Middle East
Turkish forces kill 32 Kurdish militants as conflict escalates
Security forces killed 32 Kurdish militants in Turkey\'s mainly Kurdish southeast at the weekend, army and security sources said on Sunday, escalating ...Saudi executes Ethiopian woman for axe murder
Saudi authorities on Sunday executed an Ethiopian woman convicted of murdering a Saudi female with an axe, the 50th death sentence carried ...Air strike kills 39 in Syria as U.N. envoy visits Damascus
An air strike reportedly killed dozens of people in a rebel-held town in Syria on Saturday as a U.N. envoy visited Damascus ...Syrian regime agrees to allow food aid into besieged Madaya
The Syrian government has agreed to allow humanitarian assistance into three beleaguered villages following reports of deaths from malnutrition in that part ...Qatar recalls ambassador to Iran
Qatar has recalled its ambassador to Iran following an attack on the Saudi Arabian embassy in Tehran, state media in Doha said ...Kuwait recalls envoy to Iran after attacks on Saudi missions
Kuwait became Tuesday the latest Gulf Arab state to recall its ambassador from Iran to protest attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in ...Bahrain joins Saudi Arabia and severs diplomatic ties with Iran
Bahrain said Monday it is cutting diplomatic ties with Iran, following the suit of its ally Saudi Arabia as tensions escalate over ...Two Sunni mosques bombed, muezzin killed in Iraq
Blasts rocked two Sunni mosques in central Iraq Monday, amid fears of renewed sectarian strife following Saudi Arabia\'s execution of a prominent ...Two Israelis charged over murder of Palestinian family
A court charged two Israelis on Sunday over a firebombing last year that killed a Palestinian couple and their toddler, in an ...Syrian rebel group says exits Islamist alliance to refocus fight
A Syrian insurgent group said on Sunday it was pulling out of a coalition of Islamist factions operating in the northwest of ...




