BRUSSELS – Turkey’s prime minister, responding to the downing of a Turkish jet by Syrian forces, said Tuesday that Turkish military will respond to any future violation of its border by Syrian military elements....
A second Turkish plane has been shot at by Syria, Turkey’s deputy prime minister said, as it was searching for the wreckage of a fighter jet downed by Syria last week. Bulent Arinc told...
(Reuters) – Syria described its shooting down of a Turkish warplane as an act of self-defense and warned Turkey and its NATO allies against any retaliatory measures. In shell-shattered districts of Homs, heart of a 16-month-old...
Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, says he expects future cooperation with Mohammed Morsi, the new Islamist president-elect of Egypt. In a meeting with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, Mr Netanyahu said: “We expect...
Russian President Vladimir Putin is beginning his first Middle East tour in seven years with a trip to Israel. Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the continuing crisis in Syria are expected to top the agenda...
Amine El Khalifi, a 29-year-old resident of Alexandria, Va., pleaded guilty today in federal court in the Eastern District of Virginia in connection with his efforts to carry out a suicide bomb attack on...
Syrian air defences “shot down” the Turkish jet fighter that went missing while on patrol near the border between the two countries on Friday, according to local television reports. Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish...
(Reuters) – Elite Afghan police backed by NATO forces ended a 12-hour siege on Friday at a popular lakeside hotel outside Kabul, leaving at least 20 dead after Taliban gunmen stormed the lakeside building,...
(Reuters) – Egypt’s political upheaval is by no means over, but its uneasy neighbor Israel is not waiting for the outcome. Desert defenses are being strengthened and strategy revised as a once stable relationship...
(Reuters) – Pakistan’s increasingly assertive Supreme Court on Tuesday declared Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani ineligible for office, plunging the country into fresh political turmoil during one of the worst crises in relations with...
