Syrian opposition leaders will be meeting in Qatar next week to revamp the structure of the Syrian National Council (SNC). The meeting will focus on the election of new leaders and ensuring the body is more representative of minority opposition ...

U.S. Vice Chairman of the Join Chiefs of Staff Admiral James Winnefeld visited Turkey to discuss proving assistance to help combat the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK). U.S. Ambassador to Turkey Francis Ricciardone said the U.S. is sharing tactics that ...

U.N. Under-Secretary-General for Peace Keeping Operations, Herve Ladsous, confirmed that plans are underway regarding a peacekeeping force to Syria, should the regime and the opposition agree to a cease-fire. The final decision will be contingent upon the U.N.-Arab ...

U.S. Acting Under Secretary for arms control and international security Rose Gottemoeller is in Ankara for talks on the Syrian crisis. "We continue to consult with our partners in the region, including Turkey, on a variety of issues related to Syria," ...

On his 100th day as president of Egypt, Mohamed Morsi issued a general amnesty for all protesters and political prisoners arrested between January 25, 2011 and June 30, 2012 in connection to the revolution, excluding those charged with murder. Morsi had ...

After the Syrian military shelled the Turkish border town of Ackakale, killing five Turkish citizens, Turkish Prime Minister Recept Tayyip Erdogan responded by proclaiming, “Under the rules of engagement and international law, Turkey will never let the ...

U.N. Security Council members remain deeply divided on how to deal with the Syrian crisis, while both Syria and Iran have expressed discontent with perceived meddling in the conflict. "We heard calls from this podium, and on other platforms, ...

Forty-four journalists went on trial this week in the largest trial ever involving the media in Turkish history. Accused of being members of the Union of Kurdistan Communities (KCK), which has been called the urban wing of the PKK by the ...

Several hundred protesters rallied at the U.S. embassy in Cairo on September 11. Reports indicate that many scaled the walls of the embassy, including a few who took down the U.S. flag and replaced it with a black flag bearing ...

Turkey has withheld some 9000 people fleeing conflict in Syria have been temporarily as it struggles to cope with the growing refugee populations. A Turkish official told Rueters, "We have run out of space to house these people. We ...

A new draft abortion law in Turkey would require women to listen to the fetal heartbeat and watch a video on the procedure before finalizing their decision. The commission drafting the law at the request of Prime Minister Recep ...

A Turkish opposition member of parliament, Huseyin Aygun, was kidnapped Sunday with early reports indicating that the MP had been taken by members of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK). Aygun, from the  opposition Republican ...

Kurdish rebels with the PKK launched simultaneous attacks on three military posts in Hakkari province near the Iraqi border Sunday, killing 14 rebels, 6 soldiers, and 2 village guards. The Turkish government responded sharply by sending reinforcements and attack ...

With violence in Damascus and Aleppo rising, Syria's ambassador to the U.A.E. has defected to Qatar, following his wife, the Syrian envoy to Cyprus, who defected Tuesday. Abdelatif al-Dabbagh and Lamia al-Hariri are the second and third most senior ...

Turkey gave a warning to Syria today with Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan telling parliament that if the latter country's troops approached the border, they would be considered a military threat. Syria downed a Turkish jet last week ...