Turkish fighter jets have killed five outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) militants in northern Iraq, the military said on Oct. 18.
A Spanish court has ordered two powerful Catalan separatists to be detained, threatening a further escalation of the political crisis on Oct. 17 as both sides refuse to budge in their high-stakes standoff over the region’s independence bid.
Daphne Caruana Galizia, Malta's best-known investigative journalist, was killed on Oct. 17 when a powerful bomb blew up her car, police said, in a case that stunned the small Mediterranean island.
Hamas warned on Oct. 17 that Palestinian President Mahmud Abbas's delay in easing sanctions on Gaza was putting at risk a landmark unity deal signed last week.
Freed hostage Joshua Boyle has told public broadcaster CBC his children are exploring their new home in Canada but are still very fearful after a brutal years-long ordeal at the hands of Taliban-linked kidnappers.
Spain has said it will not extradite a German-Turkish author accused by Turkey of “terrorism,” weeks after freeing a journalist wanted by Ankara.
Syria has demanded the “immediate and unconditional withdrawal” of Turkish troops that have deployed in the country’s northwestern province of Idlib, state media reported on Oct. 14, citing a Foreign Ministry source.
At least four people were killed on Oct. 14 when a propeller-engine cargo plane crashed in the sea near the international airport in Ivory Coast's main city, Abidjan, a Reuters witness said.
The EU leaders will have an open debate next week on future relations with Turkey, but would not take any formal decision, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Oct. 14.
Clashes erupted between a Shiite militia group Hashd al-Shaabi's Turkmen unit and Peshmerga forces in northern Iraq's Saladin province, a state official said on Oct. 13.
President Donald Trump struck a blow against the 2015 Iran nuclear deal on Oct. 13, defying both U.S. allies and adversaries by refusing to formally certify that Tehran is complying with the accord even though international inspectors say it is.
Kurdish authorities have sent thousands more troops to the oil region of Kirkuk to confront “threats” from Iraq’s central government, the vice president of the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) region said on Oct. 13.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Oct. 13 urged the United States and Turkey to “sit down and find solutions” to the crisis in relations between the two key alliance members.
The Turkish military announced on Oct. 13 that its elements began forming monitoring spots in Syria’s Idlib province as part of efforts to create a “de-escalation zone” to end the Syrian war.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said on Oct. 13 that no one had the right to question Turkey’s actions regarding developments on its border, particularly the military operation in Syria’s Idlib province.
The United States and South Korea will kick off a major navy drill next week, the U.S. navy said Oct. 13, a fresh show of force against North Korea over its missile and nuclear tests.
