Turkish security forces killed 3,100 Kurdish militants in 2015, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday, vowing no let-up in a relentless offensive to oust rebels from towns and mountains in the south-east. His remarks, which

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Iran accused the United States of lying Thursday about alleged test-firing of rockets near an American warship and anger rose in Tehran at the spectre of new sanctions from Washington. Iran's Revolutionary Guards denied that

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A Japanese research team has been granted the right to name new element 113, the first on the periodic table to be named by Asian scientists, the team's institute said Thursday. Japan's Riken Institute said

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Sidney Mintz, a renowned American scholar credited with creating the field of "food anthropology," died this week at the age of 93, US media reported on Thursday. Mintz, who died after sustaining serious injuries in

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A former Serb member of Bosnia's tripartite presidency has been charged with crimes against humanity and war crimes against Croats and Muslims in the 1992-1995 war, a Bosnian prosecutor said on Thursday. The 72-year old

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Stormy weather buffeting the North Sea brought havoc to oilfields with one man on Thursday reported killed by a giant wave hitting a rig, and hundreds of workers evacuated after a huge barge broke its

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife arrived at a police station Thursday for questioning over allegations the couple used public funds on purchases and repairs for their private home, an AFP photographer said. Sara Netanyahu

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A Palestinian drove his car into Israeli forces in the northern West Bank on Thursday before being shot dead, the Israeli army said. "A Palestinian attacker rammed his vehicle into forces securing routes near Huwara

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More than 55,000 people were killed in Syria in 2015, the country's fifth year of war, including over 2,500 children, a monitor said Thursday. The total number of dead since the beginning of the conflict

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Twitter said Thursday it was restoring access to deleted tweets from politicians, saying it would help "bring more transparency to public dialogue." Earlier this year, the US messaging platform had blocked access to the deleted

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