A U.S. citizen and suspected Islamic State group member who has spent three days in a no man’s land between Turkey and Greece after Ankara tried to deport him will be repatriated to the United States, Turkey’s Interior Ministry said Thursday.
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Turkish authorities have re-arrested a journalist a week after he was released from prison, where he had been serving a 10-year sentence on terror convictions.
Read moreTurkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and President Donald Trump will meet as relations between the two NATO allies are at their lowest point in decades, with Turkey turning toward Russia on security issues and Ankara facing a Washington backlash over attacks on Kurdish civilians during its invasion of Syria.
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When the U.S. House of Representatives launches open hearings into its impeachment inquiry on Wednesday, President Donald Trump will be hosting a head of state who shares his obsession about the so-called “deep state.”
Read moreTurkey on Monday deported a U.S. citizen who fought for the Islamic State as the government began sending back captured foreign fighters to their home countries, a Turkish official said.
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A senior U.S. diplomat has written a highly critical assessment of the Trump administration’s abrupt withdrawal of troops from northeast Syria, a decision that paved the way for an attack on U.S.-allied forces in the area, officials said Thursday.
Read moreCall it Schrödinger’s prosecution. Attorneys for a bank charged with the biggest money-laundering scheme to Iran ever alleged in a U.S. court, asserted before a federal judge Tuesday that their Turkish state-run client would not recognize the proceedings.
Read moreA Purple Heart-toting veteran, U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth has a string of missions targeting U.S.-Turkish relations in the Trump era. “I need to make sure that decisions that the commander-in-chief makes are ones that ultimate put the security of our nation first and the well-being of our troops second,” Duckworth emphasized. “And I wonder if that’s what’s happening here.”
Read moreA senior Turkish official says Turkey has captured the older sister of the slain leader of the Islamic State group in northwestern Syria, calling the arrest an intelligence “gold mine.”
Read moreEuropean countries are coming under more pressure to take back and prosecute their citizens who left Europe to fight for the Islamic State and who are now held in captivity in Syria and Turkey.
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Turkey and Russia launched joint patrols Friday in northeastern Syria, under a deal that halted a Turkish offensive against Syrian Kurdish fighters who were forced to withdraw from the border area after Ankara’s invasion.
Read moreShortly after a multibillion-dollar money-laundering scheme implicated the man who would become Turkey’s president in 2014, proxies for the Turkish government spent more than $1.7 million on their top lobbyists. A Courthouse News investigation found that figure more than quadrupled to about $7.3 million by 2018, with much of the money going to allies of President Donald Trump.
Read moreU.S. military forces patrolled part of Syria’s border with Turkey on Thursday in the first such move since Washington withdrew troops from the area this month.
Read moreArmenians on Wednesday rejoiced over the historic vote in the U.S. House of Representatives that recognized as “genocide” the mass killings of ethnic Armenians in the Ottoman Empire during the first World War.
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A week after President Donald Trump announced plans to lift sanctions on Turkey as part of a ceasefire, the House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a sweeping sanctions package against Turkish officials and financial institutions over the country’s invasion of northern Syria.
Read moreThe European Court of Human Rights ruled Tuesday that Turkey violated the rights of a Kurdish activist by not giving her a fair trial after her speech-related arrest.
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After the dramatic killing of the Islamic State group’s leader, the Pentagon is increasing U.S. efforts to protect Syria’s oilfields from the extremist group and from Syria itself and its Russian ally. It’s a new high-stakes mission even as American troops are withdrawn from other parts of the country.
Read moreRecep Tayyip Erdogan has launched legal proceedings against a French magazine which branded Turkey’s president “The Eradicator” after he sent troops into Syria to push back Kurdish forces, media reported Friday.
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As Russian and Turkish leaders divvy up security roles in northeast Syria after the abrupt U.S. troop withdrawal, President Donald Trump has asked a Kurdish military leader to protect oilfields elsewhere in the war-torn country.
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Turkish forces and their allies attacked Syrian government troops in northeastern Syria on Thursday, killing some of them, and also clashed with Kurdish-led fighters, the Syrian state news agency and a war monitoring group said.
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