U.S. lawmakers kept up their push on Monday to impose sanctions on Turkey if it does not end its offensive in northeastern Syria, and a leading Kurdish politician called on President Donald Trump to stop the “ethnic cleansing” of her people. “We need to stop the slaughter. We need...

Turkey is holding covert contacts with Syria’s regime to avert direct conflict in northeast Syria where both sides have deployed their armies, Turkish officials say, despite Ankara’s long-standing hostility to Bashar al-Assad. Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan backs rebels who...

Sudan has agreed to open humanitarian access to war-torn areas of the country for the first time in eight years as part of a new roadmap enabling suspended peace talks to resume, a rebel leader said on Monday. “We are expecting that the humanitarian situation is going to improve in...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Monday he was giving up his effort to form a new government after failing to secure a majority coalition in Parliament following an inconclusive election in September. Netanyahu, who heads the right-wing Likud party, said he was returning the...