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The Turkish parliament has extended the government’s mandate to order military strikes against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants holed up in northern Iraq for another year. The motion,...

Syria has accused Turkey of lying over its claim that a Syria-bound plane forced to land in Ankara was carrying Russian-made defence equipment. Syria's foreign ministry challenged Turkish PM...

It would be a mistake to write off threats of war against Syria from Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as mere bluster, assuming that Turkey will maintain the...

As the summer officially came to an end this Labor Day weekend, the major studios were in a funk. Theater revenue from early May through early September (when Hollywood...

US vice-presidential candidates Joe Biden and Paul Ryan are set to meet in their only debate, as polling suggests the US election race is tightening. Vice-President Biden and Mr...

To find out who shaded the truth most, TIME asked each campaign for a list of its rival’s worst deceptions. After examining those claims and consulting independent fact-checking websites,...

Pakistani surgeons removed a bullet on Wednesday from a 14-year-old girl shot by the Taliban for speaking out against the militants and promoting education for girls, doctors said. Malala Yousufzai was...

Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki said Thursday no arms were being smuggled across his country's 600-kilometre (375-mile) border into conflict-torn Syria. "We stress that no weapons go to Syria...

This may be the most mysterious presidential election I've ever covered. Both candidates are enigmas. Mitt Romney is a traditional political conundrum: he's stood on so many sides of...

On a recent Monday, Khatab, a 28-year-old former factory worker, sipped bitter coffee, leaned against an unpainted wall of a small house in the northern Syrian province of Idlib,...