ANKARA, Turkey: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit southeastern Turkey on Thursday, causing wide panic in one town, damaging buildings...
ANKARA, Turkey: An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.5 hit southeastern Turkey on Thursday, causing wide panic in one town, damaging buildings...
BEIRUT: Syria's army and allied forces advanced inside Palmyra on Thursday after Islamic State pulled most of its forces back from positions inside...
GENEVA: The attack on Daesh’s Syrian stronghold Raqqah will not involve the PKK/PYD, a leading Syrian-Kurdish politician said Thursday. Fouad Aliko, who is...
BEIRUT: Syrian warplanes carried out eight air strikes in the rebel-held al-Waer district of Homs on Thursday, a military media unit run by...
Khartoum: A former army general and top aide to President Omar al-Bashir was sworn in Thursday as Sudan's first prime minister since the...
Jenin: Israeli soldiers Thursday fired tear gas canisters at Palestinians during clashes in the village of Zaboba to the west of Jenin, said...
HATAY, Turkey: member of the Syrian regime army deserted and fled to Turkey on Thursday, security sources have said. The soldier was found...
GENEVA: The Syrian opposition at Geneva IV peace talks said Wednesday they had been told by UN mediator Staffan de Mistura that the...
WASHINGTON: Kurdish forces will likely participate in the liberation of Islamic State's de facto Syrian capital "in one form or fashion", the general...
GENEVA: The aerial bombardment of eastern Aleppo by Russian and Syrian forces was a war crime, a UN panel on Syria said on...
CAIRO: Sinai will remain Egyptian territory, Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi declared this week amid rumors of plans to resettle Palestinians in the desert...
Beirut: Islamic State group fighters withdrew from much of the Syrian oasis city of Palmyra overnight, a monitor said Thursday, but government forces...
Tunis: A group of visitors at a Tunisia zoo has stoned a crocodile to death, authorities in the capital said Wednesday, denouncing the...
Algiers: Algeria's President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, who has rarely appeared in public since a crippling stroke in 2013, marks his 80th birthday on Thursday...
MOGADISHU, Somalia: A bomb in Somali capital Mogadishu killed an intelligence official and left three civilians injured on Wednesday, police said. Police Capt....
ISTANBUL: Turkish municipalities revealed on Wednesday that nearly four percent of Istanbul’s population are Syrian refugees. The Marmara Municipalities’ Union published a report...
Jerusalem: A Palestinian stabbed and wounded a settler whose home he broke into in the occupied West Bank before the Israeli shot him...
Damascus: Two rare busts rescued from the Islamic State group in the ancient city of Palmyra and restored in Italy have been returned...
