President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is the most powerful person in Turkey in almost a century, rivaled only by Ataturk — the secular founder of the republic. Erdogan first assumed power as prime minister in 2003, and in 2014 he won elections to become president. After already having controlled...

A meeting of a Turkish group in the U.K. parliament, hosted by a British lawmaker, was disrupted by PKK sympathizers on Monday night. During an event on British-Turkish relations organized by the U.K. branch of the Union of European Turkish Democrats (UETD), a group which had posed as...

  (Zaman Al Wasl)- Syria's chief opposition coordinator Riad Hijab said Monday that defeat in Aleppo would not weaken the resolve of opponents of Bashar Assad to remove him from power. "If Assad and his allies think that a military advance in certain quarters of Aleppo will signify that...

Until three weeks ago, many of Abu Osama's customers were Islamic State militants who brought their wives and children to his pharmacy on the eastern edge of Mosul for injections and treatment. Now, most of them are Iraqi security forces who recaptured the Gogjali neighborhood earlier...