The Syrian army will regain control of the country’s north by force if rebels there refuse to surrender, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview with Russian television channel...

Spanish coast guards rescued nearly 600 migrants trying to make the perilous crossing from Africa, authorities said on Saturday, while off the coast of Libya coastguards recovered bodies of...

British singer and actor Sting called world leaders “half men and cowards” on Saturday for their inability to solve the refugee crisis. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has already played...

Prominent Western media outlets intensify anti-Erdogan, anti-Turkey publications ahead of Sunday’s election

Libya’s UN-backed Presidential Council has confirmed the release of three Turkish nationals after 233 days in captivity in the southwestern town of Ubari. In a statement on Sunday, the...

Turkey’s Supreme Election Council head on Sunday said judicial, administrative and legal steps have been taken regarding election security concerns in a district of southeastern Sanliurfa province. Speaking to Anadolu...

The elderly and sick who could not make it to polling stations got a chance to vote at home for the first time in Turkish election history.

Turkish voters cast their ballots in parliamentary, presidential elections

A Syrian mother rejoined her two children in Turkey’s southeastern Sanliurfa province after a-three-year search with help from the Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH). Nur Naser was living with her...

Live blog covering the parliamentary and presidential elections in Turkey today. VIEW OUR FULL COVERAGE OF THE RESULTS >>...

The Iraqi Company for Passenger and Delegate Transport has announced that the land link between Baghdad and Istanbul has reopened after a break of 5 years, Anadolu has reported....

The Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) looks to have agreed to a 1 per cent increase in world oil production after believing that it has overcome differences...

As Turkey approaches the presidential and parliamentary elections this weekend, its economic challenges have dominated the headlines. Soaring inflation rates and a plunging lira have marked the country’s turbulent...

Base jumping in Erzurum, eastern Turkey

People use plastic bags to cover themselves as torrential rain hits Ankara, Turkey

Turkish President and the leader of the Justice and Development Party (AK Party) Recep Tayyip Erdogan delivers a speech during AK Party’s rally in Istanbul

Swedish activist Benjamin Ladraa has been visiting Palestinian refugees in camps around Lebanon as part of his #WalkToPalestine campaign. Ladraa has visited some seven refugee camps, including Burj El-Barajneh, Shatila, Dbayeh and Rashidieh. The 24-year-old expressed his shock at...

A Dutch state TV station has apologised twice following complaints from Jewish groups that its coverage was biased against Israel. According to Israeli sources, NOS, Netherlands’ main public broadcaster,...

A former Palestinian Minister of Health in the Gaza Strip has sent an open invitation to Britain’s Prince William to visit the besieged territory during his forthcoming tour of...

The Turkish government views Fethullah Gulen in the same light as the US regarded Al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Ladin, government spokesman Bekir Bozdag said. The remarks came as Ankara...

It is by no means certain who will be the occupant of Ankara’s Presidential Palace come Monday morning. There are no predictions by election pundits of a landslide win...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday has pledged a $100 million loan to the Kingdom of Jordan in order to help implement reforms required by the International Monetary Fund (IMF)....

The Board of Deputies of British Jews’ Chief Executive Gillian Merron on Tuesday attended an Israeli government-hosted conference intended to mobilise and strategise efforts to undermine and sabotage the...

Egypt will formally protest to FIFA about the performance of Paraguay referee Enrique Caceres whose decisions they feel prejudiced the outcome of their World Cup game against hosts Russia...

A war monitor reported Syrian military helicopters dropped barrel bombs on opposition-held areas of the southwest today for the first time in a year, escalating an assault that has...

The first time Talal Hasan met Omar Almahel they slept side by side on a piece of cardboard at a train station in Brussels. Not long after this the...

With Turkey’s elections fast approaching, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shed light on the new presidential system of government late Thursday. Speaking during a special joint live broadcast on Turkish...

Egypt has called on the international community to “share the collective responsibilities of hosting refugees,” Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Spokesman Ahmed Abu Zeid said on Wednesday. “We renew...

Denmark’s second largest political party, which has been likened by a former minister to the KKK, has taken US President Donald Trump’s lead and called for his country to...

A British MP has denounced Dubai’s attempt to promote an Oxford University research centre that does not exist as “disgraceful”. According to a press release issued by the government...

Students at the University of Cambridge protested a talk given by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Olmert at the Judge Business School on Wednesday night, denouncing the former leader...

A Libyan research centre has said that the crisis in Syria is one of the most pressing issues in Turkish politics at this time, Quds Press has reported. “Syria...