A day later, in the northern Syrian city of Afrin – controlled by Turkish-backed Syrian opposition forces – people protested in solidarity with their compatriots in Turkey.

In Turkey, the authorities said that more than 43,000 people had died; in Syria, the death toll crossed 5,500, according to figures from the United Nations.

But Turkey is not wiling to withdraw its troops from what it calls a "security zone" in northern Syria, which Turkey controls with the help of the Syrian National Army (SNA), an Islamist militia ...

Afghanistan’s Taliban administration will send aid worth about $166,000 to Turkey and Syria to help the response to a devastating magnitude 7.8 earthquake that struck this week, according to a ...

Syria’s curse, as its conflict rumbles slowly towards its first decade, has always been how new forces enter the war just when it seems that exhaustion might slow everyone down.

Turkey backed Syria's opposition forces from the start of the country's civil war in 2011. With Syrian dictator Bashar Assad now overthrown, what role will Turkey play in Syria's political transition?

Syrian students are busy learning the Turkish language and seeking ways to get to Turkey to study or work, said Nour Hallak, a Syrian activist living in the Turkish-controlled part of Aleppo province.

Turkey is no fan of Assad by any means, but their biggest enemy in Syria’s civil war are the Kurds, whom Turkey is worried will use the territory they’ve captured to establish an independent ...

Turkey has offered to assist the victorious Syrian opposition forces with building up more military force. Here, an opposition soldier fires a machine gun mounted in a truck bed.

Turkey had previously announced that it would create a 32-kilometer-wide safe zone in Northeast Syria in response to threats from the Democratic Union Party (PYD), a Kurdish-led authority in ...

Turkey could stop funding the SNA and instead contribute directly to Syria’s central budget and thus its new army. Uniting Syria’s armed groups under one umbrella would be almost impossible ...

Turkey's invasion of northern Syria highlights the complicated relationship between the U.S., Turkey, and the Kurds. It's the latest chapter in a long history of tension in the region.