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A cow in a petting zoo remains depressed after being repeatedly raped by a Turkish illegal migrant who was recently deported to Turkey from the...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has secured a long coveted invitation to the White House and is expected to travel to Washington to meet with...
Turkish authorities detained 40 suspected Islamic State militants across eight provinces in coordinated raids in recent days, Interior Minister Ali...
Turkish authorities detained more than 200 people, including 38 children, for wearing Kurdish colors, in the run-up to and during March 21 Kurdish New...
A Turkish soldier was killed and four others were injured in a clash on Tuesday with the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq, as...
LONDON/BRISTOL — A group of Jews were enjoying a late night out in London’s lively West End, chatting animatedly in Hebrew, when a group of around...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani is expected to make his first formal visit to the White House in April since taking power in October...
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is due to travel to the United States on Thursday at the invitation of US Secretary of State Antony Blinken....
A new report from the United Nations records further horrors committed by the paramilitary forces and allied militias that have been fighting the...
Three members of a Christian-led security contingent allied with US-backed forces fighting the Islamic State (ISIS) in northeast Syria were killed in...
There is mounting speculation that talks will result in a deal to establish diplomatic relations, but many outstanding issues will remain.
The detention of a Turkish lawyer on Monday after she made derogatory comments about Sharia on the social media platform X has further fueled debate...
Sweden applied for full membership of the NATO alliance on May 18, 2022, in the wake of Russia’s assault on Ukraine. For 20 excruciating months it...
Pressure on Kurdish media in Turkey showed no signs of letting up as four journalists working for the pro-Kurdish Mezopotamya news agency and the...
Syrian Kurdish forces will retaliate against any further attacks by Iran-backed Shiite militia groups, a top Syrian Kurdish official said Wednesday....
Can the opposition hold on to Istanbul or will President Recep Tayyip Erdogan succeed in wresting back Turkey’s fabled megapolis and seat of power...
Yemen's Huthis claimed Friday a missile strike on a British oil tanker in the Gulf of Aden that set the vessel on fire, the latest attack on...
Hafize Gaye Erkan, the Princeton-educated economist who was brought in last year to turn around Turkey’s flailing currency, may become the sixth...
The Pentagon has floated a plan for its Syrian Kurdish allies in the campaign against the Islamic State (ISIS) to partner with the Syrian regime,...
Israeli strikes killed nine people in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, emergency services and the army said, as violence in the territory sees no...
Israeli strikes killed seven people in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, emergency services and the army said, as violence in the territory sees no...
Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Region Masrour Barzani have canceled scheduled meetings with Iranian...
An Israeli soccer player was detained on Sunday and a Turkish prosecutor launched a criminal probe against him for suspected incitement of public...
ALIYAA, Syria — At the entrance of a small Kurdish village close to Syria’s border with Turkey sits an imposing villa incongruously amid a...
Turkey kicked off the New Year with a full-blown judicial crisis centered on the case of Can Atalay, a human rights lawyer who was elected to...
With the world’s attention focused on the Gaza Strip, Turkey has resumed attacks against the Kurdish-led autonomous entity in northeast Syria,...
AMUDE/QAMISHLI, Syria — The Turkish drone hung silently in the late night sky, shining its light on a nameless hamlet close to a Russian military...
RAQQA/SHADADDI, Syria — “Boom, boom, boom!” The steady burst of munitions emanating from a sprawling US base in a desert outpost in...
NORTHEAST SYRIA — As the conflict in Gaza grinds on for a second month, there is mounting worry that the violence may engulf the surrounding...
DAHUK, Iraq — Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said the United States needs to put more pressure on Israel to end the conflict in Gaza, just as...
A purported video of Russian-Israeli scholar Elizabeth Tsurkov that surfaced on Monday has raised hopes that her Shiite militia captors are seeking a...
LONDON — Last year’s deadly protests in Iran over the death in police custody of a young Kurdish woman, Mahsa Amini, have cast a pall over the...
The Hamas-run government in Gaza said that Israeli airstrikes struck residential blocks in the Jabalia refugee camp for a second day, amid a global...
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will pay an official visit to Turkey on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing conflict between Israel and...
Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian will pay an official visit to Turkey on Wednesday to discuss the ongoing conflict between Israel and...
This is an excerpt from Turkey Briefing, Al-Monitor's weekly newsletter covering the big stories of the week in Turkey. To get Turkey Briefing in your...
The destruction of a Jewish holy site in the Tunisian city of Al Hamma has left the North African nation’s tiny Jewish population feeling ever more...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to escalate Ankara’s ongoing military campaign against a Kurdish-allied military group in northeast...
As the conflict in the Gaza Strip enters its third day, Turkey’s offer to mediate between Israel and Hamas is drawing mixed reactions with...
The woman whose death in police custody sparked nationwide protests across Iran a year ago was an ethnic Kurd. Her real name was Jina, but her parents...
Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Masrour Barzani has appealed to President Joe Biden to intervene in a deepening crisis with the...
Morocco declared three days of mourning after a massive earthquake struck the country late Friday night, killing more than 2,000 people and damaging...