Moscow is hosting a series of negotiations on Monday to find a solution the Libya crisis. The top diplomats and defense chiefs of Russia and Turkey gathered in the Russian capital to assist the talks between Fayez al-Sarraj, the head of Libya's UN-recognized government in Tripoli, and Khalifa Haftar, eastern Libya-based military commander.

World and regional leaders, many at odds with one another, met Oman's new ruler on Sunday to offer condolences for the death of Sultan Qaboos whose quiet diplomacy during five decades in power helped calm regional turbulence.The rulers of Qatar and the United Arab Emirate, which are locked in a protracted dispute, were among those who visited the royal palace in Muscat as was the foreign minister of Iran, which is an arch-foe of U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

Turkey launched Operation Kapan-3 to eliminate terrorists in the country's southeast, the Interior Ministry announced on Monday.

Turkish women's volleyball team qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics by defeating Germany 3-0 in CEV European qualification final on Sunday. With this win, Turkish women's volleyball team booked their ticket to the Olympic Games for the second time.

Protests erupted across Iran for a second day on Sunday, increasing pressure on the Islamic Republic's leadership after it admitted its military shot down a Ukrainian airliner by accident, despite days of denials that Iranian forces were to blame.

Various shots of the flock on snow covered path during winter season at Beysehir district of central Konya province, Turkey on January 10, 2020.

Families' sit-in protest in front of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) office in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir province continues on January 11, 2020 as they hope to reunite with their children kidnapped by the YPG/PKK terror group. It was 129 days ago when a woeful mother started a sit-in protest against the YPG/PKK terror group in southeastern Turkey and it later snowballed.

Turkish Presidency Spokesperson Ibrahim Kalin meets U.S. Special Representative for Syria, James Jeffrey at Dolmabahce Office in Istanbul, Turkey on January 11, 2020.

Turkish Environment and Urbanization Minister Murat Kurum meets Albanian President Ilir Meta in Tirana on January 10, 2020.

President Donald Trump said on Friday Iran probably had targeted the U.S. embassy in Baghdad and was aiming to attack four U.S. embassies when its top general, Qassem Soleimani, was killed in a U.S. drone strike. 'We will tell you probably it was going to be the embassy in Baghdad,' Trump said in a clip of an interview on Fox News. 'I can reveal that I believe it would have been four embassies.'

Various shots of the demonstration against eastern military commander Khalifa Haftar, who is based in the east of the country, and in support of the UN-recognised government of national accord (GNA) in Tripoli, Libya on January 10, 2020.

Voluntary teachers who did not want Idlib's children to stay away from education turned a 12-square-meter tent into a school in the de-escalation zone in Idlib city of northwestern Syria. Over 20,000 more civilians have fled Idlib city in northwestern Syria, taking shelter near the Turkish border in recent days, according to the head of Syria's Response Coordination Group. Bombing by Russian-backed forces of the Bashar Assad regime in Syria has displaced more than 379,000 Syrians since November ...

With efforts of Turkish police, another family has reunited with their child, who was kidnapped by PKK terrorists, after five years of longing. According to security forces, five members of the organization surrendered Thursday to Turkish authorities at Sirnak's Habur border gate in eastern Turkey, after the persuasion efforts of police.

Two storks have become mascots of a Turkish village in the country's southeasternmost after halting migration three years ago. Located on storks' migration route, Hakkari's Yuksekova district became a new home to the two that emigrated to Nehil Reed in the village of Koprucuk. Village dwellers take good care of the storks by cleaning their nest when it snows and feeding them with homemade food or freshly caught fishes.

Turkish Defense Minister Hulusi Akar received U.S. Special Envoy for Syria James Jeffrey in Ankara, Turkey's Ministry of National Defense announced on Friday.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu, Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Alhakim and their accompanying delegations hold a meeting in Baghdad, Iraq on January 09, 2020.

Three people are missing in Istanbul after a Turkish-flagged fishing boat collided with a Russian-flagged tanker on the Bosphorus Strait on Friday, according to Istanbul Governor's Office. The cause of the incident remains unclear.

Video footage reviewed and verified by The New York Times on Thursday appears to show a missile striking a Ukraine-bound aircraft shortly before it crashed in Tehran, Iran. The 19-second clip appears to show a missile flying toward the passenger plane before it slams into the aircraft in a bright white flash. The plane, however, does not explode, instead appearing to change course before it falls out of view. A large boom can be heard shortly after, but it is not clear from the video what the so...

Families' sit-in protest in front of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) office in Turkey's southeastern Diyarbakir province continues on January 09, 2020 as they hope to reunite with their children kidnapped by the YPG/PKK terror group. It was 129 days ago when a woeful mother started a sit-in protest against the YPG/PKK terror group in southeastern Turkey and it later snowballed.

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu meets Iraqi Foreign Minister Mohamed Ali Alhakim in Baghdad, Iraq on January 09, 2020.