Turkey will start an operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria in a "few days," President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday, a move that could further complicate relations with the United States. "We will start the operation to clear the east of the Euphrates from...

Japan on Wednesday selected the Chinese character for "disaster" as its "defining symbol" for 2018, a year that saw the country hit by deadly floods, earthquakes and storms. Japanese TV stations broadcast the annual announcement live, with Seihan Mori, master of the ancient Kiyomizu...

The Iraqi military says its jets have bombed two Daesh (ISIS) positions inside Syria that were being used for as meeting places for the militant group. Iraq's Joint Operations Command said in a statement Tuesday that at least 30 Daesh members were present in one of the locations...

Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that the Damascus government must help resolve, the U.N. refugee agency UNHCR said Tuesday. Some 5.6 million Syrian refugees remain in...