European markets closed lower Friday afternoon as traders await signals as to whether a Brexit deal agreed between the U.K. and EU will pass muster with British lawmakers in parliament.
The pan-European Stoxx 600 ended provisionally lower by 1.15 (...)
Cambodian police have arrested the Turkish-Mexican former director of a school run by the movement of U.S.-based Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara blames for a failed 2016 coup, his wife said on Friday.
Osman Karaca, former director of (...)
A fragile ceasefire was holding along Turkey's border with Syria on Saturday, two days after President Tayyip Erdogan agreed the truce to allow Kurdish forces time to pull back from Ankara's cross-border assault.
Erdogan agreed the truce during (...)
Turkey will set up a dozen observation posts across northeast Syria, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, insisting that a planned "safe zone" will extend much farther than U.S. officials said was covered under a fragile ceasefire deal.
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U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday that Washington will impose no further sanctions on Turkey once there is a ceasefire in northern Syria, and that it will withdraw existing sanctions once the Turkish military operation is done.
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President Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey would press on with its offensive into northeastern Syria and "crush the heads of terrorists" if a deal with Washington on the withdrawal of Kurdish fighters from the area were not fully (...)
Shelling and gunfire resounded around the northeast Syrian town of Ras al Ain on Friday, a day after Turkey agreed with the United States to pause its offensive in Syria for five days to let Kurdish forces withdraw.
Machine-gun fire and shelling (...)
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo underscored US-Israeli efforts to counter Iran in talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Friday, in an apparent attempt to ease concerns in Israel that Tehran could exploit a US military pullback in (...)
Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan told reporters after Friday prayers in Istanbul that Turkey will continue its offensive into northeast Syria more rapidly than before if an agreement with the United States to pause the operation and allow the (...)
France's president on Friday bemoaned Turkey's offensive into northern Syria as "madness" and decried the North Atlantic Organisation's (NATO) inability to react to the assault as a "serious mistake."
"I consider what's happened in the last few days (...)
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نشرت صحيفة "نيويورك تايمز" الأمريكية نص خطاب الرئيس الأمريكى دونالد ترامب لرئيس تركيا رجب طيب أردوغان، الذى دعاه (...)
استهزأ الرئيس التركي، رجب طيب أردوغان، من قدرة نظيره الأمريكي، دونالد ترامب، على التغريد السريع، والذي كان يرسل إشارات متضاربة بشأن العملية العسكرية التركية في شمال سوريا.
وقال "أردوغان" للصحفيين أثناء عودته من قمة في أذربيجان، حسبما نقلت صحيفة (...)
President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended as strategically brilliant his decision to pull US troops out of Syria as the House of Representatives overwhelmingly condemned the move in a rare bipartisan rebuke.
A total of 129 members of Trump's (...)
U.S. President Donald Trump wrote a letter to Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan calling on him to "work out a good deal!" and warning him not to be a "tough guy" or "fool."
"History will look upon you favorably if you get this done the right (...)
President Donald Trump on Wednesday defended as "strategically brilliant" his decision to pull US troops out of Syria as the House of Representatives overwhelmingly condemned the move in a rare bipartisan rebuke.
A total of 129 members of Trump's (...)
US President Donald Trump defended his actions in Syria Wednesday as "strategically brilliant," describing the Kurdish rebel PKK, who have waged a decades-long insurgency against Ankara, were "probably" a bigger terror threat than the Islamic State (...)
US Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday he had reached a deal with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan for a ceasefire in northern Syria to end an eight-day-old Turkish offensive against Kurdish-led forces.
Speaking after crisis talks with (...)
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence met President Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey on Thursday on a mission to persuade him to halt an offensive against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, but Turkish officials said the action would continue regardless.
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday hailed "great news" following talks between his vice president and Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan on a ceasefire in northern Syria.
"Great news out of Turkey," Trump tweeted, shortly before Vice President (...)
Several Arab capitals have relayed messages to Syrian ruler Bashar Al-Assad in the last week, demanding he engage more constructively with the UN-sponsored political settlement mechanism, in the hope that doing so will help push attempts to (...)
After what looked like a green light from the US to Turkey to start military operations in northern Syria, the Turkish invasion of the country began on the evening of 9 October.
Within days, the US position seemed muddled and confused, however, and (...)
The most devastating result of the military offensive launched by Turkish forces in alliance with the Syrian opposition in northern Syria is the humanitarian disaster that is getting worse by the day.
A week following the launch of Operation Spring (...)
Not since the “coup attempt” of mid-June 2016 has there been such a boisterous mobilisation of pro-Erdogan media. The drum rolls thundered and the fanfare blared, ushering in the so-called “Spring of Peace” operation. State-run media are on duty (...)
French President Emmanuel Macron was headed for a clash with German Chancellor Angela Merkel this week after Paris was isolated on Tuesday in opposing starting membership talks with North Macedonia.
Denmark and the Netherlands sided with the French (...)
Turkey vowed to press ahead with its offensive in northern Syria on Tuesday despite U.S. sanctions and growing calls for it to stop, while Syria's Russia-backed army moved on the key city of Manbij that was abandoned by U.S. forces.
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