Syria

Kurds will not fight in Syria on Turkey’s behalf against Bashar al-Assad, PYD leader Salih Muslim tells Hürriyet

Kurds will not fight in Syria on Turkey’s behalf against Bashar al-Assad, PYD leader Salih Muslim tells Hürriyet

Tourism has not been widely affected by the ISIL attacks near the Turkey-Syria border, but there are concerns about the upcoming year’s reservations

BELGRADE - Zoran Babic, caucus whip of the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) as the central party in the government coalition, stated on Sunday that the information of security services shows that only a dozen Serbian citizens or several dozens at most are fighting on battlefields abroad.

Contact between Erdoğan and Putin came within days after Moscow warned Ankara about seeting up a buffer-zone in Syria

Concern has grown in Berlin about a spillover of the tensions n Syria and Iraq to Germany after attacks to Kurds by Muslim groups last week

The activities of Jihadists in both Syria and Iraq have intensified the flow of desperate refugees to a greater extent than originally anticipated and have increased the pressure on islands in the Aegean where some 80 percent of undocumented immigrants are believed to have come from Syria, Kathimerini understands.

Bulgaria will increase defence spending in line with decisions of the recent NATO summit in Wales to address global challenges, President Rosen Plevneliev said on Friday.

"The crisis in Ukraine returned us to harsh reality," Plevneliev said at a defence industry forum in Sofia attended by senior NATO officials and representatives of Bulgarian military plants and research institutes.

Armed clashes in Turkey over the fate of the Kurdish town of Kobane in Syria assaulted by Islamic State jihadists have led to 31 deaths since Tuesday.

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has announced that the international coalition against jihadists in Syria are discussing issues