ISTANBUL (dpa)- Turkey launched a military operation on Friday targeting Kurdish insurgents in the country's south-east, the Interior Ministry said. The operation, covering the predominantly Kurdish...
NEW YORK (dpa)- The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is set to produce in the next few months a report identifying the culprits of chemical weapons attacks in Syria, the...
ISTANBUL, Anindita Ramaswamy (dpa)- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that Turkey captured a wife of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who died during a US military operation...
TEL AVIV, Sophie Wingate and Miranda Lee Murray (dpa)- The head of the United Nations agency that supports Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) has resigned after an internal probe found he had presided over...
WASHINGTON (dpa)- The United States added the Iranian armed forces and nine individuals in the inner circle of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to a sanctions list, saying the move will impede...
ISTANBUL, Anindita Ramaswamy (dpa)- Turkey says it captured a sister of slain Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi during a raid in the Syrian town of Azaz, calling the detention an...
WASHINGTON (dpa)- A US State Department official said Friday that the United States will subject the new leader chosen to head the Islamic State terrorist group to "unrelenting" pressure. "We will...
TEHRAN, Farshid Motahari (dpa)- State-organized rallies were taking place across Iran on Monday to mark the 40th anniversary of the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran. Thousands of school pupils and...
NEW YORK, Sophie Wingate (dpa)- US Democratic presidential hopeful Beto O'Rourke announced on Friday that he was dropping out of the race. "My service to the country will not be as a candidate or as...
GENEVA/BEIRUT, dpa correspondents (dpa)- The Syrian opposition dismissed as "baseless" remarks made by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who cast doubts over UN-brokered intra-Syrian talks in Geneva....