Foreign Ministry doesn't confirm Mevlut Cavusoglu's trip; Ankara's top envoy also says Israel-Turkey gas pipeline will not happen anytime soon

Kremlin says oligarch ensuring contact between sides, not an official member of delegation; Ukraine envoy scoffs at his presence, saying he has no idea what he's doing there

Ighbariah got 18 months for Islamic State links after brother testifies he wanted to join police; other shooter reportedly moved from Fatah prison wing for being 'too radical'

Iraqi official says businessman's villa pounded in missile attack earlier this month was site of meetings with Israeli officials on a pipeline to supply Turkey, Europe

Istanbul meeting comes after years of long-standing tensions between Athens, Ankara and as Erdogan seeks to shore up credentials as regional power player

Marc Schneier, an influential and controversial rabbi to American celebrities and Gulf sheikhs alike, describes his role in bringing Herzog and Erdogan together

Gaza rulers, who enjoy close ties with Ankara, avoid calling out country by name, referring to 'our brothers in Arab and Islamic countries'

Meeting comes amid outrage in Kyiv over a Russian airstrike hitting a children's hospital, which Lavrov claims was a military base for Ukrainian extremists

Lapid expected to host Turkish counterpart next month, discuss reopening of embassies and collaboration in energy market, as nations look forward to better future

President making first high-level state visit to country in over a decade, in major step toward taking ties out of deep freeze, but distrust remains after years of bad blood