Elif Shafak was charged with "insulting Turkishness" after the release of her book The Bastard of Istanbul. Speaking with ...

Fourteen years after Syria's civil war began, the nation's new Islamist government faces sectarian conflict on four fronts.

The image of the two men meeting, having discarded their military uniforms and put on suits, illustrates how leaders can ...

An entrepreneur, Emma Maame Efua Tandoh, has questioned whether the approach to gender equality has been misguided, arguing ...

United Nations-backed human rights experts allege Israel has caused “disproportionate violence against women and children” ...

Syrian security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar al-Assad's ...

A day before Syrian leader Ahmad Al Shara signed a deal with a Kurdish warlord to end hostilities in the resource-rich ...

For more than two years, a junior officer in the Syrian military, his sister and a friend risked their lives to collect evidence of the atrocities being committed by the regime. Their work changed the ...

This January, a Turkish court sentenced Sofya Alağaş, a Kurdish journalist and elected co-mayor of Siirt municipality, to six ...

More than 1,000 people have been killed in sectarian violence in Syria’s Latakia region. For the Kurds, the bloodshed only ...

Assad’s brutal regime was ousted on Dec. 8. But a Turkish-dominated Syria unsettles some of Ankara’s rivals in the Middle East ...