Middle East

Smoke rises after a rocket landed in the middle of the Iraqi rapid response forces’ position during a battle against Islamic State militants in the south of Mosul, Iraq February …

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met secretly a year ago with the leaders of Egypt and Jordan in a failed attempt by the Obama administration to …

Forensics and police officers work on the blast scene after Friday’s explosion outside a housing complex in the southeastern Turkish town of Viransehir Turkish authorities detained 26 people over a …

Workers attend a groundbreaking ceremony of Taksim mosque in Istanbul Construction began on Friday of a mosque in Istanbul’s central Taksim square, a controversial project championed by Turkey‘s President Tayyip …

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson (left) and Turkey’s Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu talk before an opening session meeting of G-20 foreign ministers at the World Conference Centre US Secretary …

A car packed with explosives blew up on Thursday in southern Baghdad, killing at least 51 people and wounding 55, security and medical sources said, in the deadliest such attack …

Russian soldiers and civilians walk along a street in Aleppo The Syrian opposition wants face-to-face negotiations with the government about a political transition at peace talks that are due to …

A suicide bomber attacked a van carrying judges in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Wednesday, killing the driver and a passerby, police said, the second attack of the day …

The Iraqi Air Force carried out a strike on a house where Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was thought to be meeting  other …

REUTERS photo Nearly 70 fighters from two formerly allied jihadist groups have been killed during infighting over the past 24 hours in northern Syria, a monitor said on Feb. 14. …