KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine announced a high-profile prisoner swap early Thursday that was the culmination of months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in Mariupol during a long Russian siege. In exchange, Ukraine gave up a prominent ally of Russian...

 ,   A decade into their experiment in self-rule, Syria's Kurds fear an apparent rapprochement between Damascus and their foe the Turkish government could cost them their hard-won way of life. Before Syria's conflict broke out, the country's roughly two million Kurds were not...

A Syrian medical student wants to serve as a doctor in Türkiye to show his gratitude to the country for welcoming his family, who was seeking refuge after the Syrian war erupted. Emin Bereket, 21, told Anadolu Agency that he fled Syria with his family after forces of the Bashar al-Assad...

Russia is at war not so much with the Ukrainian army as with the "collective West," the nation's defense minister said on Wednesday after a partial military mobilization was announced in Russia. The mobilization is being carried out to control "already liberated territories," Sergei Shoigu...