(Daily Sabah)- A group of suspected pro-PKK assailants attacked a building belonging to a Turkish man in Essen city located in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia by Molotov cocktails late Friday, reports said on Saturday. The attack follows a number of developments which took place on Friday,...

(The Guardian)- A Russian frigate armed with cruise missiles has passed through the Bosphorus on its way to the eastern Mediterranean in a potentially ominous development for the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo. The Admiral Grigorovich, part of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, arrived off the...

(Carnegie Endowment)- Relations between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two previously staunch allies, have recently soured. This can be attributed to Egypt’s inability to perform its role as a guarantor of regional Gulf security against growing Iranian hegemony and its desire to cultivate other, less...

The battle for Mosul, Iraq, raged on Friday and streams of civilians continued an exodus from the city. After punching into the city on Tuesday, Iraqi forces paused briefly. They moved deeper into the eastern districts of the city but encountered fierce resistance from Islamic State...