Unofficial election returns show him with enough votes to serve another term, one that carries new executive powers. Critics had warned about re-electing Erdogan, citing his increasingly autocratic tendencies.
This article was first posted in 2017 shortly after the U.S. fired missiles into Syria in reaction to reports that the government there had used chemical weapons. In it, Chris Hedges argues that the Middle East will not know peace until the U.S. leaves the region.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan achieves an important objective by taking control of a key area from Kurdish fighters.
Parallel offensives waged by Turkey and the Syrian government on separate towns on Monday compound a 'catastrophic' humanitarian situation.
One of the most distressing takeaways from the country's civil war is that the United Nations does not work and the hopes of the framers of its 1945 charter have been dashed.
As Syrian President Bashar Assad’s fight against Islamic State draws to a close, violence has exploded in other areas, threatening an even broader confrontation among regional and world powers.
His planned parade is spectacle, not strategy, but it defines America’s growing militarism.
The hopes of the Trump administration to use the Syrian Kurds as a wedge against the government of Bashar Assad in Damascus may be rapidly fading.
Ankara's appeal for NATO support for its military campaign receives a cool reception from the United States.
“We will crush anyone who opposes our national struggle,” President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says in a warning to Kurdish activists.
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