophisticated smuggling empire with illegal exports going to Turkey , Jordan and Iran, according to smugglers and Iraqi officials. Six months after it grabbed vast swaths of territory, the...

(The Huffington Post)- The Islamic State group released a new video on Friday in which British hostage John Cantlie reveals that he believes he too will soon be executed like his former cellmates. Cantlie opens the video with an introduction of himself as the British citizen...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Fighters of Syria’s al-Qaeda wing al-Nusra Front attacked on Friday two checkpoints belong to Hezbollah militia on the Lebanese border, leaving number of the Shi'ite militants killed and wounded, according to statement posted...