Turkey's defense minister told Pentagon officials there must not be a vacuum of power during the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Syria, state-owned Anadolu news agency reported Saturday. A senior U.S. administration official said on Friday Washington would leave about 400 U.S. troops...

An Iraqi security official says five fishermen have been killed in an attack by Daesh (ISIS) militants on a camp site near the Therthar lake, 100 kilometers northwest of Baghdad. Naim Kaoud, head of the Anbar province security council, says the militants attacked the fishermen's site in...

One soldier was killed and 20 others were injured in a Boko Haram rocket attack in northeast Nigeria, security sources said on Saturday, just hours before elections began. A civilian militia source in the Borno state capital, Maiduguri, told AFP "at least 13" blasts were heard...

  (Eqtsad)- The United Arab Emirates has agreed with pro-Bashar al-Assad businessmen to pump $ 2 billion in Syria, including the finance of wheat shipments, fuel and foodstuffs, on the condition of combatting Turkish influence not Iran, a well-informed source told Eqtsad. Abu Dhabi...