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(Adds more details, background) By David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Oct 19 (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior members of Congress held talks in Jordan on Saturday with King Abdullah II and other top Jordanian officials. Pelosi said in…

The ceasefire in Syria has not stopped people from paying smugglers to get them to safety. More than 700 have crossed the border into Iraq overnight. And the United Nations says more than 3,000 have arrived there this week. Its team has been sent to a hast…

Delil Douleiman/Getty On Thursday night at his rally in Texas, Donald Trump finally admitted why he greenlit the Turkish military to cross the border into northern Syria to attack the Kurds: He wanted these two groups of Muslims to slaughter each other. As T…

Key point:Ankara wants to achieve all of its objectives despite the risks. The Turkish military is moving into Syria's northeast as Ankara chases its strategy of expanding a buffer space between Turkey and Syria's civil war. But while Turkey will succeed in …

U.S. Customs and Border Protectionone of the arms of the federal immigration machine shoving tens of thousands of people into de facto concentration campsis eyeing equipping officers with facial recognition body cams, according to Reuters. Reuters wrote that…

President Donald Trump compared Turkey attacking the Kurds to "two kids in a lot," saying that "you have to let them fight, and then you pull them apart." The president hosted a rally in Dallas, Texas, the first since the House of Representatives voted in fa…

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders will seek a common front against their NATO ally Turkey at a summit on Thursday and condemn Ankara’s offensive in northern Syria, while considering further ways to pressure it to pull back. Days after EU governmen…

Gashi has some lofty goals. Hes been quietly making music for almost a decade, but over the last couple of years, people have started to take notice, including the likes of Jay-Z and Sam Smith. A lot of people will say youre going to fail if you try to win…

The Turkish operation in northeastern Syria has forced more than a thousand Syrian refugees to cross the border into Iraq in the past three days. But tightly secured borders mean many are being smuggled in to the country. There are also security concerns ab…

After days of harsh rhetoric, President Donald Trump announced Monday that the US would impose sanctions on Turkey — but these are just a slap on the wrist for Turkey, which continues its incursion into Syria.  Trump threatened to devastate Turkey's economy …