Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ordered the Turkish Air Force to strike 34 people in Uludere last year based on intelligence that there was...
Iran has started six days of naval drills in the Strait of Hormuz. The official IRNA news agency says the manoeuvres began early Friday,...
Why visit? Hell’s landscape is unrivalled. Its bottomless ravines, towering mountains and fiery floods have inspired artists for centuries. Pandemonium, the capital (formerly black...
TO MANY in the West, Hell is just a medieval relic. It went out with ducking stools and witchcraft. It should have disappeared with...
SNAKING their way from Kirkuk, a city 240 kilometres (150 miles) north of Baghdad, through Kurdistan and across Turkey’s eastern region of Anatolia to...
Ghaith Abdul-Ahad in Aleppo It wasn't the government that killed the Syrian rebel commander Abu Jameel. It was the fight for his loot. The...
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF BAHRAIN, one of America’s more repressive allies, tries to keep many journalists and human rights monitors out. I recently tried...
ATTEMPTS by British colonial authorities to cover up the killings of 11 prisoners during the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya have been laid bare...
Mali Sitting on the roof of his mud-walled compound on a hillside near Bamako, Amadou Maiga is dreaming of war. As the spokesman for...
The Arab Spring countries of North Africa are struggling to balance their secular and Islamic roots, but the leader of Tunisia’s ruling party thinks...
Iran CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan—Relations between Iran and the U.S. are poisonous, with one exception: an antidote for snake bites. In a surprising—and irony-rich—byproduct of...
Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Briefing on Syria, General Assembly 30 Nov 2012 - Briefing by Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, Joint Special Representative of the United Nations...
by Nezar AlSayyad President Mohammed Husni Morsi Tantawi Mubarak Over the course of the past two years, the Arab World celebrated the fall of...
“I salute all people of the Arab Spring, or Islamic winter, and I salute the Syrian people who seek freedom, democracy and reform.” Hamas...
Syrian rebels attacked army positions in the northern province of Aleppo on Saturday while Islamist fighters clashed with Kurdish militias on the border with...
Saleh Muslim, head of the Democratic Union Party (PYD) A party that controls much of Syria's Kurdish region on Tuesday rejected the new opposition...
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan should suspend the activities of NATO’s radar base in eastern Turkey if he is really sincere in his harsh...
By Ernesto Londoño, Karin Brulliard and Abigail Hauslohner, Updated: Sunday, November 18, 7:40 AM TEL AVIV — The Israeli military struck two buildings used...
In an assessment of Turkey's Middle East policy, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has said Ankara failed to understand the situation in Syria, misjudging the...
RABAT, Morocco — Dozens of Moroccan and foreign activists demonstrated Friday in front of a Rabat courthouse where a Guinean advocate for sub-Saharan migrants...
Throwing diplomacy out the window, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has criticized major world institutions, bashing both the United Nations and the International Monetary Fund (IMF)...
Assad: Erdogan thinks he's Caliph, new sultan of the Ottoman (EXCLUSIVE) . In an exclusive interview with RT, President Bashar Assad said that the...
Rebels firing on a man suspected of being a pro-government fighter in Idlib Province on Oct. 26. Syria's rebel fighters — who have long staked...
If you knew that more than 700 of your citizens might die soon, what would you do to stop it? That is the question...
A RECENT video showing a group of rebels kicking men, bound with ropes, before killing them has raised concerns about Syria’s opposition fighters. The...
Colin Powell endorses Barack Obama for president ...
Russia today accused Washington of "coordinating" deliveries of arms to Syrian rebels, despite assurances by the State Department that the United States provides no...
Protesters gathered in central Paris to mark fifty years since a deadly police crackdown on Algerian anti-war protesters, one of the darkest days in...
Fifty-one years to the day, French President François Hollande has recognised the October 17, 1961 massacre of Algerian protesters in Paris. Historian Jean-Luc Einaudi...
New evidence collected by Human Rights Watch implicates Misrata-based militias in the apparent execution of dozens of detainees following the capture and death of Muammar...
Regarding Turkey's foreign policy in the Middle East and particularly in Syria, Yaşar Yakış, a former minister of foreign affairs and the president of...
By DAVID E. SANGER WASHINGTON — Most of the arms shipped at the behest of Saudi Arabia and Qatar to supply Syrian rebel groups...
By F. William Engdahl On October 3, 2012 the Turkish military launched repeated mortar shellings inside Syrian territory. The military action, which was used...
By Elizabeth Dickinson It’s mid-afternoon as Al Anstey, managing director of Al Jazeera English, takes a brief respite from the news to recall a...
Main oppoisiton Republican People's Party (CHP) leader Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu slammed Turkey's foreign policy decisions today, calling Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu "an idiot," daily Hürriyet...
For the first time since European settlement the US does not have a Protestant majority, according to a study, with the number of Americans...
