After days of back and forth over President Donald Trump’s decision to pull American troops from Syria, a U.S. military official said Friday the withdrawal has begun, declining to comment on specific timetables or movements.
Read moreWhite House national security adviser John Bolton’s attempt to clarify the government’s position on removing American forces from Syria prompted a series of conflicting messages and attacks on the media from President Donald Trump on Monday.
Read moreU.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton has arrived in Turkey for negotiations on the fate of American-allied Kurdish fighters in Syria.
Read moreU.S. troops will not leave northeastern Syria until Islamic State militants are defeated and American-allied Kurdish fighters are protected, national security adviser John Bolton said Sunday, indicating a pause to a withdrawal abruptly announced last month and initially expected to be completed within weeks.
Read moreThe United States’ main ally in Syria on Thursday categorically rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that Islamic State group militants have been defeated and warned that the withdrawal of American troops before accomplishing that goal would lead to a resurgence of the extremist group.
Read moreA Turkish court has rejected an appeal to release the former head of Turkey’s pro-Kurdish opposition from pre-trial detention, despite a ruling by the European Court of Human Rights.
Read moreA now-defunct Danish TV network slapped with a criminal conviction and license revocation for broadcasting what Denmark said was terrorism-friendly programming lost its challenge at Europe’s human rights court, which ruled Thursday the broadcasts were propaganda and not protected speech.
Read moreAs Turkey threatens a bloody confrontation with a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia in the main Syrian Kurdish enclave in northwestern Syria, it faces the challenge of maintaining its old alliance with Washington and reinforcing a new rapprochement with Moscow.
Read moreHundreds of passengers lined up in the hours before an Iraqi government order that international airlines halt all flights in and out of the cities of Irbil and Sulaimaniyah in Kurdish territory kicks in Friday.
Read moreHundreds of passengers waited to board flights out of the Kurdish region at Irbil International Airport on Thursday after Baghdad threatened to ban flights following an independence referendum held by Iraq’s Kurds earlier this week.
Read moreThe Kurdish referendum on independence from Iraq was approved by more than 92 percent of voters, officials said Wednesday, as Iraq’s prime minister vowed to keep his country united without resorting to the use of force.
Read moreIran’s semi-official ISNA news agency reports that the country’s defense minister has expressed concerns over the security implications of a referendum in the Kurdistan region of Iraq.
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Iraqi Kurds cast ballots on Monday in their autonomous region and in a wide sweep of captured territories on whether to seek independence from Baghdad, a historic vote that has also raised tensions and fears of instability.
Read moreIraq’s top court on Monday temporarily suspended the northern Kurdish region’s referendum on independence that’s due next week, a decision that put further pressure on the Iraqi Kurds to call off the controversial vote.
Read moreTurkey’s pro-Kurdish political party has announced the release from prison of one of its lawmakers pending a trial on terror charges.
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WASHINGTON (CN) – Federal prosecutors on Tuesday announced indictments against 19 people with ties to Turkey’s government who are accused
Read moreProsecutors unveiled assault charges Thursday against 16 people over the violence against protesters that erupted last month when Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan visited the White House.
Read moreThe Virginia man captured on the Islamic State group’s battlefield in Syria, was convicted Wednesday of providing material support to a terrorist organization.
Read moreIslamic State deserter Mohamed Khweis was on the verge of tears Tuesday as he insisted to jurors, after almost six hours on the witness stand, that he loves America.
Read moreThe young Virginia man who smuggled himself into an Islamic State safe house in Syria faces cross-examination Tuesday after testifying that it was never his intention to become a terrorist.
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