Europe & Russia

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called on Friday for a no-fly zone and secure area on Syria and stressed the importance of determining who Turkey's partners will be to...

Davutoglu announces that the figure has reached 160,335 since Turkey opened the border crossing last Friday. A total of 160,335 Syrian Kurds have fled to Turkey in the last...

Hidden away in some dusty corner in government vaults in London there must be a well-thumbed dossier containing secret evidence which kept a Palestinian caged in Britain without charge...

Today, Friday 26 September, the House of Commons is slated to take yet another vote on yet another war in Iraq. This time, the putative bombing campaign (already started...

Turkey has denied claims published in the German newspaper Die Welt that Ankara is seeking to acquire nuclear weapons, the country's foreign ministry spokesman Tanju Bilgic said yesterday. In...

The Russell Tribunal on Palestine's Emergency Session on Israel's Operation Protective Edge held yesterday in Brussels has found evidence of war crimes, crimes against humanity, crimes of murder, extermination...

In a first such meeting since 1979, British Prime Minister David Cameron sought yesterday Iranian cooperation from President Hassan Rouhani against the Islamic State (ISIS), a Downing Street spokesman...

During a press conference on Wednesday, Matthew Lodge, the British ambassador to Kuwait, said that his country bears responsibility for defending Kuwait and its allies against any threat launched...

Turkey is ready to provide $200 million to finance development projects in Tunisia, the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said. The announcement came in a meeting, held in New...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticised the UN on Wednesday for legitimising the military coup in Egypt and supporting its perpetrator Abdul-Fattah Al-Sisi, Al-Amat Online reported. The democratically elected...

Launching a new funding appeal for the Gaza Strip, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Geneva has declared that the "civilian casualty toll" and "extent of...

France and Britain are considered to be the most prominent European allies of the US-led international coalition against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria and were among the...

A London-based Muslim Brotherhood leader on Wednesday denied reports that his group had received a donation from the British government. Mohamed Soudan, foreign relations chief for the Brotherhood's Freedom...

Russia's Foreign Ministry criticised the airstrikes led by the US in cooperation with other countries that targeted the Islamic State (ISIS) organisation in Syria. According to the Anadolu news...

A spokesperson for the High Commissioner for Refugees at the UN, Melissa Fleming, revealed that "Turkey received 138,000 refugees in three days, which is equivalent to what was received...

At the Labour party conference in Manchester, the party's leader Ed Miliband confirmed his support for a UN Security Council resolution regarding military strikes on Islamic State targets in...

Danish Foreign Minister Martin Lidegaard yesterday called for "taking new steps, including changes to our trade relations with Israel" in order to force it to make concessions in its...

An Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate group yesterday claimed responsibility for the kidnapping of a Frenchman in an area to the east of Algiers, calling on the French President Francois...

The King of Bahrain, King Hamad bin Isa Al-Khalifa, received British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon and Chief of Defence Staff General Sir Nick Houghton on Monday at the Safriya...

Turkey warned the international community that the former Iraq government's exclusion of Sunni's would lead to problems in the region, said Turkey's Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu Monday evening in...

Sources that are following closely the situation of the Lebanese military officers who were kidnapped by the Islamic State and Al-Nusra Front in Syria have revealed that the Lebanese...

Two British human rights workers have finally made it back to the UK following their unexpected stay with the Qatari security services. They were arrested while investigating abuses against...

No ransom was paid to release the Turkish hostages held by Islamic State (ISIS) militants, the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said yesterday. At a press conference held in...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov called on US Secretary of State John Kerry to respect Syria's sovereignty in the fight against the Islamic State in Syria. The Russian Foreign...

Over 60,000 Syrian refugees arrived into Turkey as the Islamic State seized control of the majority of Kurdish villages and continue its progress towards the city of Ain Arab...

The Turkish army is preparing to create a buffer zone in northern Syria to receive the refugees who fled the ISIS advances, which has now controlled 60 Kurdish villages...

The British Ambassador in Amman, Peter Millett said during a lecture hosted by the Faculty of Prince Hussein Bin Abdullah II for International Studies at the University of Jordan...

A foreign ministry source says the National Intelligence Organization operation to free the Turkish hostages in Mosul followed careful planning and analysis of other ISIL kidnapping cases. The operation...

Egyptian authorities have barred Palestinians seeking to travel to Turkey, Qatar and four other countries from leaving the Gaza Strip via the Rafah crossing, a Palestinian official said Saturday....

France has launched its first aerial strike against Islamic State (ISIS) positions in Iraq, the office of the French president said in a statement today. The attack destroyed a...

One of the two Austrian teenage girls who fled their homes to join the Islamic State in northern Syria has reportedly been killed. Samra Kesinovic, 16, and her friend...

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday denied media reports accusing Ankara of having trade relations with the Islamic State (ISIS) which controls large areas of Iraq and Syria, stressing...