Two Turkish soldiers were killed and at least two dozen other troops were wounded early yesterday in a suicide attack blamed on Kurdish militants, as Ankara kept up its air campaign against the rebels' bases in northern Iraq.

The United Arab Emirates is to try 41 people for allegedly seeking to overthrow the government to set up an Islamic State group-style caliphate in the Gulf state, prosecutors said yesterday.

US Secretary of State John Kerry sought to assure Middle East allies that the Iran nuclear deal would make them safer, as he began a regional tour in the Egyptian capital yesterday.

Nearly 40 government and opposition fighters have been killed as Syrian regime forces pushed rebels back from an area bordering

Yemeni Prime Minister Khaled Bahah flew into the southern port of Aden from exile in Saudi Arabia yesterday, after pro-government forces

Kurdish rebels of the PKK should take their war with Ankara out of Iraqi Kurdistan to prevent Turkish air strikes from causing civilian

The ISIS is preparing to attack India to provoke an Armageddon-like confrontation with the US, according to an internal recruitment document of the feared group which also seeks to unite the Pakistani and Afghan Taliban into a single army of terror.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday approved the "immediate" construction of 300 settler homes in the occupied West Bank as his government

Amnesty International has accused Israeli forces of war crimes during a day of “carnage” in the Gaza Strip that has been named Black Friday.

The Saudi-led coalition fighting rebels in Yemen suspended its air war yesterday to allow desperately needed aid deliveries, although

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad acknowledged the shrinking ranks of his government's army in a rare public speech yesterday, but

The Turkish army yesterday blamed PKK militants for a deadly car bomb attack that killed two of its soldiers in the Kurdish-dominated

Pro-government forces battled retreating rebels on the northern outskirts of Yemen's second city of Aden yesterday ahead of a

A United States air strike in Afghanistan killed a senior Al Qaeda commander in charge of suicide bombing and two other militants, the Pentagon says.

Turkish planes have for the first time carried out air strikes against Islamic State (IS) group targets in Syria.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday said after world powers reached a historic nuclear deal with Iran that Israel was not bound

Saudi-led warplanes bombed Yemeni rebels who clashed with pro-government fighters in the south despite a UN-declared truce aimed

The Islamic State group yesterday claimed a string of bomb attacks that killed at least 23 people in the Iraqi capital Baghdad. In a

A UN Yemen truce aimed at delivering desperately needed aid to millions threatened with famine failed to take hold yesterday as

A car bomb outside Italy's consulate in Cairo yesterday killed one person, the first attack on a foreign mission since jihadists began a