Middle East

Turkey to set up camps in Syria for displaced people

ANKARA — Turkey says it will establish camps for 170,000 displaced people in the Idlib province and in Turkish-controlled areas to the east of it ahead of a possible refugee influx...

US coalition asks for pause in hostilities in Northwest Syria

WASHINGTON — The U.S.-led coalition battling the Islamic State (IS) is asking for a pause in fighting in Northwest Syria where the Turkish government and its allied Syrian militias are fighting...

Aid convoys reach Syria’s Eastern Ghouta, but retreat after shelling

WASHINGTON — An international convoy of humanitarian aid trucks cut short its mission to Syria’s besieged eastern Ghouta region after government forces continued their aerial bombardment and ground assault against the...

Unemployment leads dozens of youths to join IS ranks in Eastern Afghanistan

WASHINGTON, GHAZNI, AFGHANISTAN — Provincial officials in eastern Nangarhar province expressed concerns over the dozens of youths in the province recruited by Islamic State (IS). "I have received reports from districts that...

Syria’s Assad: Offensive against East Ghouta rebels will continue

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad vowed Sunday that his military's offensive against rebels in the Damascus suburb of east Ghouta will continue, even while U.S. and British leaders accuse him of creating...

17 people killed in Turkish air raids in Syria

BEIRUT/ISTANBUL — Turkish warplanes attacked two positions of pro-Syrian government forces overnight, killing at least 17 people in the northwestern Kurdish enclave of Afrin, the British-based monitoring group Syrian Observatory for...

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