Abdullah Ocalan is expected to urge his men to lay down their arms and end a more than 40-year insurgency against the Turkish state, capping talks launched in April last year between the rebel leader, ...

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Fifteen NGOs call for oversight and reform of Arab Interior Ministers Council as cases of politically motivated extraditions rise ...

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The European Union is set to lift some sanctions on Syria related to energy, financial transactions and transport next week, a draft document viewed by The National shows. The legal text is to be ...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plans to visit Turkey next week as part of his regional tour, sources familiar with ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's ruling AK Party submitted to parliament on Thursday a climate change-related bill envisaging the establishment of a carbon market board and an emissions trading ...

Dubai, United Arabi Emirates – The Starbucks Foundation and Alshaya Group, a longstanding Starbucks licensee in the Middle ...

Israeli observers offer contrasting outlooks on whether Russia will—or should, from Israel's perspective—retain its foothold in Syria.

An Istanbul court banned on Thursday international travel by two key executives of Turkey's top business association in an investigation of their remarks on democracy that President Tayyip Erdogan ...