ASAAD AL-SHAIBANI’s professors were puzzled when the postgraduate student, a Syrian ... for Turkey. Shops offer Turkish products. Many businesses accept only Turkish lira. Power lines from ...

New Middle East correspondent Henry Bodkin talks to Venetia Rainey about his recent trip to Syria where he went out on the road ... wars and tensions, as fault lines grind and slip in an increasingly ...

New Middle East correspondent Henry Bodkin talks to Venetia Rainey about his recent trip to Syria where he went ... wars and tensions, as fault lines grind and slip in an increasingly dangerous ...

Rami, in contrast, lived in constant fear of being kicked out of Turkey. He entered the country 10 years earlier on his Syrian passport ... The “red line” that President Barack Obama drew ...

The collapse comes amid renewed focus on building safety following the deaths of 78 people in a fire that ripped through a 12 ...

Khairullah rejoiced as he went through the Bab al-Hawa border crossing from Turkey into ... ravaged Syria. Before the war, about a third of Syrians lived below the poverty line.

With Erdogan’s anti-Israel stance and rival interests in Syria ... an expert on Turkey from the Moshe Dayan Center at Tel Aviv University, told The Media Line. “But after a few weeks, he ...

After the Syrian people, it is Turkey that has emerged as the biggest ... to achieve autonomy in the area they occupy, on the lines of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) that enjoys ...

The high death toll at the time was due in part to building safety regulations being ignored. In 2004, a 12-storey apartment building collapsed in Konya, claiming the lives of 92 people and injuring ...

Speaking to journalists on Thursday, a Turkish defence official said Ankara was already in discussions with Syrian officials on the nature of their future military ties. “In line with the ...

Some Turkish and Syrian communities in the UK have launched their own local donation drives. Situated on or near several fault lines, Turkey is one of the world's most active earthquake zones.

The former British Army colonel and chemical weapons expert tells Venetia Rainey about his recent trip to Syria, his optimism ... wars and tensions, as fault lines grind and slip in an ...