Turkey, a NATO member, has been one of Syria's main foreign allies since the ousting of president Bashar al-Assad last year. It has vowed to help train and restructure Syria's armed forces, rebuild the country and its state institutions, and support ...

The YPG’s failure to fulfill its commitment to integration poses regional security threat, Defense Ministry sources say while warning against

WASHINGTON -- Allied missiles struck at the heart of the Syrian chemical weapons arsenal, aiming to punish the Assad government for a suspected poison gas attack against civilians and deter the possible future use of such banned weapons. Pentagon officials ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — Russia on Wednesday withdrew a request to refuel a fleet of Russian warships in Spain, as Britain and NATO allies piled pressure on Madrid over concerns that the ships could be used to ramp up air attacks in Syria. Vasily Nioradze ...

Reintegrating Turkey into the F-35 program could lower costs, improve NATO airpower, and contain Russian influence, if Ankara complies with safeguards on its S-400 system and realigns with alliance standards. Removing Turkey from the F-35 program has ...

ANKARA (Reuters) -The Kurdish YPG militia, which spearheads the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), should stop "playing for time" and abide by its integration agreement with the Syrian government, Turkey's Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on ...

EXCLUSIVE: In a rare public rebuke of Israeli military action, Rep. Joe Wilson, R‑S.C., issued a harsh warning that recent airstrikes on Syria are "suicidal" for Tel Aviv. "I’m the co‑chair of the Israel caucus and a lifelong supporter of the State ...

Barely 40 miles from the Syrian border, Gaziantep, a booming Turkish city of 1.3 million people, seems worlds removed from the conflict engulfing its southern neighbor. Yet, signs of the war raging next door are not hard to find. The local economy ...

George Washington and America’s other Founders repeatedly expressed an aversion to “entangling alliances” that could snare their country in unnecessary and unwise conflicts. Unfortunately, recent generations of U.S. political and policy elites have thoroughly abandoned that wisdom.