Turkey has completed preparations for a new operation in northern Syria to "destroy" a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia that Ankara considers a terrorist group, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Tuesday. The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) holds territory east of the Euphrates...

Hundreds of Kurdish fighters have arrived in eastern Syria to help a U.S.-backed alliance fight Daesh (ISIS) after a major setback last week, an activist group said Tuesday. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-Arab alliance backed by the U.S.-led coalition, launched an...

 Syrian Kurdish special forces have joined an offensive against Daesh (ISIS) militants in eastern Syria, a commander said, after the militants recovered ground from U.S.-backed forces in a fierce counter attack. Daesh launched the assault against the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic...

Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats have suffered huge losses on Sunday in regional elections in the central German state of Hesse. Projections by public broadcaster ARD showed Christian Democratic Union (CDU) could only manage to win 28 percent of the vote, a significant...