Turkish authorities have detained a prominent investigative journalist and four of his colleagues and replaced an elected pro- Kurdish mayor with a state appointee on ...

The full scale of the humanitarian challenge ahead is emerging as displaced Palestinians return home, writes the BBC's .

Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture, could be any suburb in the Tokyo orbit. Population 600,000. Thirty minutes by train from the metropolitan core, where many residents work, though local industry ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Sunday after talks in Baghdad that a joint battle using "all our resources" must be carried out to eliminate both Islamic State and Kurdish militants in ...

UN High Commissioner Filippo Grandi calls for improved living conditions in Syria as 200,000 refugees return from ...

The United Nations refugee chief says some 200,000 refugees have returned to Syria from neighboring countries since the ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan will visit Iraq on Sunday for talks with officials on the fight against Kurdish militants, security issues and bilateral ties, a Turkish diplomatic source said on ...

More than 50,000 Syrian refugees have left Turkey to return home since Bashar al-Assad's ouster. But for many others living ...

Two ethnic Kurdish women, Pakhshan Azizi and Warisha Moradi, face possible imminent execution in Iran, Human Rights Watch ...

No country has as much to gain from a stable Syria as Turkey, and few have as much to lose if it implodes. Turkey is home to ...

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan underscored the need to grant Syria's new administration the opportunity to confront the issue of Kurdish militants operating within its borders. He emphasised ...

But as a new government takes shape in Damascus, Syrians and foreign observers alike worry about how inclusive, ...