A major battle to liberate ISIS' stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria is looming, with U.S. officials looking to build on momentum from victories on the battlefields of Mosul in Iraq. The Pentagon has drawn up a secret plan to do that, likely leaning on local allies with stepped-up American...

Turkish Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag said Thursday he had cancelled a scheduled trip to Germany after authorities there blocked a rally to promote a "yes" vote for constitutional changes that would expand the president's powers. Bozdag was scheduled late Thursday to address the Turkish...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Turkish-backed Free Syrian Army took two village  from the powerful Kurdish YPG militia in the eastern countryside of Aleppo as hundreds of families flee ISIS-held areas, local reporter said. The FSA fighters captured villages of Tel Tourin and Qara near...

Turkey Thursday threatened to strike Syrian Kurdish militia forces if they don't withdraw from Manbij, a former bastion of ISIS extremists that has been taken over by predominantly-Kurdish forces. "We will strike the YPG if they do not retreat," Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu told...