Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday he had asked to meet Syria’s Bashar al-Assad on the sidelines of UN talks in New York next week to normalize ties. Turkey and Syria severed diplomatic relations in 2011 after the outbreak of the Syrian war, but Erdogan has sought...

The Israeli army on Saturday conducted a series of airstrikes on southern Lebanon and the Bekaa region, according to an Anadolu correspondent. Air raid sirens have also been activated in Kiryat Shmona and several settlements in the Upper Galilee, the Israeli Army Radio said, adding that 25...

Israeli forces  killed at least 27 Palestinians in tank and air strikes on north and central areas of the  Gaza  Strip on Friday, medics said, as tanks advanced further into northwest Rafah near the border with Egypt. The unrelenting fighting between the Israelis and Hamas...

At least 15 Palestinians, including several women and children, were killed early Friday in Israeli airstrikes targeting the central and northern Gaza Strip. Medical sources told Anadolu that nine Palestinians, including women and children, were killed in Israeli shelling of a house in the...