Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday rebuked German Chancellor Angela Merkel for using the expression "Islamist terrorism", saying the phrase was not correct and saddened Muslims. Speaking after a critical bilateral meeting with Erdogan, Merkel spoke of the need for Turkey and...

Syrian musician Kinan Azmeh has toured the world for years to international acclaim but his planned return on Thursday to his home in the United States has been thrown into uncertainty. The clarinettist and composer, who won standing ovations in Beirut on Wednesday night at the final...

The U.N. envoy for Iraq says military operations to liberate Iraq from ISIS will be coming to an end "in the rather short foreseeable future." Jan Kubis told the U.N. Security Council Thursday that "the days of the so-called ISIL are counted," using one of the acronymns for the militant...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Former al Qaeda group aimed to escape US-led airstrikes through dissolving in a new alliance, Haya't al-Sham Tahrir (The Sham Liberation Committee), jihadist source said, such an aim may drag the allied Islamist groups with Jabhat Fateh al-Sham to blacklist and Coalition's...