BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of Kurdish fighters raced from Turkey and Iraq into neighboring Syria on Saturday to defend a Kurdish area under attack by Islamic State militants. As the fighting raged, more than 60,000 mostly Kurdish refugees streamed across the dusty and barren border...

(Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds have crossed into Turkey over the past day, fleeing an advance by Islamic State fighters who have seized dozens of villages close to the border, Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus said on Saturday. Turkey opened a...

By Lama Shammas;Ttranslation by Yusra Ahmed ISTANBUL(Zaman Al Wasl)- “Mercy” is the nickname of rain in Turkey, and this year, they wait for it to save them from Syrian beggars, who spread in many Turkish cities. Jam, a Shawerma shop owner has to leave his work...

    (Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 13 people from the same family have been killed near Qamishli city, northeast Syria, by Kurdish militant group, people of al-Matiniya village said they found their bodies buried in mass graveyard....