The death toll of civilians and fighters further increased on the third day of the Turkish offensive towards the Kurds in Syria. A car bomb went off in the city of Qamishli, and on the Turkish side of the border civilians were killed in a mortar attack, according to several media. A car...

 Suspected missile strikes hit an Iranian oil tanker near the Saudi coast on Friday, its owner said, the first Iranian vessel targeted since a spate of attacks in the Gulf Washington blamed on Tehran. Oil prices surged more than two percent on the news, which raised new supply...

Turkish forces have killed more than 100 militants in an assault on Kurdish militia in northeast Syria, Turkey’s president said on Thursday, as heavy shelling and air strikes against targets in the region continued. According to a senior Turkish security official, armed forces struck...

Turkish ground forces seized at least one village from Kurdish fighters in northern Syria as they pressed ahead with their assault for a second day Thursday, pounding towns and villages along with border with airstrikes and artillery. Residents of border areas within Syria scrambled in...