Iraq's deadliest wave of protests since the 2003 ouster of dictator Saddam Hussein has made the country vulnerable to a battle for influence between its two main competing allies, the United States and Iran, analysts say. The anti-government protests that erupted on October 1 echoed the...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Thursday called on NATO to increase naval patrols in the Aegean after a threat by Turkey to allow more migrants to cross into Greece. "I asked the secretary general and the alliance, and member states to strengthen their presence... in the Aegean...

Turkish troops and allied Syrian rebels have now encircled two border towns in northeast Syria held by the U.S.-backed SDF forces after a ground offensive that seized several villages around them, a spokesman for the rebels said Thursday. Major Youssef Hamoud said the two towns of Ras al...

Turkish forces have killed more than 100 militants in an assault on Kurdish militia in northeast Syria, Turkey’s president said on Thursday, as heavy shelling and air strikes against targets in the region continued. According to a senior Turkish security official, armed forces struck...