Clockwise from bottom right: Areej and Ahmad al-Khaldi with their daughters Shaghaf and Sama, at home in Sanliurfa, Turkey.Credit...Rena Effendi for The New York Times Supported by By Alia Malek ...

All poultry activities have been suspended in Georgia after bird flu was confirmed in a commercial poultry operation, officials said Friday. The positive bird flu case in Elbert County was ...

For more than a decade, Bashar Assad presided over a regime that brutally repressed dissent, fueled a devastating civil war and transformed Syria into a proxy battlefield for regional and global ...

Eleven people were killed in a blast at an explosives and ammunition factory in the village of Kavakli in the Karesi district of Balikesir province in northwest Turkey on Tuesday, according to the ...

For many, a roast turkey is the centrepiece of the holiday ... part of the bird and ensure it reaches 82 C (180 F) for whole poultry. The final step, chill, means keeping “hot foods hot and ...

The blurring of its borders is also underway — from Israel to the southwest and Turkey to the north. Israel’s military wasted no time advancing on Syria after Assad was overthrown by Islamist ...

Turkey’s recent economic stabilisation efforts have garnered international recognition. In November, Standard & Poor's upgraded Turkey’s long-term sovereign credit rating to BB- from B+ ...

Erdogan, modern Turkey's longest-serving leader, has been in power for more than two decades, first as a premier and later as president. Under Turkey's presidential term limits he is in his final ...

The cause of the blast in Balikesir is being investigated but sabotage has been ruled out An explosion at an ammunition and explosives factory in north-west Turkey has killed at least 12 people ...

Surveillance video has captured the terrifying moment that a cargo ship rolled onto its side at a port in Istanbul, Turkey, sending workers running for their lives. According to Reuters, ...

A blast at an explosives factory in Turkey has killed at least 12 people, a government minister said. Four people were injured in the explosion, which happened in the village of Kavakli ...

Bird flu has been identified on a Burnett County commercial poultry farm ... However, the 20,000 turkeys were destroyed to prevent spread of the H5N1 virus and will not enter the food system ...