President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday Turkish forces would sweep Kurdish fighters from the Syrian border and could push all the way east to the frontier with Iraq - a move which risks a possible confrontation with U.S. forces allied to the Kurds. The Turkish offensive in northwest...

The Syrian opposition delegation at peace talks in Vienna received a pledge Friday from Russia that it would press the Syrian army to enforce a ceasefire in the besieged enclave of eastern Ghouta, an opposition spokesman said Friday. Syrian army and Russian jets have for the last two...

A mass grave containing the remains of dozens of civilians and security personnel apparently executed by extremists has been found in northern Iraq's Kirkuk province, its governor said Friday. Rakan Said al-Juburi told AFP it was the 14th such discovery in the area. "Local...

The Syrian rebel commander stared at photographs of his fighters on the hilly frontline at the Kurdish enclave of Afrin, their pickup trucks stalled in the mud after a torrential downpour of rain. “It’s going to be a tough battle, maybe five or six months,” he said. “[But]...