President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Sunday that Turkey had begun operations in Iraq's Sinjar region, an area where it has threatened a military incursion, two days after sources said Kurdish PKK militants would withdraw from the area. "We said we would go into Sinjar. Now operations have...

At least 13 people were injured in a car-bomb blast on Sunday in the northern Syrian city of Jarabulus, according to local sources.  A number of women and children were among those injured in the attack, the sources said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on speaking to...

Iran has called the appointment of the former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton to the role of National Security Adviser of the United States "a shame," Iranian media reported Sunday. The report by the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Ali Shamkhani, secretary of the country's Supreme...

Turkey said Sunday the northern Syrian town of Tal Rifaat would be the next target of its cross-border campaign after the capture of Afrin from Syrian Kurdish militia. "God willing, we will ensure this operation achieves its goal after taking control of Tal Rifaat in a short period of...