CAIRO (dpa)- Iraq has asked neighbouring Turkey and Iran to close their borders with Iraqi Kurdistan amid a dispute with the autonomous Kurdish region its independence referendum, state television...

ISTANBUL, Shabtai Gold and Ergin Hava (dpa)- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke Saturday of a "serious operation" in Idlib, a province under rebel control in northern Syria, amid a reported...

GENEVA (dpa)- Civilian casualties in Syria have been mounting in the past two weeks, as fighting intensifies to the highest level since last year's battle for Aleppo, the Red Cross said Thursday....

MOSCOW (dpa)- Saudi Arabian King Salman bin Abdul Aziz harshly criticized Iran on his first visit to Russia, which has close relations with the Islamic republic. Iran must refrain from interfering in...

PARIS/ISTANBUL, Pol O Gradaigh and Shabtai Gold (dpa)- Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday that soon the airspace and borders to the Iraqi Kurdish region will be shut as part of the...

CAIRO (dpa)- Iraqi Kurdish leaders on Sunday agreed to form a political council to handle issues related to a recent independence vote that has angered the central government in Baghdad and...

BEIRUT (dpa) - Jordan have been summarily deporting Syrian refugees to their war-torn country without providing reasons or a chance for them to challenge their removal, a watchdog reported Monday. In...

BARCELONA, Alvise Armellini (dpa) - Catalans have "gained the right" to secede from Spain after Madrid responded on Sunday to an unauthorized independence referendum, in which the "yes" vote took 90...

ISTANBUL (dpa) – Police in the north-western Turkish city of Bursa have arrested a man suspected of killing a Syrian opposition activist and her daughter in their Istanbul home last week, the...