Turkey will attack militants with tanks and soldiers soon, President Tayyip Erdogan said, signalling a possible ground offensive against a Kurdish militia in Syria after retaliatory strikes escalated along the Syrian border..His comments came as Turkish artillery kept up bombardment of Kur

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan yesterday threatened to launch a ground operation into Syria after cross-border air strikes on Kurdish positions and deadly fire on Turkey.

The Israeli army carried out an arrest raid on a flashpoint town in the occupied West Bank on Monday, touching off confrontations in which medics said its troops shot dead a Palestinian high-schooler.

Iran has arrested two prominent actors who expressed solidarity with the protest movement and removed their headscarves in public in an apparent act of defiance against the regime, state media reported Sunday..Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi were both detained after being summoned by

Turkish air strikes overnight killed at least 31 people in northern Syria, primarily in positions held by Syrian Kurdish forces, a Britain-based war

Countries adopted a hard-fought final agreement at the COP27 climate summit early yesterday that sets up a fund to help poor countries being battered by climate disasters - but does not boost efforts to tackle the emissions causing them.

Turkish air raids hit several towns across northern Syria late Saturday, US-backed Kurdish-led forces and a war monitor said.

Countries were considering a draft for a final COP27 climate deal yesterday, with some negotiators saying they were close to a breakthrough in contentious efforts to compensate poor nations already burdened by costly climate impacts.

Four Syrian soldiers were killed and one wounded in Israeli “air aggression” on some military posts in the coastal and central region of Syria yesterday morning, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.

Four Syrian soldiers were killed and one wounded in Israeli "air aggression" on some military posts in the coastal and central region of Syria on Saturday morning, Syrian state news agency SANA reported.

UN climate talks that were supposed to end yesterday were extended by a day in an effort to break a deadlock over creating a fund for developing countries devastated by the fallout from global warming.

The Biden administration ruled on Thursday that Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has immunity from a lawsuit over the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, drawing immediate condemnation from the slain journalist’s former fiancee.

Thousands of Palestinians turned out yesterday for the funeral of 21 people who died in a Gaza Strip apartment building fire, an AFP correspondent said.

Assailants on motorbikes shot dead nine people, including a woman and two children, during protests in two separate attacks in southern Iran, state media said yesterday.

More than 150 countries have now signed up to a global pact to reduce methane emissions, some 50 more than signed on when the initiative launched last year, the United States and European Union announced yesterday.

Iranian football player Alireza Jahanbakhsh said on Thursday that the focus of the team at the World Cup in Qatar will be on the competition, not political issues related to the nationwide protests in his country.

The first draft of a deal being hashed out at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt would keep a target of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius but left many of the most contentious issues in the talks unresolved ahead of a deadline.

Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abollahian yesterday accused Israel and its Western allies of plotting a “civil war” in the protest-hit Islamic republic.

Assailants on motorbikes shot dead nine people, including a woman and two children, during protests in two separate attacks in southern Iran, state media said on Thursday.

At least five people were killed when "terrorist elements" shot at protesters and security forces in Iran's southwestern Khuzestan province, state media said Wednesday, citing an unidentified official.