A letter by President Trump last week, warning Mr. Erdogan in blunt terms against the incursion, threatened to make the shuttle diplomacy by Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo more difficult.
July was the deadliest month for noncombatants in Afghanistan since the organization began tracking such figures a decade ago.
President Trump’s troop withdrawal ignited a predicted outburst of chaos and carnage in the Middle East.
“I hate ISIS more than you do,” President Trump said. “You don’t know that,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi replied. Here’s the rest of their exchange.
“I hate ISIS more than you do,” President Trump said. “You don’t know that,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi replied. Here’s the rest of their exchange.
The president wrongly claimed that a violent Kurdish separatist group was “more of a terrorist threat” than ISIS, among other inaccurate claims.
President Trump again defends his decision to withdraw American troops, an order that many, including Republicans, have interpreted as acquiescing to Turkey’s incursion against a United States ally.
Twelve Democratic presidential candidates shared the stage in Ohio for the fourth televised primary debate.
Twelve Democratic presidential candidates shared the stage in Ohio for the fourth televised primary debate.
Aid groups and the government of the West African nation have been at a loss to respond to a fast-moving emergency, set off by lawlessness and suspected terrorist attacks in a once-tranquil country.
The violence precipitated by the American withdrawal is an outcome of tensions that have been building since the conflict began more than eight years ago.
The Pentagon will have to disassemble combat bases that were built to stay for a mission that was supposed to last, and protect the troops as they withdraw amid a chaotic battlefield.
For months, analysts have outlined how such a move would risk upsetting the fragile balance of power in a complex war.
As the United States withdraws from Syria, Russia is stepping in, running patrols to separate warring factions, striking deals and helping President Bashar al-Assad advance.
The surprise American withdrawal from parts of northern Syria reshuffled old alliances and touched off a new stage of the eight-year war.
As desperate Kurds ally with Assad in Syria, the specter of the Islamic State threatens again, and American power dims.
Syrian government forces streamed into the country’s northeast, filling a vacuum opened up by President Trump’s decision to pull back in Syria.
The trial has shed new light on the role of women in homegrown terrorism in France.
A radical political experiment is in peril.
The Americans promised they would protect his people. Now, one Kurdish leader is forced to turn to former foes for help.
Hours after the Kurds forged a deal with the Syrian government, an American foe, the Syrian Army raced northwest to help battle Turkish-led forces.
Hours after reaching an agreement with Kurdish forces, the Syrian Army entered a key town near the Turkish border — a significant shift in the power dynamic.
As the Turkish invasion leads to deteriorating security in northern Syria, the custody of about 11,000 captive ISIS fighters — and many thousands more detained ISIS women and children — is in doubt.
What they need is American leadership to help them make peace.
As Turkish forces cross into Kurdish areas of northern Syria, the orders from Washington to U.S. troops are simple: Stand back. Let the Kurds fight for themselves.
Under fire by Turkish forces, the militia that battled ISIS threw in its lot with Syria’s Russian-backed government.
President Trump’s acquiescence to a Turkish raid on the Kurds in northern Syria alarmed allies for its unpredictability as much as its betrayal.
The killings of Kurdish prisoners by Arab fighters, one of which was captured on video, raised the specter of wider sectarian warfare as fighting in Syria escalates.
The killings, one of them caught on video, raised the specter of wider sectarian warfare as fighting in Syria escalates.
Under Trump, the U.S. becomes the world’s fair-weather friend.
The warning comes after Turkey launched military operations against the American military’s Kurdish allies in Syria.
The Turkish foreign minister says the military operation is necessary for national security and to help displaced Syrians return home.
A prison break and a bombing claimed by the Islamic State punctuated fears that the Turkish invasion, now in its third day, was sowing mayhem.
Having upended Middle East policy, the president is now trying to find a way to reverse the consequences as Turkish forces bombard the Kurdish fighters who helped overpower ISIS.
Diane Foley, mother of James W. Foley, the first American hostage of the Islamic State to be beheaded, said she hoped the ISIS prisoners believed responsible do not escape custody as Syria plunges into a volatile new phase.
Readers express dismay at the president’s actions, and one wonders, “So what’s in it for Donald J. Trump?”
Kurds may not have been present at the D-Day landings, but there is evidence some fought for the Allies during World War II.
Mr. Trump said that Ibrahim al-Asiri, among the world’s most feared terrorist operatives of the past decade, was killed in Yemen, but did not explain why confirming his death took so long.
Turkey’s attack on Kurdish strongholds along the Syrian border has been years in the making.
Turkey’s attack on Kurdish strongholds along the Syrian border has been years in the making.
A married couple used knives and scissors to assault the minister, a former general, leaving him with two stomach wounds.
A married couple used knives and scissors to assault the minister, a former general, leaving him with two stomach wounds.
Turkish forces kill at least 23 Kurdish fighters and seize 11 towns. The Kurdish-led militia punches back but quits anti-ISIS operations.
The military is taking several dozen men out of Kurdish-run wartime prisons in Syria as Turkey invades the region.
On Wednesday, Turkey announced that it was beginning an assault on a Kurdish-led militia in northeastern Syria. How did the two American allies get here?
Vivian Yee and Hwaida Saad, who cover the Middle East, have found Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and YouTube vital to getting information out of Syria.
Turkey moved ahead with plans to send forces into northeastern Syria, which a U.S.-backed Kurdish militia said would cause a “humanitarian catastrophe.”
Turkey began a military operation against a Kurdish-led militia in Syria after getting a green light from President Trump. Two people were reported killed.
Withdrawing troops in Syria pleases Turkey but endangers Kurds fighting the Islamic State.
Turkey’s president said a Syrian operation was imminent but confusion remained over President Trump’s Syria policy.
President Trump’s promise to withdraw troops from Syria could leave one of America’s closest partners in the region more vulnerable to attack.
Another round of contradictory signals from the White House shakes allies’ trust and puts lives at risk.
The Pentagon is scrambling to respond to the words of a president who views Syria and the fight against ISIS as a battle largely won and done for American troops.
Thousands of Islamic State prisoners of war from around the world are being detained by the Syrian Kurd forces whom Turkey plans to target.
Analysts said the redeployment would betray America’s Syrian Kurdish allies, decrease American leverage in Syria and open a void that could benefit Iran, Russia and the Islamic State.
President Trump has demonstrated that in his pursuit of ending America’s “endless wars,” no troop presence abroad is too small to escape his desire to terminate it.
President Trump’s decision to clear the way for a Turkish military operation drew criticism from top Republicans. The president pivoted Monday morning, saying he would prevent Turkey from going too far.
Kurdish fighters in northern Syria partnered with the United States to fight the Islamic State, but may find themselves facing Turkey’s military alone.
The operation would sweep away American-backed Kurdish forces near the border in Syria. The White House said U.S. forces “will no longer be in the immediate area.”
American counterterrorism officials are voicing alarm about a Qaeda affiliate in Syria that they say is plotting attacks from the country’s northwest.
The Pentagon carried out its third airstrike in a week against ISIS fighters in Libya amid signs the group was seeking to increase its recruiting.
Struggling Afghan forces took three northern districts from the Taliban. But the cost was high, and troops depend on American airstrikes to hold on.
The American military carried out an airstrike Thursday against Islamic State fighters in southern Libya in a reminder of the terrorist group’s resilience.
James Verini is out with “They Will Have to Die Now,” a book about the battle of Mosul and its consequences.
A judge denied bail to the employee, who the authorities said told federal agents he had tampered with the plane because he was upset about an impasse over a union contract.