Fresh off a visit to Syria where he became one of the first US lawmakers to meet the country’s new Islamist president, a ...

Representatives of Kurdish groups in Syria are calling for a democratic state that gives the country’s Kurds their ethnic ...

Assad, Israel has exploited the weakness of the new Syrian government to carry out cross-border operations in the name of its ...

Syrians in the UK and Europe who were awaiting asylum decisions when Assad fell say going home is not yet a safe option ...

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Whatever ultimately happens, it’s already clear that any movement of Turkey’s S-400s over its southern border will be highly ...

During the meetings at the deputy foreign minister level, Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Nuh Yilmaz and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Mikhail Bogdanov represented their respective countries ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry emphasized that both parties underscored the importance of uniting international efforts to achieve sustainable normalization in Syria, while unwaveringly respecting its ...

President Donald Trump appears to want Turkey to play a bigger role in the region, despite its poor human rights record toward the Kurds and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s long-standing antipathy ...

F or miles around, as far as the eye can see, the eastern suburbs of Damascus are a sea of undulating rubble and skeletal ...

A powerful earthquake rocked Istanbul, a city of 16 million, on Wednesday at 12:49 p.m. (0949 GMT), leaving over 230 injured.

Turkish Finance Minister Mehmet Simsek and Central Bank Governor Fatih Karahan met on Wednesday with U.S. Treasury Secretary ...