The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced its formal dissolution on Aug. 25 after completing the integration of its military, security and administrative structures into Syrian state institutions.

Iran said on Aug. 26 that the Strait of Hormuz would not fully reopen unless the United States ended the war, lifted its naval blockade and fulfilled commitments Tehran says Washington violated, even as Iran and Oman worked on a temporary shipping co...

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan on Aug. 25 called on people across the political spectrum to support the government’s “terror-free Türkiye” initiative, describing it as a matter of state shared by the country’s 86 million citizens.

Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan said his government plans to begin work on a formal application for European Union membership and will not resume active participation in the Russia-led Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) over the n...

Turkish investors’ overseas real estate investments reached $2.6 billion in the second quarter of 2026, exceeding the average level of the past five years by tenfold, according to TEPAV’s Direct Investments Bulletin.