After dinner with the Kurdish family with whom we are staying, we sit down in front of the TV. The host flicks through the ...

"I want to emphasise this fact in the strongest terms: the PKK is targeting Turkey, Iraq, and Syria. For the future of our region and the prosperity of our people, we must mount a joint fight ...

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Before the fall of Assad, the SDF was the United States' main local partner in the fight against Islamic State in Syria. Speaking alongside his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein, Fidan said he had ...

where Turkey has carried out successive ground operations to push the fighters away from its border. The Kurdish forces there are seen by the West as essential in the fight against IS.

Last year, Baghdad quietly listed the group as a "banned organisation" -- though Ankara demands that the Iraqi government do more in the fight against the militant group. Turkey along with the ...

The government said the cuts the opposition passed in parliament ... to fight global uncertainties 7:52 AM UTC Ahmed al-Sheikh's excitement at returning to his homeland from neighbouring Turkey ...

Vandan is among those personalities who have become prominent in Turkey due to their provocative posts and outrageous sexual accusations. She garnered over 416,000 Instagram followers since ...

Istanbul, Turkey — A fire engulfed a hotel at a ski resort in northwestern Turkey on Tuesday, killing at least 76 people and injuring at least 51 more, the interior minister said. Witnesses said ...

CAPE TOWN - Parliament’s Justice Committee says it wants the government to fight tooth and nail against a legal challenge mounted against a new Broad-Based Black Economic Empowerment code aimed ...

Turkey has detained nine people, including the owner of the hotel, in connection with a deadly fire that claimed the lives of 76 people and injured dozens at a ski resort in the west of the ...

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