Turkey's prime minister ruled out talks with the banned Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) Wednesday after a spate of attacks blamed on the militants killed at least 17 people this week. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the outlawed group had made a bid for dialogue after almost a year of...

: ISIS' far-flung enemies in Syria and Iraq pressed ahead on Wednesday with major advances on multiple fronts that have put some of the greatest pressure on the ultra-hardline Islamists since they declared their caliphate two years ago. A spokesman for a U.S.-backed alliance in northern Syria...

e United States underestimates the long-term impact of civilian deaths on the success of military missions and is failing to implement lessons learned from 15 years in Afghanistan, according to a report released Wednesday. While the US military is committed to avoiding civilian casualties, the...

Syrian government air strikes on rebel-held neighborhoods of divided second city Aleppo killed at least 15 civilians Wednesday, an activist said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 10 of the dead came in raids just outside the Al-Bayan hospital in the Shaar neighborhood....