( The Washington Post )- U.S. armored vehicles are deploying in areas in northern Syria along the tense border with Turkey, a few days after a Turkish airstrike that killed 20 U.S.-backed Kurdish fighters, a Syrian war monitor and Kurdish activists said Friday. Footage posted by Syrian...

Israel intends to build 15,000 new settlement homes in East Jerusalem, the Housing Ministry said on Friday despite U.S. President Donald Trump's request to "hold back" on settlements as part of a possible new push for Israeli-Palestinian peace. A formal announcement of the settlement plan,...

President Tayyip Erdogan said Friday Turkey's southern border region with Syria had come under serious mortar fire over the last two days and Turkish forces were retaliating as necessary. Erdogan also told a conference in Istanbul that United States support for Kurdish militia fighters...

New clashes erupted on Thursday between the Turkish army and a Syrian Kurdish militia regarded as a terror group by Ankara but seen by the United States as a key ally in the fight against extremists, reports said. Mortar shells fired from an area in Syria controlled by the Kurdish Peoples'...