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The United States should keep arming and aiding the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) following the planned US withdrawal from Syria, provided the group keeps up the pressure on...

The last 7 days in pictures...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday that the final list of candidates tasked with drafting a new constitution for Syria will be formed “very soon”. This came during a...

Hatice Cengiz, the fiancée of slain Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, could have been killed alongside him, a new report has revealed. The Istanbul Security Directorate’s annual report revealed that...

Turkish police believe the remains of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi may have been burned, Turkey’s state-run news agency Anadolu said on Thursday, citing a police report. Khashoggi, a...

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia, Turkey and Iran had agreed to take unspecified extra steps to clear Syria’s Idlib region of what he called “a hotbed...

Turkey’s National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar met acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan in Brussels on Wednesday, Anadolu Agency reports. During the meeting, recent developments in Syria were discussed, according...

A group of Gaza Freedom Flotilla survivors gathered in London today to express their concern at a last-minute intervention by an Israeli NGO to halt International Criminal Court (ICC)...

A spokesman for Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), Omer Celik, said Monday that Saudi Arabia has not been cooperative on the murder case of Saudi journalist Jamal...

Dozens of relatives of foreign fighters including Iraqis, Turks, and Russians fled Daesh’s last bastion in eastern Syria on Tuesday as the jihadists lost ground to US-backed forces, Reuters reports....

Old tensions are bubbling to the surface

Arms imports to the Middle East were doubled during the period from 2013-2017, compared to the region’s total arms imports in the previous five years, the Munich Security Report...

Turkey’s National Defense Minister Hulusi Akar on Monday met his Russian counterpart Sergey Shoigu in the Turkish capital Ankara reports Anadolu Agency. Akar chaired talks with his Russian counterpart and the delegations...

Battling a sharp rise in food costs, Turkish authorities opened their own markets on Monday to sell cheap vegetables directly to shoppers, cutting out retailers who the government has...

China has slammed Turkey’s criticism of its policy against the country’s Uighur Muslim community, labelling the latter’s condemnation a “double standard”. Turkey broke its silence this weekend over China’s...

The United States is likely just weeks away from starting the withdrawal of ground troops from Syria ordered by President Donald Trump, the top US commander overseeing American forces...

Turkey called on China to close its internment camps for Muslims, saying the camps which reportedly hold a million ethnic Uighur people are a “great shame for humanity”. Last...

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It's cold and snowy in Turkey, and this fox is out looking for dinner

Yenal and Mustafa gather red clay from the river, and transform it into beautiful pottery!

The fiancée of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Friday she would welcome a change in Donald Trump’s approach to the killing, and may visit the United States...

The last 7 days in pictures

A United Nations-led inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said on Thursday that evidence pointed to a brutal crime “planned and perpetrated” by Saudi officials, reports...

The Pentagon claims that Daesh can re-group in Syria within months

Work to implement an agreement between Turkey and the United States over the Syrian town of Manbij has recently accelerated, Turkey’s foreign minister said on Wednesday, adding that Kurdish...

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government last year sold 73 tonnes of gold to Turkey and the United Arab Emirates without the required approval of the opposition-led National Assembly, an...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir was dismissed from his post over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. In an...

Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Zanganeh said yesterday that Turkey is the only European country that imports Iranian oil since US sanctions were introduced in November. The United States has...

Eight police officers were removed from office and a commission established for the investigation of the extradition of an Egypt citizen sentenced to death in Egypt, according to a statement...

The Russian delegation led by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s special envoy to Syria Alexander Lavrentiev and Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin discussed launching the Syrian Constitutional Committee, the...