Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim yesterday said a fair trial would represent a harsher punishment for suspected coup plotters than the death penalty -- an apparent step back from threats to re-introduce capital punishment.

Russia used Iran as a base from which to launch air strikes against Syrian militants for the first time yesterday, widening its air campaign in Syria and deepening its involvement in the Middle East.

A Palestinian teenager was shot dead yesterday during clashes with Israeli forces at Fawwar refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.

Saudi soldiers on the front lines of the war in Yemen are getting a month's extra salary from King Salman. King Salman "has ordered

The Islamic State jihadist group yesterday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed more than 30 Syrian rebel fighters in a blast near the Turkish border.

Five people have been killed in the Philippines and tens of thousands have fled from floods caused by days of

Syrian and Russian warplanes have launched a wave of air strikes in northern Syria, killing dozens in areas held by a

More than 2,000 civilians held captive by IS as human shields have been freed after militants were driven out of a key stronghold in

Islamic State group fighters seized around 2,000 civilians to use as "human shields" Friday as they fled their stronghold of Manbij in

Islamic State group fighters seize around 2,000 civilians to use as "human shields" Friday as they fled their stronghold of Manbij in northern Syria, according to US-backed forces and a monitor.

The UN yesterday said it was investigating evidence of a toxic gas attack on a rebel-held area of the Syrian city of Aleppo which killed 4 people including a mother and her 3 children.

Pro-government forces yesterday battled to clear the Islamic State group from its main Libyan stronghold of Sirte,

Fighting raged yesterday in Helmand after Afghanistan rushed military reinforcements to beat back Taliban

Fresh fighting hit Syria's Aleppo yesterday, the first day of a promised Russian aid window the UN said was

Doctors in rebel-held districts of Aleppo have made an urgent plea to US President Barack Obama to take action to help civilians following repeated atrocities in the devastated Syrian city.

A Palestinian man stabbed and wounded a young Jewish man in Jerusalem yesterday before fleeing, in what Israeli

About 45,000 jihadists have been killed in Iraq and Syria since the US-led operation to defeat the Islamic State group began two years ago, a top general said yesterday.

Afghanistan rushed military reinforcements to Helmand as Taliban insurgents closed in on the besieged capital of the southern

A fire tore through the maternity ward of one of Baghdad's largest hospitalsyesterday, killing at least 12 premature babies,

The Philippines' President Rodrigo Duterte has sparked a fresh diplomatic row with his colourful language, calling the