Turkey's prime minister Saturday cancelled a planned meeting with the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party, saying its politics was rooted in violence, as government forces pursued a major security operation in the country's mainly Kurdish southeast. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was due to...

A U.S.-backed alliance of Syrian Kurds and Arab rebel groups advanced toward a dam in northern Syria held by Islamic State fighters on Thursday, in an assault aimed at capturing the militants' stronghold of Raqqa, rebels and a monitor said. They said the push by fighters of the Democratic...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrian activists and ISIS say the militants have seized a district previously held by Syrian troops in the eastern city of Deir Ezzor, AP reported. The industrial district of Deir Ezzor fell to the group late Wednesday following an attack and fierce clashes between the two...

Clashes between Turkish security forces and Kurdish militants intensified in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir Wednesday after a bomb attack on troops there killed one soldier and wounded seven other people, security sources said. Turkish security forces last week launched an operation in...