KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukraine announced a high-profile prisoner swap early Thursday that was the culmination of months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in Mariupol during a long Russian siege. In exchange, Ukraine gave up a prominent ally of Russian...

 ,   A decade into their experiment in self-rule, Syria's Kurds fear an apparent rapprochement between Damascus and their foe the Turkish government could cost them their hard-won way of life. Before Syria's conflict broke out, the country's roughly two million Kurds were not...

Turkey’s leader, overseeing a nation encircled by regional disputes, used his speech at the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday to shine a spotlight on Turkish maneuvering in conflicts that span from Syria to Ukraine. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s speech comes as Turkey is beset by...

Israeli forces crossed into Syria on Monday and fired at four individuals who had "hurled objects along the border fence", wounding one of them, the army said. Israel, which regularly carries out air strikes inside Syria's territory, rarely publicly acknowledges cross-border operations....