Turkey

Turkey started bombing both the PKK and ISIS over the weekend, after it agreed to allow the U.S. and other coalition forces use bases in Turkey to launch strikes against the Islamic State.Â (AP Photo/Cagdas Erdogan)

State Dept. downplays Turkish strikes against ISIS enemy

Pete Kasperowicz · July 27, 2015 7:51 pm

President Barack Obama and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan shake hands after they made statements to reporters at their meeting at the NATO summit at Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales, Friday, Sept. 5, 2014. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

National Security

White House on military deal with Turkey: ‘We are deepening our commitment’

Susan Crabtree · July 23, 2015 10:48 pm

President Obama spoke by phone Wednesday with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about cooperation efforts to combat the Islamic State. (AP Photo)Â

National Security

Report: Turkey agrees to let US strike Islamic State from Incirlik

Charles Hoskinson · July 23, 2015 8:05 pm

Members of the Press Corps raise their hands as White House Press secretary Josh Earnest answers questions during the daily briefing in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House, Monday, July 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

White House condemns second terrorist bombing in three days

Susan Crabtree · July 20, 2015 8:36 pm

Syrian refugees gather at the Turkish border as they flee intense fighting in northern Syria between Kurdish fighters and Islamic State militants in Akcakale, southeastern Turkey. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

National Security

UN: More than 4 million Syrians have fled war-torn country

Kelly Cohen · July 9, 2015 12:56 pm

Turkish soldiers stand guard as people from the Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab or Kobani, in the background, wait to cross into Turkey following the attacks by IS militants as seen from the Turkish side of the border in Suruc, Turkey, Friday, June 26, 2015. (AP Photo)

National Security

Kurds push ISIS out of Kobani

Charles Hoskinson · June 27, 2015 2:41 pm

Turkey, Islamism, and the West

Joseph Loconte · June 22, 2015 4:00 am

Design for Power

Thomas Kohut · June 22, 2015 4:00 am

Angelina Jolie brings daughter to Turkey to ‘worst refugee crisis ever recorded’

Barbara Boland · June 21, 2015 10:51 pm

In this Friday, June 12, 2015 photo, fighters from the Shiite Badr Brigades militia patrol at the front line, in Kessarrat, (70 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

National Security

Kurds attack Islamic State’s capital province

Barbara Boland · June 13, 2015 6:51 pm

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan waves to supporters Sunday after he voted at a polling station in Istanbul, Turkey. (AP Photo/Emrah Gurel)

In Turkey and Mexico, voters try to strengthen electoral democracy

Michael Barone · June 10, 2015 10:14 pm

"We want to get more Iraqi security forces trained, fresh, well-equipped and focused...so we're reviewing a range of plans for how we might do that," President Obama saidÂ at the end of the G-7 summit in Germany. (AP Photo)Â

Obama says Pentagon working to boost Iraqi army recruitment

Susan Crabtree · June 8, 2015 4:17 pm