PM Davutoglu to visit Azerbaijan. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu will pay his second official visit as Prime Minister to Azerbaijan. Davutoglu will leave for Baku tonight and start his contacts on Friday.

French President Francois Hollande on Thursday indicated that French airstrikes against ISIL extremists in support of Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces would take place in “a short time-frame” but would be limited to Iraqi territory. “Reconnaissance flights have already taken place as of Monday. Others took place today from our …

Turkish Minister of EU Affairs Volkan Bozkir announced Thursday the new European Union Strategy aiming to eliminate the obstacles on Turkey’s path to the EU membership by accelerating the dynamics of Turkey-EU

President Barack Obama reaffirmed Thursday the US commitment to helping Ukraine address its security and economic problems. In addition to supporting Ukraine through security and economic assistance, the United States will continue to help mobilize the international community toward a diplomatic solution to Russian aggression in Ukraine, he

Tunisian police killed an Islamist militant during clashes near the Algerian border, the interior ministry said on Wednesday, after the government raised the security alert level before elections next month.

Egypt has moved to close down one of the last bastions of Muslim Brotherhood dissent with sweeping new rules to curtail violent protest at Al Azhar University, among the world’s most venerable centres of Islamic learning. Egypt has banned the Muslim Brotherhood and jailed thousands of its supporters since July …

Jihadists from the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) using heavy weapons have seized a string of villages around Kobane, also known as Ain al-Arab, as they close in on Syria’s third largest Kurdish town, a monitor said Sept. 18. “ISIL fighters have seized at least 21 villages …

China has called for a negotiated resolution of the border issue with India, shifting the focus on the root cause of problem, following the latest incidents in Chumar and Demchok, along the Line of Actual Control (LAC). Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei said during his regular briefing on Thursday …

Russia has threatened to send more troops to its newly-annexed territory of Crimea, after NATO began exercises in western Ukraine. Russia’s defence minister Sergei Shoigu said the escalation of tensions in Ukraine and the presence of foreign military near Russia’s borders made the deployment of troops a top priority in …

NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen Tuesday said NATO does not recognise the reported elections held on 14 September in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, Ukraine.