Turkey will lift a historic ban on female officers wearing the Islamic headscarf in the officially secular country's armed forces, state media said Wednesday. The military was the final Turkish institution where women were prohibited from wearing the headscarf, after reforms by the...

More than a year ago, Mayar and Nawar Ballish escaped car bomb attacks in Damascus. Now the Syrian sisters, both students in their twenties, go to school by train past neat gardens and farms in the quiet hills of Bavaria, southern Germany. They have lived there since October 2015. Their...

Malaysian police on Wednesday named a senior official in North Korea's embassy and a staffer at its state airline, who are wanted for questioning over the murder last week of Kim Jong Nam, the estranged half-brother of North Korea's leader. Kim Jong Nam, 46, was killed at Kuala Lumpur...

Israel's Shin Bet security service said Monday it had arrested an Arab Israeli on suspicion of aiding ISIS and plotting attacks. Its agents and police had arrested Anas Haj Yahya, 35, from the northern town of Taibe, on Jan. 29 "in the wake of intelligence information which pointed to him as...