However, since the 1980's Syria and Iraq, the southern neighbors of Turkey, have put forward some claims regarding the waters of Euphrates and Tigris originating from Turkey. These countries have tried various methods to hinder the workings on these rivers started by Turkey. Turkey states that ...
The rebel offensive in Syria has caused concern among neighboring countries that the conflict could spill over. In Iraq, Interior Ministry spokesperson Brig. Gen. Miqdad Miri said security forces have deployed in greater numbers to protect their large border with Syria....
Turkey, often described as a difficult partner with much of the West, long has resisted being used as a launching pad for foreign troops to attack neighboring nations. Now, however, Turkey faces threats from militants who have overtaken much of northern Syria and Iraq, as well as from Kurdish...
"Ankara said many months ago that it will make everything in its power to eliminate the terrorist threat at its borders and is now doing it, so an incursion in Iraq after Syria will not come as a big surprise," Oytun Orhan, a researcher at the Ankara-based think tank ORSAM, told Xin...
In Syria, already wrecked by more than 11 years of civil war, the health ministry said 711 people had been killed. In the Syrian rebel-held northwest emergency workers said 733 people had died. The United Nations says 4.1 million people, many of them displaced by the conflict and living in...
Turkey, the second largest army in NATO after the U.S., is now fighting hard against the PKK on its soil but also in neighboring Iraq and Syria.
The Kurds are an ethnic group with their own language living in a region spanning present-day Turkey, Iraq, Syria, Iran and Armenia. The Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, has fought Turkey for autonomy for Kurds in a conflict that has claimed tens of thousands of lives since 1984. ...
The rebel offensive in Syria has caused concern among neighboring countries that the conflict could spill over. In Iraq, Interior Ministry spokesperson Brig. Gen. Miqdad Miri said security forces have deployed in greater numbers to protect their large border with Syria. ...
Following an attack in Ankara, Turkey has conducted strikes in northern Iraq and northern Syria against Kurdish targets, including militia, for a second day running. The US-allied Syrian Democratic Forces claimed the attacks hit bakeries, checkpoints and
ANKARA, Turkey-- Turkey's deputy prime minister said Monday the number of Syrian refugees who've reached his nation in the past four days after fleeing the advance of militants from theIslamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)totaled 130,000. And, he said, that number could rise. ...