Twin bombings near the headquarters of an Iranian Kurdish opposition party killed seven people Tuesday, a rare attack in Iraq's relatively secure autonomous Kurdish region, a senior security official said. The bombings hit the town of Koysinjaq about 10:00 pm (1900 GMT), killing five members...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the most powerful person in Turkey in almost a century, rivaled only by Ataturk — the secular founder of the republic. Erdogan first assumed power as prime minister in 2003, and in 2014 he won elections to become president. After already having controlled...

Two-time Wimbledon tennis champion Petra Kvitova underwent nearly four hours of surgery on her playing hand on Tuesday after she was stabbed by a knife-wielding intruder in her home in the Czech Republic. Early indications showed the Czech world number 11 could well make a recovery and...

Sixteen Daesh positions were hit by Turkish military aircraft in northern Syria as part of Operation Euphrates Shield, the Turkish military said on Tuesday. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said the land and air operation was carried in the Al-Bab area. Fighter jets destroyed 16...

George Clooney is to make a fictional film about the White Helmets – the Syria Civil Defence whose approximate 3,000 volunteers act as first responders in the war-torn country. Clooney is said to be using as his source Netflix’s documentary short The White Helmets, which was released in...

Oil prices rose on Tuesday, touching a one-week high on expectations of a steep draw in U.S. crude stocks, but edged off gains after Libya announced the reopening of pipelines after a two-year blockade ended recently. Benchmark Brent crude futures LCOc1 were up 40 cents, or 0.7 percent, at...

(Al Jazeera)- A man arrested on suspicion of killing 12 people by driving through a Berlin Christmas market in a lorry has been released because of a lack of evidence, according to the chief federal prosecutor's office. The man released was a young Pakistani refugee who had arrived in...

(Sky News)- Just 3,000 people are believed to be preparing to be evacuated from the last rebel-held area in eastern Aleppo. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 60 buses would pick up the remaining 3,000 fighters and their families. At least 25,000 people have been...

As President Bashar al-Assad's army closed in on the last rebel enclave in Aleppo on Tuesday, Russia, Iran and Turkey said they were ready to help broker a Syrian peace deal. The Syrian army used loudspeakers to broadcast warnings to insurgents that it was poised to enter their rapidly...

Turkey's foreign minister has told U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry that Ankara and Moscow believe followers of Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen were behind the killing of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov, ministry sources said Tuesday. Ankara has also accused Gulen of orchestrating a failed...

The Syrian government and other parties on the ground have agreed to allow 20 observers to be sent to east Aleppo to monitor evacuations, the U.N. spokesman said Tuesday. The United Nations is however waiting for all sides to grant access for deliveries of humanitarian aid to Aleppo, where...

A Russian plane carrying the body of the ambassador assassinated in Turkey landed Tuesday in Moscow, where he was to be honoured in a ceremony, news agencies said. Andrei Karlov's coffin and his widow travelled back to Russia after the veteran diplomat was shot dead by a 22-year-old Turkish...

Syrian regime army on Tuesday urged the last remaining rebels and civilians to leave the besieged opposition enclave in Aleppo as it prepares to take full control of the devastated city. The evacuation of Aleppo's rebel sector is seen as a pivotal moment in the nearly six-year war that...

The remains of Russian envoy Andrey Karlov were sent back to Moscow from Turkey Tuesday, a day after he was shot dead by an off-duty police officer in the Turkish capital. The white, red and blue Russian flag was draped on the casket as a Russian Orthodox priest recited prayers in a ceremony...

The Syrian army broadcast messages into the last rebel enclave of Aleppo on Tuesday, warning that it was poised to enter the area during the day and urging insurgents to speed up their evacuation of the city. An operation to evacuate civilians and fighters from rebel-held eastern Aleppo...

The number of refugees from the war-battered city of Aleppo being treated in Turkish hospitals grew to 148, Turkey’s Directorate General of Press and Information announced early Tuesday. The injured, those in critical condition in particular, have been transported to hospitals in Turkey’s...

 Russian investigators worked Tuesday to determine whether the assassination of their ambassador to Turkey was the work of a lone gunman or part of a wider conspiracy as the two countries, which have backed opposing sides in the Syrian war, said they would not let the killing disrupt...

Protests are planned in Tunisia over the killing of the head of Palestinian militant group Hamas' drone program in a Tunisian beach resort. Hamas accuses Israel of assassinating him. In addition to Tuesday's protests, Tunisia's Parliament is expected to hold a special session in the coming...

Syria's army broadcast messages into the last rebel enclave of Aleppo saying it would enter the area on Tuesday, a military media unit run by the government's ally Hezbollah reported, urging insurgents to speed up their evacuation of the city. A rebel official based in Turkey told Reuters...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Moscow’s invitation to 24 Syrian Kurdish parties to attend a meeting in Hmeymim base in the Syrian coast comes as an attempt to provide an opposition coverage to Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) in order to participate within the opposition negotiation delegate for the...