Bashar Assad arrived in Moscow on Tuesday, where he is scheduled to meet top ally Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia is a main backer of Assad and has a broad presence in Syria, where a 12-year uprising-turned-civil war has killed nearly half a million people and displaced half the...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is seeking a third consecutive term in office in elections in May, marks 20 years in power on Tuesday. The 69-year-old, who served as prime minister from 2003-2014 and as president thereafter, started as a reformist who expanded rights and...

The local Al-Watan newspaper, quoting well-informed sources that Syria's (the Syrian regime) position remains the same until Turkish guarantees of withdrawal from all Syrian territories are obtained before any political meeting brings the two parties together at one negotiating table. The...

The Turkish Immigration Department said on Monday that it has deported 21,211 irregular migrants since the beginning of the year. It added in a statement, reported by the Anadolu Agency (AA), that it continues to combat irregular immigration and deport illegal immigrants who entered the...