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Turkey wants to normalise relations with Syria, the prime minister said Friday, confirming a policy shift after years of supporting rebels opposed to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad. “We have normalised our relations with Russia and Israel,” Binali Yildirim said in a televised speech. “Now, God […]

Depending on how a handful of swing states choose in November, the next president will either target every undocumented immigrant in the country for deportation or provide millions with work permits instead. Experts from all sides of the immigration spectrum say the policy gap between […]

The FBI on Friday released notes from its interview with Hillary Clinton and the investigation into her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state. The notes which total 58 pages, including 14 that are redacted in full, provide more insight […]

Russo-American talks on the Syrian ceasefire and military cooperation may bear fruit, although Moscow and Washington still have a number of questions and details to think through, managing editor for Veterans Today Jim W. Dean writes. The much-anticipated ceasefire agreement and the US-Russian military cooperation […]

Russia and the United States are closer to “very limited and goal-oriented,” yet highly efficient cooperation when it comes to resolving the Syrian crisis and tackling global terrorism than it might seem, New York-based political analyst and consultant Nikolay Pakhomov wrote for the National Interest. […]

Russia and the United States are rumored to be close to reaching an agreement on joint measures to halt fighting in and around Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city. Turkey’s ground offensive in northern Syria, formally known as Operation Euphrates Shield, “could play a major role […]

As the situation in Syria is steadily deteriorating, any kind of breakthrough in the Russo-American negotiations is needed to pave the way for halting the ongoing bloodbath in the region, Swedish journalist Gunilla von Hall writes, adding that events on the ground have begun to […]

Brutal murders in Syria and Iraq recently conducted by Daesh terrorists have once again shown the weakness of US President Obama’s doctrine, journalist Oliver Grimm wrote for Austrian newspaper Die Presse. US fighter jets in Syria © Flickr/ U.S. Department of Defense US-Led Coalition Hits […]

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s president denied Friday claims by U.S. officials that Syrian Kurdish rebels fighting Turkish forces in northern Syria have withdrawn east of the Euphrates River. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said as he departed for the G20 meeting in China, “they tell us that YPG […]