Iraqi forces drove back Islamic State militants in southeastern Mosul on Thursday, making gains in an area where advances have been particularly tough, the military said in a statement. Rapid response units from Iraq's federal police advanced in the Sumer district, which lies on the eastern...

A UN-backed program to train Syrian entrepreneurs in Turkey has produced a thousand graduates, a Turkish NGO said on Wednesday. The three-month scheme was a pilot program run by Habitat and the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Called IMECE -- a Turkish word which...

The ongoing campaign to recapture Mosul from the Daesh terrorist group is likely to continue for another three months, Iraqi Ambassador to Turkey Hisham Ali Akbar Ibrahim al-Alawi said Wednesday. "We expect the Mosul campaign to wrap up in three months," he said. Speaking at a press...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman lashed out at the U.S. military on Thursday after it re-tweeted a statement by a Kurdish-dominated alliance it backs in Syria saying it had no links to Kurdish militants fighting the Turkish state. The Syrian Democratic Forces, the main U.S....