Fresh Israeli air strikes hit Hamas targets in the Gaza Strip on Friday, Israel's army said, as a week of hostilities between the Jewish State and the Palestinian enclave raged on. Israel says the strikes, and other measures including halting the territory's fuel supply, are in retaliation...

Afghan authorities on Friday said they had started to release 400 Taliban prisoners, the final hurdle in long-delayed peace talks between the two warring sides, even as President Ashraf Ghani warned they were a "danger to the world". The Afghan government and the Taliban are set to meet...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Thursday warned of a "heavy price" if a Turkish vessel searching for oil and gas in disputed Mediterranean waters was attacked and hinted that one incident had already occurred. Existing tensions between Turkey and Greece escalated when Ankara this...

Iraq has urged its Arab allies to help persuade Turkey to withdraw its troops from Iraqi territory, where they have been raiding Kurdish militant positions, the foreign ministry said Thursday. Its comments come two days after a Turkish drone strike killed two high-ranking Iraqi officers in...