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Israel said it hit dozens of Hezbollah targets in strikes on Lebanon Monday after vowing retaliation for an attack claimed by Hezbollah, the militant...
The Syrian government claims to have repelled the HTS advance on Hama, but pro-rebel sources claim the opposite.
The UN agency for Palestinian refugees has halted the delivery of aid through the key Kerem Shalom crossing between Israel and Gaza because of safety...
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad sought to shore up support from his allies Sunday, after a monitor said a shock rebel offensive saw government forces...
While Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has yet to comment on the events, HTS could not have made its move without Ankara’s tacit blessing.
For weeks assorted Turkish officials have been leaking claims that there is indeed daylight between the president and his ally of a sort that may even...
Despite occasional spats, Trump and Erdogan got along famously during the former president's first term.
A senior Iraqi official has toured an air base in Iraqi Kurdistan and verified that it has been evacuated of US troops, despite Iranian claims that it...
The dismissals come as Ankara has renewed talks with the Kurdistan Workers' Party and as President Recep Tayyip Erdogan eyes a third term.
In Turkey, as elsewhere around the globe, the outcome of the US presidential election is of great interest, and the country's 16 million ethnic Kurds...
In an exclusive interview with Al-Monitor, the commander in chief of the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazlum Kobane, denied PKK assailants who...
The timing of the attacks has spurred speculation that hawks on both sides are seeking to torpedo efforts to end the conflict between the Turkish army...
These claims, which analysts have deemed absurd, are mainly aimed at appeasing his Islamist base and distracting the broader public from their...
While targeting Assad and his brother would destabilize the regime and potentially deprive Hezbollah of its rear base, an Israeli source has denied...
The recent revelation by Hakan Fidan has refocused attention on the top Turkish diplomat's supposed fondness for Iran.
The women are finding their prospective husbands on the internet using smuggled mobile phones.
The Clooney Foundation for Justice, co-founded by international human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, has intervened in the case of jailed Turkish...
For the sixth time since 2021, the European Union’s naval air mission was blocked from inspecting the cargo of a Turkish-flagged vessel suspected of...
This was the first time in more than a decade that Turkey was invited to join the summit.
Recent civilian deaths have reignited calls from Iraqi officials for the withdrawal of thousands of Turkish troops deployed across Iraqi Kurdistan.
The recent spike in Turkish attacks comes at an especially critical time as Iraq's Kurdistan Region prepares to hold long-delayed parliamentary...
The recent spike in Turkish attacks comes at an especially critical time as Iraq's Kurdistan Region prepares to hold long-delayed parliamentary...
Despite more than a decade of hostility between Turkey and Egypt, ties appear to be on an upward trajectory.
While Turkey is embracing Russia's role in attempting to mediate between Ankara and Damascus, the Syrian government wants a timetable for Turkey...
Turkey and Azerbaijan long enjoyed deep strategic ties, but relations have deteriorated since President Recep Tayyip Erdogan let slip that Ankara...
The estimated $20 billion project was formalized during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s official visit in April to Baghdad and will link...
The estimated $20 billion project was formalized during Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s official visit in April to Baghdad and will link...
The most contested presence for Baghdad is the military base established by Turkish forces in 2015 near the Iraqi town of Bashiqa.
Serdar Yektas, spokesperson for the Kurdistan Workers Party's armed wing, told Al-Monitor that Turkey’s use of its home-manufactured drones has...
A Turkish woman was arrested today for insulting Turkey’s president, infuriating many in the country — and even within his ruling Justice and...
The legislation was rammed through parliament last month by AKP lawmakers and their nationalist allies in the face of nationwide protests.
A top Russian security official visited Tehran as Iran says it "welcomes trilateral cooperation between Iran, Russia and China."
Across the ideological divide, Turks are airing fury at the Hamas leader's assassination.
Iran remains opposed to an Azerbaijani corridor through Armenia that would cut off the Islamic Republic’s access to the Black Sea.
Hints of a breakthrough came last week when Armenia’s Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian toured the newly refurbished Margara checkpoint on the Armenian...
A government-led parliamentary committee this week approved a bill that could result in the mass culling of millions of street dogs, and fury at the...
CHARCHAKIS, Armenia — Sevdin Khudoyan, a farmer-turned-mechanic, has no doubt about who he is. “I am a Kurd and a Yazidi,” Khudoyan asserted...
Iraq’s first lady sharply condemned Turkey’s ongoing military operations against Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militants in the Kurdish-...
After a protracted pause, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has revived efforts to mend fences with the man he long labeled a...
A Turkish drone on Monday struck a vehicle that allegedly belonged to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in the village of Tel Qasab in...
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will attend Turkey’s quarterfinal match against the Netherlands at the European soccer championship in Germany on...
YEREVAN, Armenia — An “extraordinary opportunity to realize a peace agreement” between Armenia and Azerbaijan, two long-warring foes in the...
A common trope in Western lore is that Muslims view dogs as dirty and undesirable and, by extension, are prone to cruelty toward them. It may hence...
Hamas wants a “clear position” from Israel on a withdrawal from Gaza before a cease-fire can take hold, a senior official said on Thursday, as...
Calls for Turkey’s Islamist government to take further measures against Israel amid the carnage unfolding daily in the Gaza Strip are growing...
Authorities in the Kurdish-led Democratic Autonomous Administration in North and East Syria (DAANES) announced on Thursday that they were putting off...
Violent clashes between police and demonstrators erupted Wednesday in the Kurdish-majority city of Hakkari on Turkey’s border with Iraq after its...
Turkey’s main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) has rallied behind the country’s largest pro-Kurdish group after police on Monday...
HEBRON — When rogue officers sought to overthrow Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, in a bloody coup in July 2016, crowds of Palestinians...
JERUSALEM — Jewish settlers, a shady Australian developer and a defrocked priest. This unlikely cast sits at the heart of a multimillion-dollar...