President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted on Saturday as saying Turkey would never allow the formation of a Kurdish state embracing its south-east and parts of northern Syria, comments likely to anger Kurds as a peace process with Ankara stalls. Turkey has looked askance as Syrian Kurds have made...
Turkey's pro-Kurdish party described an Islamic State attack on the Syrian border town of Kobani as a massacre and blamed it on Turkish state support for the militants, comments which will fuel tension in Ankara amid attempts to form a government. Islamic State fighters launched simultaneous...
While the exodus from Syria has become the world's biggest refugee crisis, the United States is being criticized by relief organizations and some within President Barack Obama's Democratic Party for allowing only a limited flow into America. Since October fewer than 800 Syrian refugees have...