Turkey will not hesitate to carry out further operations like its Euphrates Shield campaign in northern Syria, or retaliate if it faces a threat from the YPG militia, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday. Erdogan, speaking to a group of business leaders in Istanbul, said he told the...

Iraqi Shiite paramilitaries captured an air base from ISIS militants on Thursday, gaining a strategic foothold in the western desert as they push towards the Syrian border. While regular Iraqi security forces engage in gruelling urban combat inside Mosul, the paramilitaries have been...

Iran criticized new U.S. sanctions on its missile program on Thursday, saying they would undermine the nuclear deal with world powers. "Iran condemns the U.S. administration's ill will in its effort to reduce the positive results of the country's implementation of JCPOA (nuclear deal)...

President Tayyip Erdogan told U.S. President Donald Trump during his visit to Washington this week that Turkey would act "without asking anyone" if it faced any sort of attack from the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, Turkish media reported on Thursday. Trump's approval, before the visit, of...