Children look at seized weapons from the Islamic State group on September 6, 2015 in Kobane, northern Syria. AFP, Yasin Akgul Qamishli, Syria:...
Children look at seized weapons from the Islamic State group on September 6, 2015 in Kobane, northern Syria. AFP, Yasin Akgul Qamishli, Syria:...
Refugee children at a camp near the Turkish border crossing on February 6, 2016 in Bab-Al Salam, near Azaz in northern Syria. AFP,...
Jerusalem: The Israeli army Saturday said it was lifting a blockade imposed on the West Bank town of Qabatiya, from where Palestinians carried...
President Hafez al-Asad with his family in the early 1970s. From left to right: Bashar, Maher, Mrs Anisa Makhlouf (the then new First...
One of the trenches dug along the Libyan border, near the Ras Jedir crossing point on February 6, 2016 that is part of...
Haitham Ismail Mohammed, 14-year-old Hebron: Israeli occupation soldiers killed a 14-year-old Palestinian and detained another young boy in the occupied West Bank town...
Iranian women wait in line outside a polling station during the Iranian presidential election in Tehran. (file photo) Tehran: Iran has approved an...
Damascus: Syria's government warned Saturday against any foreign ground intervention in its war after reports that Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which both support...
Ramallah: Palestinian Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah on Saturday condenmed the "collective punishment" imposed by Israel on residents of Qabatiya, blockaded for the third...
Mogadishu: Somali government troops and African Union peacekeepers on Saturday recaptured the key port of Merka from Shebab insurgents, just one day after...
Oncupinar, Turkey: Turkey was preparing Saturday for a new influx of refugees fleeing a major offensive by Syria's Russian-backed regime, with tens of...
The loss of the Somali port of Merka to Shebab insurgents is one of the biggest setbacks for the African Union force in...
File picture of Jalal Baleedi, who was killed by drone strike in Yemen DUBAI: Al Qaeda's branch in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) mourned...
Syrian refugees wait behind the border fence to cross into Turkey on the Turkish-Syrian border, near the southeastern town of Akcakale in Sanliurfa...
Representative image Arbil, Iraq: A fire at a hotel in the capital of Iraq's autonomous Kurdish region killed 19 people and injured dozens...
Can Dundar Istanbul: Two Turkish opposition journalists accused of espionage and trying to overthrow the government in a case that has caused global...
Washington: The Pentagon on Friday welcomed Saudi Arabia's pledge to commit ground forces to fight Islamic State jihadists in Syria, should the US-led...
The Hague: Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte will meet his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu next week seeking to firm up plans to tackle...