Syria

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has declared that the PYD in Syria and the PKK are the same for Turkey.

The number of illegal immigrants, seeking shelter in Bulgaria grew exponentially in September, shows data of the State Refugee Agency, quoted by Dnevnik.bg.

Only in September 6776 people sought refugee status in Bulgaria. For comparison, the total number for the entire 2013 was 7100.

I'm sure he remembers. It lasted hours, that final meeting of PM Ahmet Davutoğlu with Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, when Davutoğlu was still the foreign minister

An eight-year-old Kosovan boy has been returned to his mother after spending five months in areas of Syria controlled by ISIL

Air strikes carried out by the US-led coalition have successfully driven Sunni insurgents from Islamic State (IS) from most of Kobane, a town in the north of Syria.

There are prospects that the town could be liberated soon, since there are only two pockets of resistance in the Kobane's east, sources from the Kurdish fighter's command in Kobane told the BBC.

Over three months after his father took him to the Syrian warzone, eight-year-old Erion was reunited on Wednesday night with his distraught mother, Pranvera Zena, at Pristina Airport.

"It feels like a dream," she told AP news agency after the reunion. "It feels as if I am waking up and I fear he's still not there."

The parliament of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in northern Iraq voted to formally recognize the cantons established by the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in Syria’s Rojava region on Oct. 15.

Turkish Prime Minister Davutoğlu has told Al-Jazeera Arabic that ‘safe zones’ against ISIL on Syria’s border with Turkey should protect ‘areas with populations over a certain density,’ marking a large region from the Mediterranean to Iraq’s border

PM Davutoğlu says Turkey will not allow its citizens to cross to border to Syria to fight against ISIL militants alongside Kurds in Kobane

The rise of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), the withdrawal of Iraqi government forces towards Baghdad and the continuing civil war in Syria have created a dangerous security vacuum at the core of the Middle East.