Five children were hurt on Friday when an explosive ripped through a schoolyard in Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeast, a region gripped by violence between militants and state security forces for months, security sources said. The sources blamed the attack on the Kurdistan Workers...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Al Qaeda's Syria branch, the Nusra Front, has set up three more checkpoints in rebel-held Aleppo city late on Wednesday, such a move sparked outrage of rebel factions operating in Aleppo. Zaman al Wasl reporter said people of Aleppo have also expressed their disappointment...

At least 12 refugees have drowned in the Aegean Sea after their boat sank near the Foca district of the western Turkish province of Izmir. The Turkish Coast Guard found the bodies on Thursday while on patrol. However, 26 other people were rescued, including children and women, and 12 more...

Iraqi Prime Minister Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday that three Americans who disappeared in Iraq last week "just went missing," and he very much doubted any Iranian involvement. Asked by a pool reporter at the start of a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in Davos...