Turkey can no longer insist on a resolution of the conflict in Syria without the involvement of President Bashar Assad, as the situation on the ground has changed dramatically, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Mehmet Simsek said Friday. "As far as our position on Assad is concerned, we...

Britain's police watchdog is to hold an investigation after officers were filmed firing a stun-gun at their own local black race relations adviser who they apparently mistook for a wanted suspect, the force involved said Friday. Judah Adunbi, 63, who is a founder member of an Independent...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 100 Fateh al-Sham fighters have been killed late on Thursday in U.S. air strikes hit a training camp in northern Aleppo province, a U.S. defense official said. The strike was carried out Thursday by an Air Force B-52 bomber and an undisclosed number of...

A banner reading "Build Bridges Not Walls" was draped across London's Tower Bridge Friday as part of a series of events across the world aimed at expressing displeasure at Donald Trump. Trump, who will be sworn in as the 45th president of the United States Friday, faces protests in...

Russia has observed positive signs in the Syria peace process and sees a meeting in the Kazakh capital next week as an important step toward establishing a framework for talks taking place in Geneva, Russian news agencies cited Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying Friday. Lavrov was also...

(Daily Sabah)- Twenty-three Daesh terrorists have been killed by Turkish airstrikes and shelling as part of the operation to liberate the northern Syrian town of al-Bab from terrorists, the military said on Friday. A total of 205 identified targets were shelled by the Turkish military,...

West African officials say Gambia's defeated President Yahya Jammeh must cede power by noon Friday or he will be dislodged by a regional force that has already moved into the country. Marcel Alain de Souza, chairman of the West African regional bloc, ECOWAS, said early Friday that if Jammeh...

Thailand's junta is setting up a reconciliation panel of generals and experts to find common ground between political factions ahead of elections, the general named to lead the body said Friday. But critics questioned how neutral the panel would be given decades of military involvement in...

 Turkey edged closer to adopting a constitutional bill extending President Tayyip Erdogan's powers overnight, with parliament approving four more articles of a reform which opponents see as a step towards an authoritarian state. Erdogan, who could rule the European Union candidate...

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Friday that he plans to visit the U.S. as soon as possible to meet with incoming U.S. President Donald Trump. Speaking on the eve of Trump's inauguration, he called the U.S.-Japan alliance an "unchanging principle" for his country's foreign and...

Three people died and 20 more were hurt Friday when a car ploughed into pedestrians in the Australian city of Melbourne, but police said it was not a terror attack. Witnesses described "bodies flying through the air" and people running out of the path of the speeding car in the central...

More than 80 Islamic State militants, some of whom were believed to be plotting attacks in Europe, died in U.S. air strikes on camps outside the group's former North African stronghold of Sirte in Libya, the United States said on Thursday. "These strikes were directed against some of ISIL's...

Donald Trump will not wait for Congress to confirm his Cabinet positions to act on his vows to withdraw from the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal and renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), a spokesman for the president-elect said on Thursday. Trump,...

 Iran's government and entities close to the elite Revolutionary Guards have signed major economic contracts with Syria, reaping what appear to be lucrative rewards for helping President Bashar al-Assad regain control of parts of his country from rebels. An opposition group condemned the...

(The Wall Street Journal)- President Barack Obama entered the Oval Office with a promise not to engage the U.S. in protracted and messy conflicts like Iraq and Afghanistan. As he leaves, his adherence to that promise is muddying his foreign-policy legacy because of how he handled another Mideast...

A Qatari Foreign Ministry official said Thursday that Doha had been invited to talks on the Syria conflict that are to take place in the Kazakh capital Astana later this month. "An official invitation was received," the official, who declined to be named, told Reuters. Qatar is a backer...

Jordan is deploying more forces to face a growing threat to its borders, as ISIS extremists in neighboring Iraq and Syria are being dislodged from some strongholds, the commander of the kingdom's border guards said Thursday. ISIS, which seized large parts of Iraq and Syria in 2014, is under...

(Eqtsad)- Prices of firewood in the of Idlib countryside have risen due to the recent cold weather conditions, according residents and traders, as it is considered the main source for heating. Firewood prices have risen by 20% to 25% and shortage was noticed in the amount of dry firewood and...

The French government has filed a legal complaint against cement maker Lafarge for buying oil in Syria to power a factory there in violation of sanctions, sources close to the case told AFP Thursday. Lafarge is suspected of sourcing oil locally to operate the Jalabiya cement factory in...

(The Wall Street Journal)- Islamic State has ramped up sales of oil and gas to the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, U.S. and European officials said, providing vital fuel to the government in return for desperately needed cash. The regime’s purchases are helping sustain Islamic...