Middle East

A helicopter carrying high-level business executives crashed onto a Turkish highway on Friday, killing five people on board, after it hit a television tower in an outlying district of Istanbul, …

Iraqi rapid response members move from house to house through a hole in a wall to avoid being hit by Islamic State snipers in western Mosul Iraqi forces aim to …

German Chancellor Merkel reacts in Berlin Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkey to stop invoking Berlin’s Nazi past in criticising cancellations of Turkish ministers’ rallies in Germany, and said she would …

File photo: Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) fighters gather during an offensive against Islamic State militants in northern Raqqa province A US Marines artillery unit was deployed to Syria in recent …

Displaced Iraqis flee their homes as Iraqi forces battle with Islamic State militants in western Mosul Iraqi forces saw off an overnight Islamic State counter-attack near Mosul’s main government building …

The minaret of a mosque is seen in the Palestinian neighbourhood of Beit Safafa in Jerusalem A law to muffle mosques’ amplified calls to prayer in Israel and occupied East …

An executive editor of private broadcaster Channel 5 fainted during a live broadcast on state-run TRT News on March 7. Ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) lawmaker Mehdi Eker was …

Russia does not think the Astana talks on Syria may substitute for the Geneva process, presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov has told Russian agency TASS. “It is an integral process,” Peskov …

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu speaks from a balcony during an election campaign rally for the upcoming Turkish referendum in Hamburg, Germany Turkey’s foreign minister accused Berlin on Tuesday of …

The Syrian army and its allies have captured the main water pumping station that supplies Aleppo in a sweeping advance against Islamic State that has brought them to the bank …