Separately, a US State Department spokesman said the ceasefire in northern Syria had been extended until the end of this week. “We continue to engage with the SDF, with Turkey about a path ...

Ankara is also encouraging more than 3 million Syrian refugees in Turkey to eventually return home, when conditions permit. If Turkish leaders are feeling triumphant, their apparent successes in ...

Israel rejected Turkish accusations on Tuesday following Ankara’s condemnation of Israeli military actions in Syria, as Turkey escalates its own operations in the war-torn country. The rising ...

Turkey is seen as the victor after the fall of Assad. Nonetheless, Ankara cannot ignore a Kurdish role in the post-war settlement. In a gaffe at Harvard University in 2014, then-Vice President ...

JERUSALEM — Just hours after meeting with Secretary of State Antony Blinken and discussing the fight against the Islamic State in Syria, Turkey's foreign minister sent a shocking message to ...

All roads leading to Syria pass through Ankara... Or so it has seemed ever since Turkey emerged as one of the biggest winners out of the downfall of Bashar al-Assad's regime, having had a ...

He said that “nobody knows” what the future holds for Syria, which has been at war since 2011. However, he added that he thinks “Turkey is going to hold the key to” the nation. Ankara has ...

Turkey said Syria’s new rebel government agrees with Ankara on the need to dismantle Kurdish military forces — a critical US ally in the northern region of Syria — as countries rush to shape ...

President-elect Donald Trump characterized the rebel ouster of Syrian strongman Bashar al-Assad as an "unfriendly takeover" by US ally Turkey as he addressed the conflict at a news conference on ...

The political and military landscape of Syria is rapidly shifting as Turkey reopens its embassy in Damascus after a 12-year hiatus, while tensions with Kurdish fighters continue to escalate.