Turkey warns Syria against Aleppo assault

A Syrian rebel fighter loads his machine gun during clashes with regime forces. (Guillaume Briquet/AFP/) ISTANBUL, Turkey -- After more than two years of bloody civil

The US has been assisting Turkey and Arab nations boost their arms deliveries to Syrian rebels in recent months as the armed opposition attempts to unseat Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the New York Times reported.

That may be the best word to describe the dangerously complex, ever-shifting geopolitical reality developing from Turkey across Syria to Iran and Iraq, and threatening to drown tiny Jordan in a tsunami of refugees from war and fratricide. The ...

AL-SALAMA, Syria — A crowd gathers at the center of Bab al-Salam, a refugee camp on the Turkey-Syria border that is home to some 13,500 internally displaced Syrians. Children sit at their mothers' feet, playing with plastic toys in the melting ...

Four Belgian nationals trying to pass into Syria were arrested by Turkish police on the border on Wednesday. Belgian officials said the group were planning to fight in the Syrian civil war and had already been sent back to Belgium on June 17. Four ...

Assad's troops are starting an offensive to regain the rebel-dominated north and remaining rebel strongholds around Damascus. Rebels attacked a main highway in northern Syria on Wednesday, opposition groups said, to try to choke off a major supply ...

The rising number of Syrian refugees has skyrocketed Turkey's ranking among the most important refugee-hosting countries from 59th to 10th in 2012, a study by the United Nations refugee agency showed yesterday. Combined with other refugee ...

By Emad Abshenass After Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was elected prime minister of Turkey, one of the first countries to congratulate him was Syria and Damascus-Ankara relations attained high levels. Maybe some may not remember but I do not forget how ...

Turkeys foreign minister said today that Turkish authorities were conducting blood tests on wounded Syrian refugees to assess whether their injuries had been caused by chemical weapons.