ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkey is heading toward presidential and parliamentary elections on Sunday. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who has dominated Turkish politics over the past two decades, has never appeared more vulnerable to an opposition challenge. Erdogan has tightened his grip...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has parlayed his country's NATO membership and location straddling Europe and the Middle East into international influence during two decades in power. Like other world leaders with global ambitions, he finds his tenure imperiled by...

A car bombing close to a police station near the Syrian capital wounded five officers on Wednesday, state media reported. The reports, citing the Interior Ministry, did not provide further details on the explosion in the neighborhood of Barzeh, just north of Damascus. The state SANA news...

Zaman al-Wasl obtained a new footage of a horrific massacre committed by the Syrian regime forces and loyal thugs against more than 200 children, women and men in the Ras al-Naba'a village in the coastal city of Baniyas in 2013. The clip showed the accumulation of victims, including...