The £13 billion project aims to redefine this country's position in global trade and create the new "Suez Canal".

The head of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria has been killed in Iraq in an operation by members of the Iraqi national ...

For more than 40 years, the Turkish government has fought the PKK in eastern Turkey, northern Iraq and Syria. Recent efforts ...

The killing comes as the group has been reconstituting in Syria, carrying out more attacks than at any time since it lost ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

Turkey's top diplomat travelled to Damascus on Thursday as Ankara said foreign fighters must be expelled from Syria, after an ...

Israel's war on Gaza and the fall of Assad have rattled the region, but as history shows, there is often more continuity than ...

ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish forces killed 24 Kurdish militants in northern Iraq and Syria over the past week, the defence ministry said on Thursday, continuing attacks in the region after a disarmament ...

The deal aims to stitch back together a country fractured by 14 years of war, paving the way for Kurdish-led forces which hold a quarter of Syria to merge with Damascus, along with regional Kurdish go ...

The Turkish president has expanded the country’s military and diplomatic footprint from Africa to the Middle East in a way ...

After Syria’s longtime autocratic ruler was toppled late last year, the man who led rebel groups to victory immediately faced ...