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Turkey, Russia talk tensions in Syria as migrants push west

REYHANLI, Turkey (AP) — The presidents of Turkey and Russia spoke by phone Friday to try to defuse tensions that rose si...
18:23 28 February 2022

29 Turkish soldiers killed in northeast Syria air strike

BEIRUT (AP) — An air strike by Syrian government forces killed 29 Turkish soldiers in northeast Syria, a Turkish officia...
23:31 27 February 2022

Syrian war pulls in major foreign actors, increasing tension

BEIRUT (AP) — In northern Syria, heavy exchanges between Syrian and Turkish troops are erupting with more frequency, thr...
18:34 21 February 2022

Turkish soldiers killed in Syria amid threats of escalation

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Two Turkish soldiers were killed Thursday in an airstrike in northwestern Syria, Turkey said, afte...
20:27 20 February 2022

Turkey at risk of more confrontations with Syria and Russia

ANKARA, Turkey — Direct clashes between Turkish and Syrian troops amid a Syrian government offensive in the last rebel stronghold of Idlib province ar...
17:42 13 February 2022

Turkey says it has retaliated after deadly Syrian shelling

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey said it retaliated Monday after "intense" shelling by Syrian forces killed five of its soldiers and wounded five others in Syr...
19:14 10 February 2022

8 Turkish personnel, 13 Syrian troops killed in north Syria

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey hit targets in northern Syria, responding to shelling by Syrian government forces that killed at least eight Turkish soldiers ...
18:45 3 February 2022

Turkish rescuers find last quake victims; death toll hits 41

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkish emergency teams on Monday recovered the bodies of the last two missing quake victims from the rubble of a collapsed building,...
13:11 27 January 2022

Turkish teams hunt for quake survivors as death toll hits 38

ANKARA, Turkey — Working against the clock in freezing temperatures, Turkish rescue teams pulled more survivors from collapsed buildings Sunday, days ...
14:58 26 January 2022

At least 18 dead, hundreds hurt as quake hits eastern Turkey

ANKARA, Turkey — A 6.8-magnitude earthquake rocked a sparsely-populated part of eastern Turkey on Friday, killing at least 18 people, injuring more th...
0:04 25 January 2022

Turkish lawmakers authorize sending troops to fight in Libya

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's parliament on Thursday authorized the deployment of troops to Libya to support the U.N.-backed government in Tripoli that is...
16:17 2 January 2022

Turkey seeks parliament approval to dispatch troops to Libya

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's government on Monday submitted a motion to parliament seeking approval to deploy troops to Libya, arguing that the conflict ...
17:47 30 December 2022

Turkey deploys surveillance drone in northern Cyprus

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has dispatched a surveillance and reconnaissance drone to the breakaway north of ethnically divided island nation of Cyprus am...
14:30 16 December 2021

Turkey issues warrants for 133 officers over coup links

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey's state-run news agency says prosecutors have issued warrants for the detention of 133 military officers over suspected links ...
7:04 19 November 2021

American IS suspect repatriated from Turkish-Greek border

ANKARA, Turkey — An American citizen suspected of being an Islamic State group member was deported to the U.S. on Friday after spending five days in n...
14:42 15 November 2021

Turkey deports American IS suspect stuck at Greek border

ANKARA, Turkey — An American man suspected of being a member of the Islamic State group is being repatriated to the United States after spending three...
15:24 14 November 2021

Erdogan: Turkey captured slain IS leader al-Baghdadi’s wife

ANKARA, Turkey — Turkey has captured a wife of the slain leader of the Islamic State group, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdog...
21:19 6 November 2021

Turkey says its forces capture 18 Syrian soldiers in Syria

ISTANBUL — Turkish military forces captured 18 Syrian government soldiers in northeastern Syria, Turkey's defense minister said Thursday, in one of th...
21:27 31 October 2021

Syria’s Assad gets a prize with US withdrawal, Russia deal

BEIRUT — Once again, Syrian President Bashar Assad has snapped up a prize from world powers that have been maneuvering in his country's multi-front wa...
23:22 23 October 2021