The Dersim massacre in 1938 saw as many as 70,000 killed in eastern Turkey under the Turkification ... burned themselves alive in protest. Rape and sexual abuse was rife in what was a systematic ...

Military reserve forces in the Middle East make up an important component of any army within the region. These units provide additional manpower and capabilities to regular military forces, should the ...

Officials in Syria's caretaker government were left with a state in ruins. Some fear they aren't moving fast enough to fix it ...

Turkey said on Wednesday it had killed 13 Kurdish militants in northern Syria and two in Iraq, a sign that Ankara has pressed on with its campaign against fighters, some with possible links to U.S.

Turkish authorities have detained a prominent investigative journalist and four of his colleagues and replaced an elected pro ...

A Turkish court arrested a well-known talent manager over the charge of attempting to overthrow the government in an investigation connected to nationwide protests in 2013, a court document seen by ...

ERBIL (Kurdistan 24) – Prime Minister Theresa May of the United Kingdom said Tuesday that her country was a “true friend” of Turkey’s and used the phrase “Kurdish terrorism ... upheld,” she added.

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday after talks in Baghdad that a joint battle using "all our resources" must be carried out to eliminate both Islamic State and Kurdish militants in ...

Turkey Says Joint Fight Needed Against Kurdish Militants, Islamic State in the Region ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday after talks in Baghdad that a joint ...

Many in the region are questioning the kind of settlement Turkey seeks in Syria with the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which control significant territory in the northeast of ...

Fidan's visit took place amid repeated calls from Turkey for the Kurdish YPG militia in northeast Syria to disband following the fall of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad last month ...

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