ANKARA (Reuters)- Turkish Recep President Tayyip Wednesday threatened to soon crush militants in northern Iraq, after his foreign minister last week said Ankara and Baghdad would carry out a joint offensive against Kurdish militants in Iraq. "We are checking the terror nests in northern...

ANKARA (Reuters)- Turkey and Iraq's central government in Baghdad will carry out a joint operation against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu was quoted as saying Thursday. Cavusoglu's comments came as Turkey pushed ahead with a cross-border...

Turkey will set up camps to settle 170,000 people in nine locations near Idlib province, and in the area Ankara controls by further east in northern Syria, Turkish diplomatic sources said. Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies, which six weeks ago launched an operation in the Afrin region...

Syrian militant rebels took back some ground Thursday from rival insurgent groups near Syria's border with Turkey after losing control of several towns to them in recent days, rebels and residents said. The rebel-held area in northwestern Syria is their biggest remaining stronghold, and...