Over the last several days Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has pulled out all the stops to try to deal with rapidly worsening situation in Syria. He has mounted a campaign to exert maximum pressure on his two purported allies, the adversaries Russia and the United States, and through...

Migrants trickled through permeable borders to Greece from Turkey on Sunday as thousands gathered on the country’s frontier seeking entry after Ankara relaxed curbs on their movement. At first light, dozens of people in three dinghies made their way to the Aegean island of Lesbos, a...

Refugees in Turkey headed towards European frontiers on Friday after an official declared that borders had been thrown open in response to the escalating war in Syria, a day after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Russian-backed Syrian government troops. European officials rushed to...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan Friday expressed grave concern over the situation in Syria's Idlib province after 33 Turkish soldiers were killed by Syrian fire, the Kremlin said. The Kremlin added that the two also agreed in a telephone call on...