Former Turkish head of state Abdullah Gul on Saturday ruled out running for the presidency in June, dousing fevered speculation he would challenge incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The polls are significant because under constitutional changes approved in an April 2017 referendum, Turkey...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia, Turkey and Iran need to help Syria’s government clear its country of terrorists, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Saturday. He was speaking at a meeting in Moscow with his counterparts from Turkey and Iran.

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a military camp in the Somali town of Galkayo Saturday, killing four officers, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group. The dead included a military commander and two colonels, the town's mayor, Hirsi Yusuf Barre,...

Armenian protest leader Nikol Pashinyan Saturday rallied support for his bid to become prime minister following the resignation of veteran leader Serzh Sarkisian as a major opposition party readied its choice. Pashinyan was to hold anti-government rallies in Armenia's third largest city...

 A Taliban suicide bomber attacked an army base in southern Helmand province Saturday killing four civilians and two soldiers, officials said. Omar Zwak, spokesman for the provincial governor in Helmand, said three civilians and two soldiers were wounded in the attack in Nad Ali...

Yemeni security forces said they killed a senior Daesh (ISIS) commander in a gunbattle in the southern city of Aden Saturday, dealing a blow to the group's powerful Yemen branch. Saleh Nasser Fadhl al-Bakshi held the title of "Prince" for the Aden area in the militant group's Yemen...

Israeli Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman reiterated Friday that Israel will not allow Iran to establish a foothold in Syria that would pose a threat to his country. "What our problem is and what we will not allow is for Iranians to establish a base in Syria against Israel," Lieberman...

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford spoke with his Turkish counterpart Hulusi Akar over the phone on Friday, according to the Pentagon.  "The two leaders discussed the current security environment in Syria and the Middle East in addition to other mutual items...

Syrian regime airstrikes and shelling killed 17 civilians including seven children Friday in the Palestinian camp of Yarmouk in southern Damascus, a Britain-based activist group said. Government forces have pounded southern districts of the capital since April 19 to try to expel Daesh (ISIS)...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 20 people, including commanders, activists and army defectors, have been killed in the past 48 hours by assailants in the northern province of Idlib, local reporter said Friday. Medics told Zaman al-Wasl that five civilians were killed by an improvised...

President Donald Trump said Friday he is considering traveling to Israel next month to open the new U.S. embassy, which he controversially ordered moved to Jerusalem from Tel Aviv. "I may go. I'm very proud of it," he said at a White House press conference alongside German Chancellor...

GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead three protesters along the Gaza border on Friday, Gaza medics said, hours after the United Nations human rights chief criticized Israel for using “excessive force” against demonstrators. Israeli troops have killed 41 Palestinians and wounded...

Syrian regime forces Friday advanced against Daesh (ISIS) militants in the south of Damascus, state media said, after more than a week of bombardment on the area. "Army units backed by the air force and artillery have advanced on numerous axes" in southern Damascus, including the...

New U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said President Donald Trump has not taken a decision on whether to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal but was not likely to keep to it without substantial changes. "There's been no decision, so the team is working and I am sure we will have lots of...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo Friday warned of the "seriousness of U.S. concerns" in a meeting with his Turkish counterpart in Brussels over Ankara's decision to buy Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile batteries, which are not compatible with NATO's defenses. "The secretary...

  (Zaman Al Wasl TV)- In this report, Zaman TV sheds the light on the fund shortage in Talbiseh’s dairy factory in the northern countryside of Homs province where the female workers, mostly widows of war victims, have no income. The charity that founded the factory is no more...

At least 50 Palestinians on Friday were injured by the Israeli army amid ongoing demonstrations on the Gaza Strip’s eastern border, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. The ministry also reported that four Palestinian medics had suffered respiratory problems after Israeli...

Saudi air defenses on Friday intercepted a “ballistic missile” fired towards the kingdom’s southern Jazan region, according to Saudi television channel Al-Ekhbariya. “Air defenses intercepted a missile fired towards Jazan by Yemen’s Houthi militia group,” the broadcaster reported...

Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday that Iran has not sought Moscow's help in case the United States decides to re-impose economic sanctions on Tehran. U.S. President Donald Trump has said that unless European allies fix the "terrible flaws" in the Iran nuclear deal...

Sweden's legendary disco group ABBA announced Friday that they have reunited to record two new songs, 35 years after their last single. "We all four felt that, after some 35 years, it could be fun to join forces again and go into the recording studio. So we did," the group said in a...