An Istanbul court Thursday remanded 20 suspects in custody as part of a probe into “sleeper cells” of the Fetullah Terrorist Organization (FETO), the group blamed for the July 15 defeated coup, a judicial source said. According to the source, speaking on condition of anonymity due to...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry discussed the situation in Syria in a telephone call on Wednesday, just two days after Washington said it was breaking off bilateral diplomacy with Moscow on the Syrian war. Lavrov and Kerry also talked about the...

The Iraqi parliament’s rejection of Turkey’s military presence in the country is not a reflection of the feelings of ordinary Iraqis, the Turkish foreign minister said Wednesday. Speaking at a news conference in Ankara, Mevlut Cavusoglu said the decision against the Turkish base at...

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has warned Turkey that it risks triggering a regional war by keeping troops in Iraq, as each summoned the other's ambassador in a growing row. Relations between the two regional powers are already broadly strained by the Syrian civil war and the rise of...