ANKARA — Premier Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Abdullah Gul have strongly differing lines on Turkey's mass protests, throwing a spotlight on their growing rivalry ahead of next year's elections when both could potentially run for the presidency, observers say. Ever since the first...

Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) reported that Minsk sold arms to Damascus. According to researches, Belarus is among three largest arms suppliers to the Syrian dictator.   Cooperation with Assad doesn't cover only trade. Belarusian specialists...

The military chief of the main umbrella group of Syrian rebels says his men are ready to fight Hezbollah militants inside neighboring Lebanon. according to his interview with BBC World. Gen Selim Idriss of the Free Syrian Army said that Hezbollah fighters were...

 Turkey's deputy prime minister offered an apology Tuesday for the government's violent crackdown on an environmental protest , a calculated bid to ease days of anti-government rallies in the country's major cities. The message was a bit mixed, however, as hundreds of  riot police...