An explosion on Tuesday near a central Istanbul subway station has injured at least one person, the province's governor said. The blast occurred at an intersection in Bayrampasa district on the European side at around 6.00 p.m. local time (1600GMT). One person was injured, the governor Vasip...

An airstrike on a water treatment plant in Syria last Thursday cut water supplies for 3.5 million people, and although pumping has been partly restored, 1.4 million still have reduced supply, the head of U.N. agency UNICEF in Syria said Tuesday. "In Syria, the rules of war, including...

A coalition led by the United States conducted 12 strikes against ISIS in Iraq on Monday, and hit the militant group with a single strike in Syria, said a statement released Tuesday. The sole Syria strike was near Al Hawl, hitting a tactical unit, the statement from the Combined Joint Task...

A deal has been reached for the evacuation of Syrian opposition fighters from the last district under their control in the central city of Homs, the provincial governor told AFP Tuesday. "All the rebels will leave Waer (district) within two months. A group of 200 to 300 armed men will leave...

A Saudi-sponsored conference meant to unify as many Syrian political and armed opposition factions as possible around a common agenda is convening in Abha within ten days, ahead of forthcoming negotiations with the Syrian regime, slated for January 1, 2016. Earlier reports had suggested Riyadh...

The Lebanese army has reportedly released the ex-wife of Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi as part of a prisoner swap deal brokered by Qatar. Saja Dulaimi, who was married to the militant commander six years ago, has been handed over to the al-Qaeda linked Nusra Front group,...

Six children died in southeastern Turkey on Tuesday after a fire caused by a suspected electrical fault engulfed the dormitory of their religious school, emergency workers said. The boys, aged between 10 and 13 years, were killed as they slept when the fire broke out at 2:40 a.m....

(USA TODAY)- The Pentagon will consider deploying more special operations troops to fight Islamic State militants if its pilot project in Syria shows signs of progress, a senior Defense official told USA TODAY on Monday. The Pentagon last month announced that 50 commandos would be sent to...

The body of a Lebanese soldier killed after being taken captive by the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front was handed over to a Lebanese security agency and the Red Cross on Tuesday, the state news agency reported. A security source said the return of the body of Mohamed Hamieh was the...

Israeli security forces shot dead a suspected Palestinian assailant who tried to stab a man at a busy intersection near a West Bank settlement on Tuesday, police said, a location that has seen several incidents during two months of violence. A police spokeswoman said the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday said he would be ready to quit office if allegations by Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin that Turkey traded oil with Islamic State (IS) jihadists were proven. "I will say something very strong here. If such a thing is proven, the...

Iraq's interior ministry blamed Iranian authorities on Monday for allowing tens of thousands of Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims to storm a border crossing and enter the country without visas, in a rare public confrontation between the two neighbors. The ministry said in a statement that...

By Barak Mendelsohn (Foreign Affairs)- The October bombing of a Russian airliner above Sinai , followed quickly by the November Paris attacks , created a broad international consensus that the Islamic State ( ISIS ) is on the march and must be stopped. The United States had...

The White House said on Monday it has seen "some intensification" of Russian air strikes against Islamic State in Syria during the past several weeks. White House deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters that Russia previously had infrequently targeted...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A Syrian newborn who had been taken hostage by a Lebanese hospital as  his displaced family could not pay the last $1200 of treatment expenses, has been freed on Monday, activists said. Mohamed Qassab, Syrian activist based in Lebanon, said Syrian and Lebanese...

Six PKK terrorists were killed and a Turkish solider was martyred in southeastern Turkey in separate incidents Monday, the Turkish military said. Three PKK terrorists were killed and a Turkish soldier was martyred following an armed PKK terrorist attack in southeastern Mardin province in...

U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Syria crisis and the situation in Ukraine during a meeting Monday on the sidelines of the climate summit in Paris, a White House official said. Obama stressed the importance of targeting Islamic State...

Tunisia's 3,000-year history of olive farming is under threat with warnings that production is at risk of halving by 2030 because of the extremes of climate change, from floods to droughts. "Before it used to rain regularly and the harvest was good. Today, everything is...

Iraq's military command has told civilians in the ISIS-held Ramadi to leave the city, a sign that an operation may soon be underway to retake the provincial capital. Monday's statement, broadcast on Iraqi state TV, says the Ramadi families are requested to leave the city from its southern,...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a meeting with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at the climate conference in Paris Monday, the Kremlin said, as a dispute rages over Ankara's downing of a Russian warplane. "No meeting with Erdogan is planned. There is no discussion of such...