Washington dispatched a top envoy to meet with allied Kurdish forces inside Syria last week, a State Department official said Monday, following tensions after Turkey began operations in the war-torn country. Washington found itself trapped between two key allies who are bitter foes — NATO partner Turkey, and the Syrian ...
Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel said Sunday she hoped Ankara would soon lift a ban on German lawmakers visiting a Turkish airbase that was imposed amid a row over the Armenian genocide. Turkey last month stopped German MPs from visiting their troops stationed at the Incirlik base in southern Turkey. After ...