Tunisia's Free Patriotic Union party – which has the third largest bloc in parliament – has said it would throw its weight behind presidential candidate Beji Caid Essebsi of the centrist Nidaa Tounes party in a runoff vote slated for late December. "We call on supporters to vote for...

More than 7,000 suspected foreign fighters travelling to Iraq and Syria have been banned from entering Turkey, the country's Foreign Minister has announced. Mevlut Cavusoglu's comments came on Friday as counter-terrorism methods took center stage on the final day...

(Anadolu Agency)- Turkey cannot accept hegemons writing the history of the arts and the sciences, and even the Nobel Prize is not awarded objectively, said President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday. "We cannot abandon our cinema, literature and art. Turkey...

(AP)- A Sunni militant commander in Syria who has pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group has threatened to “retaliate” against Lebanese Shiites over the arrest of his wife and two children in Lebanon, according to a new militant posting. Abu Ali al-Shishani also says in a...

Belgium’s main political parties are reportedly working on a resolution to recognize Palestine as a state, a Belgian daily reported Wednesday. Le Soir reported that Belgium’s coalition government reached an agreement earlier this week. The Belgian parliament will reportedly debate a...

Saudi Arabia and Gulf countries are to maintain their market share and resist falling oil prices, say experts. The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, OPEC, convened on Nov. 27 in Vienna to devise a strategy against falling oil prices,...

Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday that there has not yet been any decision to move forward with any form of a safe zone for Syrian refugees. "There’s a lot of discussion going on about the way we will go forward. But it is premature to suggest at this moment...

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(Reuters)- A second group of 150 Iraqi Kurdish Peshmerga forces has entered the Syrian border town of Kobane from Turkey to replace a first group helping Kurdish forces fight off a siege by Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) militants, Peshmerga sources said on Thursday....

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At least 19 people, including 10 police officers and nine militants, were killed and 28 others injured in clashes in Grozny, the capital of Russia’s autonomous Republic of  Chechnya Thursday, an official statement said on Thursday.   According to a...

Russia aims to sell natural gas to Turkey at a six percent discount rate that could be increased further to 15 percent later, Russian Energy Minister said Thursday. “If the market conditions get more beneficial, we could increase our six percent discount offer to 15 percent...

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published on Thursday he expected his country's conflict to be long and difficult but vowed to defeat the insurgents battling to oust him and said he would not be driven from power....

  Tunis (AFP)- Tunisia’s first parliament since the 2011 revolution on Thursday elected veteran politician Mohamed Ennaceur, 80, of anti-Islamist party Nidaa Tounes as house speaker. Ennaceur, the sole candidate, won 174 votes from the 214 MPs in attendance. In a brief...

BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants launched an attack overnight on a major military air base in eastern Syria in what looked to be a push to eliminate the last significant government outpost in the extremist-dominated region, activists said Thursday. The airfield just outside...

The Islamic State group, which overran large areas of Iraq and Syria, has set up training camps in eastern Libya and the American military is closely monitoring, a top US general said Wednesday. Western countries have been increasingly worried that Libya's political turmoil...

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Police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a 37-year-old American teacher in a bathroom of an upscale mall in Abu Dhabi on Monday. Abu Dhabi police released video footage Wednesday of a suspect wearing a traditional black abaya, which covers the entire body, and a...

(Anadolu News Agency)- U.S. officials on Tuesday clarified opposing statements made a day earlier about media reports about negotiations on a buffer zone in Syria along the Turkish border.  Pentagon spokesperson Rear Adm. John Kirby said that a buffer zone in northern Syria...