At least 18 migrants died Sunday after their boat capsized in the Aegean Sea while trying to cross from Turkey to Greece, a Turkish official said. The Turkish coastguard rescued 15 migrants from the boat off the coastal town of Didim in southwest Turkey, the official told AFP, speaking on...

ISIS claimed responsibility for a suicide truck bomb blast that killed at least 47 people Sunday south of Baghdad. In a statement posted on social media, ISIS named the bomber who detonated his explosives-laden truck at a checkpoint outside the city of Hilla as Abu Islam al-Ansari....

(Middle East Eye)- Last September, Israeli and Russian media reported a deal between the Russian aerospace company Oboronprom and Israeli Aerospace Industries for the sale of 10 IAI Searcher drones to Russia. Since the 2008 war between Russia and Georgia, in which Russia lost more manned...

A total of 135 people were killed in the first week of a partial truce in Syria in areas covered by the deal, a monitoring group said on Saturday, highlighting its fragile nature just days before the United Nations attempts to reconvene peace talks. U.N. envoy Staffan de...