Turkish Justice Minister Yilmaz Tunc has slammed the United States and Israel over blocking a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and committing genocide in the besieged territory.

Turkey says it will confront the Israeli regime’s attempts “to set the region on fire,” addressing Tel Aviv’s ongoing incendiary acts of deadly aggression against the regional countries.

Ankara says it will make every effort to "stop the genocide and exert the necessary pressure on Israel and its supporters."

Turkey blocks access to Instagram, amid outrage over the censorship of posts on Israel’s assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad are expected to meet with each other for the first time after over 10 years at the Yayladagi-Kasab border gate.

The Turkish president has repeatedly said Israel is solely to blame for escalating tensions in West Asia.

President Bashar al-Assad says Syria is positive about any Turkey initiative.

Syrian Foreign Ministry says potential rapprochement and restoration of diplomatic relations between Damascus and Ankara depends on Turkey withdrawing its troops from the Arab nation’s territory.

Scorching heatwaves hitting the West Asia region trigger extensive and rolling power outages across Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Turkey.

Turkish forces move 15 kilometers into the Iraqi Kurdistan region under the pretext of fighting the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militant group.