Turkish security forces killed 23 Kurdish militants during two days of operations in two southeastern towns, state media said Thursday, as the government takes its fight against the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) increasingly into urban areas. The PKK's three-decades-old insurgency...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will chair a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on Friday to push efforts to end the conflict in Syria, the State Department said on Wednesday. While in New York, Kerry will also host a meeting of the International Syria Support...

An Iranian news agency said on Wednesday the commander of foreign operations for Tehran's elite Revolutionary Guards had met Russian President Vladimir Putin last week, but his spokesman flatly denied the report. Fars news agency said General Qassem Soleimani, who visited Moscow in July to aid...

Syrian regime troops and allied militia pushed rebel fighters back on Wednesday from a hilltop overlooking a strategic highway in President Bashar al-Assad’s coastal heartland, state media said. Citing a military source, state news agency SANA said army units and pro-government militia...