A Tripoli court will decide October 24 whether to indict more than 20 senior figures from Moammar Gadhafi’s regime charged with killing protesters during the 2011 revolt that toppled him. The officials include Gadhafi’s once high-profile son Seif al-Islam — who was unable to attend because he is being held by

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad warned Turkey it would “pay dearly” for supporting rebels fighting to overthrow his regime, in an interview broadcast Friday on Turkish television. “In the near future these terrorists will have an impact on Turkey. And Turkey will pay very dearly for its contribution,” al-Assad told the …

Turkey has promised to tighten the control of its border with Bulgaria amid the ongoing influx of Syrian refugees to the EU member state, according to Bulgarian Interior Minister Tsvetlin Yovchev. “I met with the Turkish Interior Minister. Turkey has made a commitment to tighten the measures along