NATO-member Turkey was a main backer of rebels who fought Bashar al-Assad for years and it has forged close ties with the new ...

Tayyip Erdogan's long-held goal of ending Turkey's conflict with Kurdish militants is a step closer after their jailed chief's peace call, giving the president a potential political boost at home and ...

Turkish and British officials will discuss Syria's future during a meeting in Ankara on Monday, with security, sanctions and ...

Turkish Deputy Foreign Minister Nuh Yilmaz and British Minister for the Middle East Hamish Falconer are set to hold talks on ...

Muslims in the Middle East are observing the holy month of Ramadan under exceptional circumstances. Ramadan is seen as a time ...

Making peace with the PKK could also lead to a big advance in Erdogan’s mission to stabilise Syria under a friendly new ...

These meetings culminated in Öcalan’s February 27 statement, in which he urged his organization to lay down arms and abandon ...

Muslims in the Middle East are observing the holy month of Ramadan under exceptional circumstances. Ramadan is seen as a time ...

Kurdish militants who have waged a 40-year insurgency in Turkey declared a ceasefire on Saturday in what could mark a significant boost to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s government, two days after ...

The main Iranian opposition group based in the Kurdistan Region on Saturday welcomed the call by Abdullah Ocalan, leader of ...

Israel blocked the entry of aid trucks into Gaza on Sunday as a standoff over the truce that has halted fighting for the past six weeks escalated, with Hamas calling on Egyptian and Qatari mediators ...

An uneasy calm prevailed in the town on the outskirts of Damascus on Sunday, two days after a gunfight between local men and ...