Turkish border guards, and in their effort to combat Islamic State and the historic Kurdish enemy PKK, have carried out a series of breaches and crimes against Syrian displaced who are trying to escape fight between conflicting parties in northern Syria. Number of Syrian displaced, including...

 On the day U.S. and Iranian negotiators reached a historic nuclear agreement last month, Hadi Partovi threw an impromptu party in his backyard outside Seattle, setting in motion a rare expression of solidarity among the country's most prominent Iranian-Americans. Partovi, who has invested...

The U.S. State Department Tuesday denied it has agreed to a “safe zone” in northern Syria, after broadcaster CNN Turk quoted a senior Turkish diplomat as saying the countries have settled on terms for such a zone in their campaign against ISIS. “There’s no agreement on some kind of...

The al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front has withdrawn from frontline positions against Islamic State north of Aleppo and ceded them to other rebels, leaving an area of northern Syria where Turkey wants to establish a buffer zone. A Nusra Front statement dated Sunday criticized a Turkish-U.S....