U.S. President Donald Trump has said his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan 'very strongly informed” him that Turkey 'will eradicate whatever is left of” Daesh in Syria. In a Twitter post late Sunday in the U.S., Trump wrote: 'President...

Turkey's foreign minister said on Monday that the Israeli premier "lately seemed disturbed because he knows he couldn't divide Syria." Speaking at a news conference alongside his Tunisian counterpart Khemaies Jhinaoui, Mevlut Cavusoglu said Benjamin...

The YPG/PKK terrorist group has seized control of Hajin city, a major stronghold of the Daesh terrorist group in eastern Syria, according to local sources on Monday. YPG/PKK captured the city after 10 days of fierce clashes with Daesh terrorists, the sources...

World Bulletin / News DeskEgypt's prosecutor general on Monday ordered the arrest of five prominent political activists accused of inciting violence against President Mohamed Mursi's Muslim Brotherhood.Those ordered arrested included Ahmed Douma...

World Bulletin / News DeskBritain's MI5 spy chief will step down next month.Sir Jonathan Evans, appointed director general of the domestic intelligence service less than two years after the July 7 bombings, presided over an expansion anti-terrorism operations.A...

World Bulletin / News DeskRussian oligarch Boris Berezovsky, whose body was found in the locked bathroom of his luxury mansion near London over the weekend, died by hanging, British police said on Monday.An autopsy showed no signs of a violent struggle but...

World Bulletin / News DeskPrime Minister of Iraq's Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Nechirvan Barzani is set to hold talks with his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan late Monday -- a visit that comes after US Secretary of State John Kerry...

World Bulletin / News DeskArab nations and Turkey, helped by the CIA, have dramatically increased military aid to Syrian rebels in recent months, The New York Times reported Monday.The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency was helping their efforts, the newspaper...

World Bulletin / News DeskIsrael and Turkey have "a thousand reasons" to be on friendly terms again following an air-clearing apology over the deaths of nine Turks in a 2010 raid on a Gaza-bound flotilla, Israeli President Shimon Peres said on Turkish television...

World Bulletin / News DeskJordan closed its main border crossing with Syria on Monday after two days of fighting there between Syrian rebel fighters and Syrian troops, Jordan's information minister said."The border post is effectively closed because...

World Bulletin / News DeskMir Hazar Khan Khoso, the caretaker Prime Minister of the Pakistani interim government, on Monday took oath and began serving until the Pakistani elections of May 11.Khoso took oath in the presence of Pakistani President Asif Ali...

World Bulletin / News DeskAmbassadors of 17 Arab countries will be coming to Turkey's southern city of Mersin to attend an event, "Arab Union in Mersin", organized by Turkish-Arab Countries Businessmen's Association (TURAB).According to the written...

World Bulletin / News DeskA spokesman for Roman Abramovich denied a news report on Monday that the billionaire Russian owner of London's Chelsea soccer club had been arrested in the United States."It's not true," John Mann said in response to a...

World Bulletin / News DeskIsrael said on Monday it would restart regular monthly tax transfers to the Palestinian Authority, restoring vital funding days after U.S. President Barack Obama called for confidence-building steps toward peace.Israel began seizing...

World Bulletin / News DeskLibya's newly appointed Ambassador in Cairo Mohamed Fayez Jibril on Monday announced that the Libyan government would provide a financial assistance of two billion dollars to Egypt.Jibril told Anadolu Agency on Monday that the...

World Bulletin / News DeskFrancois Bozize, the former leader of Central African Republic toppled in coup on Sunday, is currently in Cameroon, according to a statement by Cameroon's presidency read on state radio on Monday."This is to inform the public...

World Bulletin / News DeskThe European Union said on Monday it would immediately suspend travel bans and asset freezes on most Zimbabwean firms and people on its sanctions list after Zimbabweans approved a new constitution curbing presidential powers."The...

World Bulletin / News DeskThe African Union has suspended the Central African Republic after rebels seized power, and also imposed travel bans and asset freezes on rebel leaders, a senior AU official said on Monday."The (Peace and Security) Council has decided...

World Bulletin / News DeskChief negotiator of the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Saeb Erekat has said the US demanded more time from the Palestinian government for a fresh beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli negotiations during US President Barack...

World Bulletin / News DeskTurkish Economy Minister Zafer Caglayan on Monday met with Deputy Premier, Economy and Finance Minister of Baden Wurttemberg state of Germany Dr. Nils Schmid in the Turkish capital of Ankara.Speaking to reporters while meeting Schmid,...

World Bulletin / News DeskPresident Vladimir Putin has instructed his government to negotiate the restructuring of a Russian bailout loan to Greek Cyprus, his spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday.The announcement signals Moscow's support for a 10 billion...

World Bulletin / News DeskThe Shura council in Egypt and the Turkish Parliament approved an agreement to activate a technical cooperation.After the approval of the agreement, Egypt's Local Development Minister Ali Beshir said, "The Turkish government...

World Bulletin / News DeskColonel Riad al-Asaad, founder of the rebel Free Syrian Army (FSA), lost a leg in an explosion in Syria overnight and is in Turkey for treatment, a Turkish official said on Monday.Asaad, who established the FSA in 2011 to fight for...

World Bulletin / News DeskU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry paid an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Monday for talks with President Hamid Karzai, a U.S. official said.Kerry and Karzai will discuss a host of issues including Afghan reconciliation, the...