Aid workers question effectiveness of U.N. Syria aid
GAZIANTEP, Turkey (Reuters) - Seven weeks after U.N. aid trucks crossed from Turkey into Syria for the first time, aid workers and officials in this southern Turkish humanitarian hub still...
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Turkey builds wall in token effort to secure border with Syria
REYHANLI, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey has started building a new wall along a fragment of its southeastern border with Syria as it struggles against smuggling, illegal migration and the threat...
Border province punishes Turkey’s policy on Syria in polls
ANTAKYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Turkey's policy of keeping its border with Syria open despite the war there cost the ruling party control of the border province of Hatay in local...
Aid officials frustrated as Syria convoy halted on second day
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The first U.N. convoy carrying aid from Turkey into Syria was halted on Friday, less than 24 hours after the long-awaited humanitarian mission began, with one aid...
Orthodox patriarchs urge peace in Ukraine, agree on council
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Patriarchs of the world's 250 million Orthodox Christians ended a rare summit in Istanbul on Sunday calling for a peaceful end to the crisis in Ukraine and...
Turkish Internet controls ignite public anger
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - From a campaign to "unfollow" President Abdullah Gul on Twitter to an opposition appeal to Turkey's highest court, Turks vented their anger on Wednesday at a new...
U.S., Britain suspend aid to north Syria after Islamists seize weapons store
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The United States and Britain suspended non-lethal aid to northern Syria after Islamist fighters seized Western-backed rebel weapons warehouses, highlighting fears that supplies could end up in...
Syrian Islamists seize Western-backed rebel bases: monitoring group
BEIRUT/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Syrian rebels from an Islamist alliance formed last month have occupied bases and warehouses belonging to a Western-backed rebel group on the Turkish border, rebels and activists...
Defector blames Syria for ‘cold murder’ after March chemical attack
ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A Syrian forensic expert who defected to Turkey last month said on Tuesday he had documents confirming President Bashar al-Assad's government had used chemical weapons near Aleppo...
Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’ to be seen everywhere on earth, Globe says
LONDON (Reuters) - Shakespeare's Globe Theatre will perform "Hamlet" in every country in the world to introduce the Bard in English to audiences in some of the world's most remote...