But wholesale political change does not make the country’s environmental problems – nor their consequences for stability – go away, as evidenced by a series of wildfires that ravaged Syria’s coastal ...

Ümit Özdağ, Turkish far-right leader, demands immediate deportation of Afghan refugees, calling for their return to home country.

The PKK disarmament ceremony also could mark a new era for the Kurds, one of the largest stateless groups in the world with over 30 million people living across Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The PKK ...

Tom Barrack’s call for Kurdish integration under a central Syrian government reflects a shift in US policy, drawing concern ...

Barrack, who took office as the US Ambassador to Ankara and Special Representative for Syria on 14 May, created a great deal ...