ARBIL Iraq/MURSITPINAR Turkey (Reuters) - Iraqi Kurdish troops drove Islamic State fighters from a strategic border crossing with Syria on Tuesday and won the support of members of a major Sunni tribe, in one of the biggest successes since U.S. forces began bombing the Islamists. The...

Reporting by Sarah Abdul Hai; Writing by Dani Murad (Zaman Al Wasl)- It has become clear that the new international shifts relating to the elimination of the "Islamic state" are bringing a major change on the Syrian scene, both military and...

(AFP)- The advance of Islamic State (IS) jihadists through Syria's Kurdish areas has thrown a serious obstacle in the way of efforts to make peace between Turkey and Kurdish militants, just when an end was in sight to a 30-year insurgency. The outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party...

More than 130,000 Syrian refugees fleeing ISIL have crossed into Turkish territories since Friday, Turkey's Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said Monday. Kurtulmus was attending a symposium on Turkish-Japan relations at the Ankara-based think...