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Prime Minister Erdogan emerged during the past decade as a transformative leader of Turkey, pledging to make his country a model of Muslim democracy while presiding over an economic miracle of China-like growth and building a new brand of neo-Ottoman
The Syrian army abandoned its last base near the northern town of Saraqeb after a fierce assault by rebels, further isolating the strategically important second city Aleppo from the capital. But in a political setback to forces battling to topple
Anti-government rebels killed 28 soldiers in attacks on 3 army checkpoints around Saraqeb, a town on Syria's main north-south highway. Some of the dead were shot after they had surrendered. Rebels berated them, calling them "Assad's Dogs",
Britain's foreign secretary William Hague has called on the fractured Syrian opposition to do more to unite, but said he hopeful that it can form a transition government.
A senior Russian general has said Syrian rebels have anti-aircraft weapons, including US-made Stingers. Gen Nikolai Makarov was quoted by the Interfax news service as saying the origin of the surface-to-air missiles should be "cleared up".
With sectarian spillover from the Syrian Civil War continuing to boil over in Lebanon over the weekend, Syrian rebel fighters attacked a group of Jordanian troops along the border, killing one and suggesting that yet another nation bordering Syria is
The US government is intensifying its intelligence sharing and military consultations with Turkey behind the scenes as both countries confront the Syria’s civil conflict could escalate into a regional war, according to US and NATO officials.
A prominent Lebanese intelligence official opposed to President Bashar al-Assad was killed in a huge car bomb in Beirut in another sign that Syria's civil war is dragging its volatile neighbor into the conflict.
Scores of Iraqi Shi'ite militants are fighting in Syria, often alongside President Bashar al-Assad's troops, and pledging loyalty to Iran's supreme Shi'ite religious leader, according to militia fighters and politicians in Iraq.
Turkey ordered an Armenian plane flying to the Syrian city of Aleppo to land and searched its cargo on Monday, in the latest move to prevent its airspace being used to supply the Syrian military. The plane was allowed to continue on its way after
Syria's rebellion may have just put themselves in the best possible to topple President Bashar al-Assad to date.
Rebels push Syrian army out of Maarat Al Numan as fighting over vital northern cities intensifies.
New evidence has emerged that the Syrian air force has used cluster munitions in recent days, Human Rights Watch said today.
Syria
A 40-year-old Ukrainian journalist collaborating with several Russian news outlets went missing in Syria. Colleagues and relatives believe she may have been kidnapped.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan rebuked the U.N. Security Council for inaction over Syria on Saturday as war intensified across the country, saying the world body of superpowers was repeating mistakes that led to massacres in Bosnia in the 1990
Syrian opposition fighters release video claiming they have captured more than 200 prisoners in the province of Idlib.
According to witnesses, Turkey scrambled two fighter jets to the Syrian border in response to an army helicopter bombing the Syrian border town of Azmarin, Reuters reported.
Syria
A plane intercepted by Turkish fighter jets on its way from Moscow to Damascus was carrying equipment and ammunition destined for the Syrian Defense Ministry, Turkey’s prime minister said. Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s comments follow a fierce denial by Syr
Turkish fighter jets forced a Syrian passenger plane to land in Ankara on amid suspicions that it may have been carrying arms, exacerbating already high tensions with Syria that have raised fears that a wider war may be imminent.
The US military has secretly sent a task force of more than 150 planners and other specialists to Jordan to help the armed forces there handle a flood of Syrian refugees, prepare for the possibility that Syria will lose control of its chemical weapon
NATO said it had drawn up plans to defend Turkey if necessary should the war in Syria spill over their border again as dozens of people were killed across the Arab nation on Tuesday.
Syria
Turkey has confirmed that it is deploying at least 25 additional F-16 fighter jets at its Diyarbakir air base close to the border with Syria.
Syria
Finally even the UN Security Council has recognized what many (mainstream media under the spell of the bogus Syrian Observatory excluded) have been pointing to all along: the "rebels" seeking to overthrow the Syrian government are terrorists.
Turkish provocation
Syria
Turkey’s parliament authorized the Turkish government to take military action against Syria, as the international community scrambled to defuse tensions heightened by a Syrian artillery strike a day earlier in which 5 Turkish civilians died.
