President Tayyip Erdogan told Reuters on Tuesday that Turkey would reconsider its position on joining the European Union if it was kept waiting much longer and if the current hostile mentality of some member states persists. Erdogan said a decision on Tuesday by the Parliamentary Assembly of...

Iraq is holding hundreds of millions of dollars Qatari negotiators had brought to Baghdad as ransom money for the release of kidnapped hunters, the prime minister said Tuesday. A hunting party consisting of 24 Qataris and two Saudis kidnapped in southern Iraq in December 2015 was released...

President Tayyip Erdogan insisted there could be no solution to Syria's conflict while President Bashar al-Assad remains in power, and said Russian President Vladimir Putin told him he was not personally committed to the Syrian leader. "Assad is not the address for a prospective solution in...

The United States is "deeply concerned" by Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria, the State Department said Tuesday. "We are very concerned, deeply concerned that Turkey conducted airstrikes earlier today in northern Syria as well as northern Iraq without proper...