(Daily Sabah)- A group of suspected pro-PKK assailants attacked a building belonging to a Turkish man in Essen city located in Germany's North Rhine-Westphalia by Molotov cocktails late Friday, reports said on Saturday. The attack follows a number of developments which took place on Friday,...

(The Guardian)- A Russian frigate armed with cruise missiles has passed through the Bosphorus on its way to the eastern Mediterranean in a potentially ominous development for the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo. The Admiral Grigorovich, part of Russia’s Black Sea fleet, arrived off the...

(Carnegie Endowment)- Relations between Saudi Arabia and Egypt, two previously staunch allies, have recently soured. This can be attributed to Egypt’s inability to perform its role as a guarantor of regional Gulf security against growing Iranian hegemony and its desire to cultivate other, less...

The battle for Mosul, Iraq, raged on Friday and streams of civilians continued an exodus from the city. After punching into the city on Tuesday, Iraqi forces paused briefly. They moved deeper into the eastern districts of the city but encountered fierce resistance from Islamic State...

(Daily Star)- An Istanbul court Saturday remanded in custody ahead of trial nine staff from the opposition Cumhuriyet newspaper, in an intensifying crackdown a day after the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish party were also jailed. There had been growing international alarm over the...

(Daily Star)- A mayor detained at a jail in the central Philippines for drug-related charges was killed along with another inmate in a shootout Saturday, police said, as a bloody crackdown on narcotics continues in the Southeast Asian country. Rolando Espinosa, mayor of Albuera town in...

Turkey's military hit 71 ISIS targets in Syria over the last 24 hours, the army said Saturday, intensifying strikes against the militant group, which has claimed responsibility for the latest bomb attack in southeast Turkey. Five ISIS fighters were killed in the strikes, as were five...

Two roadside bombs struck a convoy carrying Iraqi families fleeing an Islamic State-controlled town in the north of the country late on Friday, killing 18 people, a police officer said. The bombs targeted a truck carrying people from Hawija, about 120 km (75 miles) south of Islamic State's...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two Syrian regime soldiers killed and others injured in clashes between two regime militias in Hasaka on Thursday whereas Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) armed man was injured by a bomb in Gwayran neighborhood south of Hasaka, activists said. Acitivst Abdul Malek al-Ali...

  (Eqtsad)- Mohamed, a pseudonym, is a Syrian refugee in France. He thinks that he indirectly ate a whole pig and also he ate a significant amount of non-halal meat. He also drank without knowing at least two bottles of alcohol and gambled when his friend asked him for the first time to...

Syrian rebels and civilians showed no sign of leaving the besieged opposition-held sector of Aleppo on Friday, despite a Russian deadline to resume bombing Syria's largest city at nightfall after a 17-day pause. The rebels' own shelling of residential parts of government-held western Aleppo...

(Daily Sabah)- A Turkish soldier was killed and two others injured in an attack carried out by Daesh in northern Syria, the military said in a statement Friday. The Turkish General Staff said the soldier had succumbed to his injures in Turkey's Gaziantep province. The soldiers were...

A French court has handed a three-month suspended jail sentence to a teenager who named his domestic wifi network after ISIS, his lawyer said Friday. "There was no sympathy for terrorism! There was only the word 'Daesh21,'" explained lawyer Karima Manhouli, saying he would appeal his...

(The Guardian)- Squabbling between Saudi Arabia and Iran has sent the oil price down, as tension between the near neighbours threatened to derail talks aimed at cutting production by the Opec group of oil-producing countries. Riyadh is reportedly threatening to turn the screw on Tehran...

(The Daily Star)- The European Union's foreign policy chief discussed with her Turkish counterpart the arrest of Kurdish opposition lawmakers Friday, after expressing deep concern over the detentions. Federica Mogherini tweeted that she had spoken with Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut...

Novak Djokovic crashed out of the Paris Masters in straight sets to Marin Cilic on Friday, opening the door for Andy Murray to snatch the world number one ranking and end the Serb's two-year stranglehold at the top. Djokovic, who was chasing a fifth title in Paris, was beaten 6-4 7-6 (2),...

German prosecutors are investigating Mark Zuckerberg and other Facebook executives, a spokesman for the Munich prosecutor's office said Friday, following a complaint alleging the company broke national laws against hate speech and sedition by failing to remove racist postings. The spokesman...

Iran-run PressTV reported that a close source to the Lebanese Hezbollah militia, speaking on condition of anonymity, said on Friday that 19-year-old Kassem Shamkha was killed the previous day by the Syrian resistance west of the embattled city of Aleppo. The late midfielder used to play for...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian woman has stabbed two of her children to death in Germany, shocking the nation, that still remembering the previous two murders, one is killing a woman and her two daughters and the other for a father who threw his 3 children from the window. Media in Germany...

One U.S. military service member was killed and two were critically injured on Friday in a shooting as they approached the gate to a training facility in Jordan, two U.S. officials said, declining to provide further details on the incident. One of the officials said there was no indication...