A few hundred Syrian migrants gathered at the Turkey-Syria border as dawn broke on Tuesday morning, waiting to return home for the first time in years. Turkish soldiers waved them into a long line ...

Turkey shares a 900km border with Syria, operating five crossings, with President Erdogan pledging to reopen a sixth. The Yayladagi crossing in Hatay province, closed since 2013, will resume ...

Here are details of Turkey's connections with Syria and how it hopes to use its influence there. Turkey, which shares a 911 km (566-mile) border with Syria, was the main backer of rebel groups ...

Eight-year-old Rayan Assani knows next to nothing about Syria, but in a few minutes ... 40 minutes by car from the border. "It will be better than Turkey," said 12-year-old Leyla -- though ...

“It’s going to be pretty,” she said, speaking Arabic in a barely audible voice, clutching her pink earmuffs in her hand amid the bustle at the Turkish-Syrian border. There, dozens of ...

Tensions spiraled when a Turkish fighter jet shot down a Russian warplane near the Turkey-Syria border in November 2015, soon after Moscow launched its air campaign to support Assad. The Kremlin ...