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The United States' top soldier, Gen. Joseph Dunford, met Turkey's Chief of General Staff, Gen. Hulusi Akar, at the Turkish Embassy in Washington on Oct. 16 to discuss recent regional developments, including an operation to free Mosul from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).        

A contractor for the National Security Agency has been arrested on charges that he illegally removed highly classified information and stored the material in his home and car, federal prosecutors said Oct. 5.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were a giant step closer toward securing their parties' presidential nominations with powerful wins in a string of primary wins in the U.S. Northeast.

Billionaire Donald Trump and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton won sweeping victories in the New York primary on April 19, bolstering their bids to secure the Republican and Democratic nominations for the White House.
 

One day, cardiac patients may enjoy a new lease on life with pig hearts beating in their chests, said researchers reporting a major advance on April 5 in cross-species organ transplantation.

Given the dire shortage of organ donors, the use of animal hearts, lungs or livers to save human lives has long been a holy grail of medical science.   

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an has attended the opening ceremony of a culture center and mosque in the United States, while he was in the country to attend the Nuclear Security Summit. 

American Muslims should not apologize for terrorists who claim affiliation with Islam, Turkey's head of Religious Affairs, Mehmet Görmez said March 1 at a sermon in the newly built Diyanet Center of America in Maryland, some 21 kilometers from Washington D.C.

With the West still under the shock of successive terrorist attracts by radical Islamists, and with rising Islamophobia and xenophobia fueled by those attacks, would the leader of a superpower miss the chance to give messages of peace and interreligious dialogue by participating in the opening of a mosque in a majority Christian country? Why would that leader miss the chance to stand side-by-si

There is no scheduled bilateral meeting between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an and U.S. President Barack Obama in Washington D.C. during the Nuclear Security Summit on March 31 and April 1, Presidential Spokesperson ?brahim Kal?n said March 28.

Turkey will seek an investment of over $1 billion from U.S. companies during President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an's official trip next week, the head of Turkey's Foreign Economic Relations Board (DE?K) said on March 26.