BRUSSELS — NATO is ready to defend Turkey, the alliance's top official said Tuesday, in a direct warning to Syria after a week of cross-border artillery and mortar exchanges dramatically escalated ...

NATO will send Patriot surface-to-air missiles and more anti-missile system equipment to Turkey, the alliance said Tuesday, in an effort to help protect the member country from its neighbor Syria's ...

Turkey launched an offensive against the Kurdish YPG militia on Saturday in their enclave of Afrin, supporting Syrian rebels with air strikes and ground troops. "All nations have the right to defend ...

Syria is conducting repression of its own people without interference, and, in Libya, Moammar Gadhafi is hanging on longer than expected. Is NATO prepared to protect civilians for humanitarian reasons ...

A Russian navy ship is pictured in the Mediterranean Sea off the port city of Tartus in western Syria on Dec. 17, 2024. (Bakr Alkasem/AFP via Getty Images) MILAN — NATO officials have been tracking a ...

FILE PHOTO: Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan chats with press members ahead of the NATO Foreign Ministers Meeting in Antalya ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) - The foreign ministers of Turkey, the United ...

Chuck Hagel, who's had some experience avoiding dumb wars, was strikingly confident about U.S. military plans against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in an interview Tuesday with the BBC. "We are ...

BRUSSELS A senior Israeli military intelligence official said Tuesday that Syrian President Bashar Assad had used chemical weapons last month, while elsewhere U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged ...

Syria is conducting bloody repression of its own people without interference. Some 8500 Syrians have fled across the border into Turkey and thousands more may be making their way on trucks, tractors ...