Freezing weather conditions and snowfall in the devastated region have increased the difficulties for rescue workers. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has declared seven days of...
Snow, rain and freezing conditions impede search and rescue operations as the quake death toll surpasses 3,000. Bad weather is hampering rescue efforts after a magnitude 7.8...
Rescue efforts after magnitude 7.8 and 7.6 tremors complicated by severe winter conditions. Powerful earthquakes and their aftershocks have killed some 2,600 people and injured thousands...
Presidents Erdogan and Putin enjoy a warm relationship Erdogan’s comments come as Russia calls for restraint, despite understanding Turkey’s “security concerns”. The Turkish President Recep Tayyip...
Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the air raids were aimed at pro-Iranian groups Air raids were aimed at pro-Iranian groups in Homs and Hama provinces,...
Israel has carried out hundreds of attacks on government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years but rarely acknowledges or discusses such operations Attack hits Shayrat Airbase...
This satellite photo released by Planet Labs PBC shows the damage after an Israeli strike targeted the Aleppo airport on September 1 An Israeli missile attack...
Shamima Begum joined ISIL when she was 15 years old An official inquiry is demanded after a new book suggests the UK covered up Canadian intelligence...
Syria is the Middle East’s main producer of the drug Captagon and Saudi Arabia is the main consumer market. Iraqi security forces seized more than six...
Israel has staged hundreds of attacks on targets in government-controlled Syria over the years, but rarely acknowledged or discussed such operations State media say the...
Israel did not comment on the attack and rarely acknowledges such operations but it has launched hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria...
New York Times investigation finds that up to 64 women and children may have been killed in the March 2019 air raids. The US military covered...
Unrest breaks out in Ankara after a Turkish national was stabbed to death in a fight between locals and migrants. The Turkish police have detained dozens...
The US has designated Kataib Hezbollah a terrorist organisation since 2009 The US has carried out air strikes against Iran-backed militia groups in the Iraq-Syria border...
The strike was the first military action undertaken by the Biden administration The US has carried out an air strike targeting Iran-backed militias in Syria, in...
Syrian authorities believe they have found the body of a top archaeologist who was killed by the Islamic State (IS) group in 2015 while he tried...
Two gunmen killed 12 people in an attack on the magazine’s office in 2015 Fourteen people are on trial in France over the deadly attack on...
The strikes were in retaliation for a rocket attack on an Iraqi base in Kirkuk The US has conducted air strikes against Iranian-backed paramilitaries in...
Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed himself after US special forces found him in north-west Syria The Islamic State (IS) group has confirmed the death of...
Baghdadi announced the creation of a “caliphate” from Mosul in 2014 The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) say their spy stole Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s underwear...