U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Tuesday named Turkey as one of the countries that needed to do more in the fight against Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), including tightening control of its border with Syria. “We all must do more. Turkey must do more to control its often porous...

An explosion on Tuesday near a central Istanbul subway station has injured at least one person, the province's governor said. The blast occurred at an intersection in Bayrampasa district on the European side at around 6.00 p.m. local time (1600GMT). One person was injured, the governor Vasip...

An airstrike on a water treatment plant in Syria last Thursday cut water supplies for 3.5 million people, and although pumping has been partly restored, 1.4 million still have reduced supply, the head of U.N. agency UNICEF in Syria said Tuesday. "In Syria, the rules of war, including...

By Barak Mendelsohn (Foreign Affairs)- The October bombing of a Russian airliner above Sinai , followed quickly by the November Paris attacks , created a broad international consensus that the Islamic State ( ISIS ) is on the march and must be stopped. The United States had...