A fighter proclaiming allegiance to Islamic State has appeared in a video urging fellow Turks to rebel against "infidel" President Tayyip Erdogan and help conquer Istanbul, highlighting the threat the NATO member faces as it battles the radical insurgents. Turkey has been in a heightened...

  A senior commander in the al-Qaeda-linked group Nusra Front was killed  on Monday  in southern city of Daraa by unidentified gunmen, activists said. Ahmed Mohamed al-Falouji, Nusra's security official in Daraa, was assassinated by unknown group broke into a...

The UN Security Council Monday backed a push for Syrian peace talks as the death toll in government air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus neared 100, sparking global outrage. It came just hours after UN officials expressed horror over Sunday's deadly raids on Douma, among the...

Turkey's nationalist opposition rejected a coalition with the ruling AK Party and refused to support a minority government on Monday, further complicating Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's efforts to break a debilitating political deadlock. The breakdown in talks between the nationalists...

The Syrian military bombarded an area northeast of Damascus on Monday, keeping up its attack on a rebel-held district where around 100 people were killed on Sunday in an air strike on a market, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Sunday's air strike on Douma, 10 miles (15 km)...

(Translation by Yusra Ahmed) A child girl died and many fainted in Derik camp for Syrian refugees near Turkish Mardin city on Monday as a result of using tear gas, rubber bullets and water to suppress a protest for Syrians inside the camp. Zaman al-Wasl source said many Syrian youths...

Turkey still faces the risk of being hit by Syrian missiles, a NATO official has told Anadolu Agency. The claim follows news that the U.S. and Germany will not renew their deployment of missile defense systems in the country. In a written statement on Monday, the NATO official -- on...

At least 440 suspected militants of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed and 400 others have been injured in operations carried out by Turkish security forces between July 7 and August 17, figures compiled by Anadolu Agency have revealed. The figures were obtained from...

Syria's air strikes on Monday have killed 7 civilians, including 2 children, in rebel-held neighborhoods of northern city of Aleppo, Zaman al-Wasl local reporter said. The aerial campaign targeted neighborhoods of al-Ansari, Salahuddin, killing 7 people and leaving material losses. On...

Iran's nuclear deal with world powers will not open the Islamic Republic to political or economic influence from the United States and could still be blocked by either country, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday. The conservative cleric, Iran's highest authority, has...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday approved an anti-terrorism law that sets up special courts and provides protections to its enforcers in the face of a two-year-long insurgency that aims to topple his government. The law also details sentences for various terrorism crimes...

Two Saudi border guards have been killed in an attack from Yemen by Iran-backed rebels, Riyadh's official news agency and a rebel-run news site said. Sergeants Ali al-Ghazwani and Sarwi al-Saeed were "martyred while carrying out their duty in protecting the country's borders from...

The death toll from massive air strikes on crowded market in Douma city northeast Damascus has risen to 104 and 300 people wounded, most of them civilians, monitoring groups said on Monday. Syrian regime air force carried out on Sunday a deadly air strikes dropping 10 vacuum bombs on the...

An Iraqi parliamentary panel has called for former PM Nouri Maliki to face trial over the fall of the northern city of Mosul to Islamic State in June 2014. The panel also said that Turkey and Kurdish Peshmerga had stood behind the fall of Mosul, according to Zaman al-Wasl document. The...

 The commander of Jordan's Border Guard says militants have been trying to sneak into Jordan from Syria by blending in with Syrian refugees, and that attempts to smuggle weapons and drugs have increased. In an interview with The Associated Press, Brig. Gen. Saber al-Mahayreh said Sunday...

Germany will pull two Patriot missile batteries and 250 troops from southern Turkey by the start of next year after a reassessment of the threats stemming from the conflict in neighboring Syria. Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen announced at the weekend that Berlin would let its...

5 civilians have been killed in the southern city of Daraa early Sunday as Syrian regime air force extends its aerial campaign across Syria, activists said. Local activists have also documented death of 145 rebel fighters in the last thirty days since the Southern Front had announced an...

At least 104 people on Sunday were killed and scores others were injured in a missile attack on crowded market in rebel-held city of Douma northeast Damascus, activists and  monitoring groups said. The Syrian Network for Human Rights said Syrian regime air force had pounded the city's...

The death toll from massive explosions in China's port of Tianjin has risen to 112 and 95 people, most of them fire fighters, are missing, state media said on Sunday, suggesting the toll will rise significantly. More than 720 people remained in hospital four days after Wednesday's...

An Indonesian domestic passenger aircraft carrying 54 people lost contact with air traffic control on Sunday in the remote eastern Papua region, the National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) said. "Lost contact with plane," BASARNAS chief Bambang Soelystyo told Reuters by phone....