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Fighting over Syria’s largest city intensified on Friday with some of the fiercest battles in two months as opposition forces launched a new offensive to rout President Bashar al-Assad’s...

Ankara has a major role to play in an EU that needs to transform itself, leading economist Kemal Derviş says, encouraging the country to face west rather than east....

Turkish politicians and public opinion leaders have welcomed remarks from German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressing her view that Islam has become a part of Germany and that she is...

There is plenty of focus on the downside risks to the US economy - the European crisis and recession, the slowdown in China, the US fiscal cliff and more...

The foul-mouthed actor tells a profanity-laced rhyming bedtime story calling on Americans to get out and vote for Barack Obama in November. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has accused...

President Barack Obama stridently revived his early rhetoric of national unity in Ohio on Wednesday, as his campaign denied that its strong position in the polls was leading to...

President Barack Obama enters the home stretch of his re-election campaign amid a still-struggling economy, with national polls showing him virtually tied with Republican challenger Mitt Romney. But Mr...

Mitt Romney entered the 2012 Republican presidential race as the presumed front-runner. And he maintained that status as one challenger after another rose to meet him only to self-destruct....

Democracy can be associated with such noble principles and notions as freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, freedom to discuss everything, pluralism, transparency and accountability.   However, some would...

‘Çanakkale Çocukları’ (The Children of Çanakkale)   Turkey, 1915: The country is fighting on several fronts during the early years of World War I and Gallipoli, near Çanakkale, is...