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Turkey's president says it aims to "prevent the creation of a terror corridor" Turkey's military launched a cross-border operation against Kurdish-led forces in Syria ...

It's another cold bright afternoon at the Bab al-Hawa border crossing between southern Turkey and opposition-held north-western Syria ... was plugged into the wall and it slowed her down.

Pressure is mounting on Turkish authorities to open their borders to more than 200,000 refugees from Syria. What prevents the refugees from entering is a 764-km wall Turkey has built along the ...

You walk through a cut border fence into statelessness ... There are about 1.6 million Syrian war refugees in Turkey. Another eight million or more are internally displaced within Syria or ...

Clashes came near the border village of Kastanies, along a fence that covers much of the land border ... The offensive has killed dozens of Turkish troops and sent nearly 1 million Syrian civilians ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's calls for talks with Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad are a long shot but meant to send ...

Athens is worried that Germany's reintroduction of border checks could have a knock-on effect across Europe and see migrants ...

Turkey is making preparations for the possible evacuation of foreign nationals and its citizens from Lebanon, as cross-border ...

At first the job offered little excitement: one or two boats full of migrants, mostly fleeing the civil war in Syria ... ship to reach the maritime border with Turkey, and a few of the crewmen ...

A cement and barbed-wire fence that Greece is extending along its northern border with Turkey to prevent migrants from entering the country will be completed within a year, Greek Citizen ...