Turkish and US troops have conducted their third joint ground patrol today within the area of the planned safe zone in northern Syria along the Turkish border, Ankara’s Defence...

Nottingham Trent University has suspended a student for using as his profile picture a selfie with an Orthodox Jewish man sleeping on a train and placing a Palestinian flag...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that large-scale military operations by the Russian armed forces in Syria are over, and has stressed on the need for a political solution...

Iran said on Friday that France’s call for it to release a detained French-Iranian scholar was an interference in its internal affairs and would not help resolve the issue,...

Facebook Inc has removed several pages, groups and accounts on its platforms from the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, Nigeria and Indonesia, citing “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”, Reuters reports. A total...

Russia managed to launch an intra-Syrian political process with its Astana format partners and with the support of the UN, President Vladimir Putin said Thursday, Reuters reports. Putin spoke...

Sudan’s prime minister on Thursday warned of disastrous consequences for his country if the world doesn’t help get its name removed from the US list of state sponsors of...

The 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and the remaining signatories can still be saved after the US withdrawal but Iran must return to the full implementation of its commitments...

The EU is aware of Turkey’s “legitimate” security concerns in northern Syria, a spokesman said on Thursday, Anadolu Agency reports. “We are aware of the legitimate Turkey’s security concerns at the...

Palestine and Turkey released special stamps to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the birth of Mahatma Gandhi. In a move to honour the anti-colonial, nonviolent activist’s “legacy and values”,...

Russia has denied reports that it successfully tested its new missile defence system, the S-500 Prometev, in Syria yesterday. It was previously reported that sources within the Russian Defence...

A town in Germany tried to stop US-Lebanese artist Walid Raad from receiving a €10,000 ($10,951) art prize due to his alleged ties and support for the pro-Palestinian Boycott,...

A police officer has rescued two children aged three and four from Iraq wandering along the M62 in northern England. In the early hours of yesterday morning the two...

Turkish authorities have fined Facebook Inc 1.6 million lira ($282,000) for violation of data protection laws which affected nearly 300,000 people, the Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) said today....

Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman exonerates himself from the murder of the journalist Jamal Khashoggi, the United Nations (UN) investigator, Agnes Callamard, said yesterday. “He ...

The Turkish military neutralized eight PKK terrorists in anti-terror operations in northern Iraq, the country’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday, reports Reuters. On Twitter, the ministry said three of...

Slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was honoured on Wednesday during a memorial in Istanbul on the first anniversary of his killing, reports Anadolu Agency. Human rights activists, loved ones...

Supporters of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi called for justice a year after his death and a UN investigator said Saud al-Qahtani, a key adviser to the kingdom’s crown...

This blog has now ended

Members of the Kurdish militia named the People’s Protection Units (YPG) in Syria have killed a female refugee for protesting against the militia’s policy of separating children from their...

The Iraqi government is asking countries to pay €2 million ($2.18 million) for every foreign combatant tried on its territory, according to official documents, which Belgian magazine Knack reported...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared that Turkey has no choice but to act alone to form the new safe zone in north-eastern Syria due to delays caused...

Head of the Egyptian parliament Ali Abdel-Al has praised Adolf Hitler in a comment widely considered to be a comparison between the German dictator and President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi....

Before leaving New York last week, French President Emmanuel Macron made a failed last-minute push to get US President Donald Trump and Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to speak on...

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali said on Tuesday that no force could stop Ethiopia’s path towards prosperity. This came in a speech at the opening of a project...

UN special rapporteur on extrajudicial executions criticized Tuesday the Saudi government for “consistently” denying her finding that the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was an “extrajudicial execution”, reports...

More than 1,000 migrants and refugees have died in the Mediterranean Sea this year, the sixth year in a row that this “bleak milestone” has been reached, the United...

Daesh has conducted manoeuvres to make a resurgence in Syria today by besieging Russian and regime forces, attacking a prominent Kurdish militia and capturing a town in the east...

The Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Britain (AOHR) has said that “retired Libyan Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar bears full responsibility for the crime of abduction of the Libyan...

Turan Kışlakçı, head of the Turkish-Arab Media Association said that the association is working to buy the building of the Saudi Consulate General in Istanbul, where journalist Jamal Khashoggi...

Turkey will further strengthen its efforts to create a safe zone in northern Syria, said the country’s National Security Council on Monday, says Anadolu Agency. “Turkey will further strengthen...

New information has come to light after recordings of the brutal killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi were shared by the Turkish intelligence with two human rights lawyers, reports...