Twelve days of protests have shaken the clerical authorities under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei already battling economic crisis after years of s...

Following Israeli airstrikes, Iranian authorities have shifted focus from a ceasefire to internal security, initiating mass arrests and mil...

Outlawed Kurdish militants have declared a ceasefire with Turkey, adhering to PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan's call to disband and end decades ...

In an earlier statement, Syria's military said that drones laden with explosives targeted the ceremony packed with young officers and their...

The ultimate political survivor, Erdogan, 69, has overcome jail and a bloody 2016 coup attempt to emerge as Turkey's most important leader ...

Citing manipulation in the reporting of early results in previous elections, Istanbul's opposition mayor Ekrem Imamoglu said on TV that no ...

The Hagia Sophia was built as a Byzantine cathedral -- once the world's largest -- before being transformed into a mosque by the Ottomans. ...

Amini, 22, from the northwestern Kurdish city of Saqez, was arrested on Sept. 13 in Tehran for "unsuitable attire" by the morality police w...

Turkey's approval of Finland and Sweden's application to join the Western military alliance is crucial because NATO makes decisions by cons...

Erdogan is willing to move "Turkey's ongoing military confrontation with the PKK from Turkey to territory the PKK controls or transits thro...

Assad, with the help of Russia and Iran-backed forces, has all but crushed a mainly Sunni Muslim armed opposition that evolved from peacefu...

Iran has repeatedly threatened to destroy U.S. military bases across the Middle East and target Israel within minutes if attacked by the Un...

A crowd of President Erdogan's supporters chanted his name as he emerged from a school after voting in Turkey's largest city Istanbul.

In an already frail region that is dealing with terror groups and a massive refugee crisis the instability in Turkey poses an unnecessary c...

Thousands mourned the 95 victims of Turkey's deadliest attack in years as state inspectors tried Sunday to identify who sent suicide bomber...

This supermajority would allow the AKP, under Erdogan's guidance, to launch a referendum aimed at changing the Turkish constitution.

Germany has ruled out participation in air strikes or any other ground offensive against the Islamic State militants in Iraq.