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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said earlier that a “secure zone” would pave the way for the return of 1.7 million Syria refugees now sheltering in Turkey after fleeing their country’s four-year civil war. Then, Turkey conducted its own airstrikes against the...

BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say clashes between members of al-Qaida’s branch in Syria and a rebel faction in the country’s north believed to have been trained by the U.S. government have stopped after the rebels left the area.

Turkey’s air raids against the Kurdish rebels, which came at the same time as Turkey began cracking down on the Islamic State group, are reigniting a 30-year conflict with the insurgents and leave a two-year-old, fragile peace process in pieces. But their advance across...

A United States Navy plane approaches to land at the Incirlik Air Base, in Adana, in the outskirts of the city of Adana, southeastern Turkey, Tuesday, July 28, 2015. The Americans have long coveted the use of the Incirlik air base whose vast size and key strategic location makes...

But the United States and Turkey have not yet agreed which Syrian rebels they will support in the effort.

It also accused Iraq of failing to keep to a pledge to prevent PKK attacks on Turkey from its territory.

In 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, Turkey refused to allow U.S. troops to use Turkey as a transit to set up a northern access route against the forces of Saddam Hussein.

The Ministry refuted the allegations of the letter sent by Turkey to the UN Secretary-General and the head of the Security Council and asserted that the Syrian Army and Armed Forces are fighting ISIS and al-Nusra across Syria, while journalists have published photos of Turkish...

The leader of a U.S.-backed rebel group and several of his men have been abducted in northern Syria by the al-Qaida-affiliated Nusra Front, the rebel group and opposition activists said Thursday.

“There are indications of possible attacks on subways and at bus stops in Istanbul”, the government warned.

Bahçeli earlier suggested that the MHP form a coalition with the AK Party if it agrees to prevent President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan meddling in government affairs in line with constitutional limits, end the initiative to resolve the Kurdish issue through talks with the imprisoned...

The worry is that Turkey’s growing involvement in the Syria war could suck the United States and the Europeans into a wider regional quagmire and that Ankara’s real targets are the Kurds. Cavusoglu said, adding that the Turkish government was still in favor of finding...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Daesh fighters infiltrated Sarrin, a town in Aleppo province recently captured by Kurdish forces, and attacked a school being used as a base by Kurds.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based group that often statistics upon the battle, said males were usually kidnapped while you are strolling back from an arrangement in Azaz, east of Aleppo, to assist endeavors by using other factions.

Al Qaeda-linked fighters have abducted the leader of a U.S.-backed rebel group in north Syria, opposition sources and a monitoring group said, but the Pentagon cast doubt on the reports.