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In this picture taken on Monday, April 20, 2015, a Kurdish refugee woman who fled from Kobani carries her belongings as she walks toward a border gate to return to her town, at the Mursitpinar border crossing in Suruc town, Turkey. Three months since Kobani was liberated, tens of thousands of its residents are still stranded in Turkey, reluctant to return to a wasteland of collapsed buildings and at a loss as to how and where to rebuild their lives. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Kobani still a ghost town, months after liberation from Islamic State

By Zeina Karam and Mohammed Rasool - Associated Press

In this picture taken on Friday, April 17, 2015, 16-year-old Anas Baroudi shows his missing left foot, lost almost three years ago in the civil war in Syria, on his bed at the Dar Al-Salameh center for recovery and physiotherapy, in Kilis town near the Syrian border in Turkey. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Near Syrian border, wounded fighters and civilians recover

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

Illustration on remembrance of the Turkish genocide against Armenians 100 years ago by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

CLIFFORD MAY: Recalling the lessons of Armenia

By Clifford D. May

From left, Armenian Apostolic Church leader, Catholicos Garegin II, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic and Russian President Vladimir Putin attend a ceremony at the Tsitsernakaberd Genocide memorial complex in Yerevan, Armenia, Friday, April 24, 2015. (Alexei Nikolsky/RIA Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Armenia marks centennial of killing of 1.5 million

By Avet Demourian - Associated Press

President Obama will once again stop short of calling the 1915 massacre of Armenians a genocide, prompting anger and disappointment from those who have been pushing him to fulfill a campaign promise and use the politically fraught term on the 100th anniversary of the killings this week. (Associated Press)

Obama again avoids calling 1915 Armenian killings ‘genocide’

By Matthew Lee and Julie Pace - Associated Press

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (Associated Press)

Iran sanctions relief has Russia, China, Turkey lining up to cash in

By Chris White - The Washington Times

Pope Francis, left, is greeted by the head of Armenia's Orthodox Church Karekin II, during an Armenian-Rite Mass on the occasion of the commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican, Sunday, April 12, 2015. Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey however denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated, and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Pope recalls slaughter of Armenians in ‘first genocide of the 20th century’

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

Pope Francis celebrates an Armenian-Rite Mass to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, in St. Peter's Basilica, at the Vatican Sunday, April 12, 2015. Historians estimate that up to 1.5 million Armenians were killed by Ottoman Turks around the time of World War I, an event widely viewed by genocide scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century. Turkey however denies that the deaths constituted genocide, saying the toll has been inflated, and that those killed were victims of civil war and unrest. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

Is there a light in the dark for Turkey’s invisible Christians?

By Elise Harris - Catholic News Agency

In the Feb. 2, 2014 photo provided by the Rock County, Wisconsin, Sheriff’s Office is Joshua Van Haften, 34, of Madison, Wisconsin. Van Haften was arrested Wednesday, April 8, 2015 at O'Hare International Airport in Chicago after returning on a flight from Turkey. He is charged in a criminal complaint with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. (Rock County Sheriff’s Office via AP)

Joshua Van Haften of Wisconsin charged with trying to join Islamic State group

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Chinese authorities want the return of 17 ethnic Uighurs. (Agence France-Presse/Getty Images)

Inside China: Turkey, China fight over Uighurs detained in Thailand

By Miles Yu

FILE- In this Friday, March 1, 2013 file photo, anti-Syrian President Bashar Assad protesters hold the Jabhat al-Nusra flag, as they shout slogans during a demonstration, at Kafranbel town, in Idlib province, northern Syria. The Nusra Front, Syria's al-Qaida affiliate, is consolidating power in territory stretching from the Turkish border to central and southern Syria, crushing moderate opponents and forcibly converting minorities using tactics akin to its ultraconservative rival, the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Al Qaeda in Syria seizes large parts of northern city

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

In this Oct. 22, 2014, file photo, thick smoke from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition rises in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Syria Kurds yet to be fully embraced by U.S. in anti-IS fight

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

FILE - In this Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2012 file photo, an elderly Syrian woman, who fled her home due to fighting between the Syrian army and the rebels, reacts, while she and other families take refuge at Bab Al-Salameh crossing border, hoping to cross to one of the refugee camps in Turkey, near the Syrian town of Azaz. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen, File)

An exodus with little hope – report finds crisis of unaccompanied minors fleeing Syria

By Matt Hadro - Catholic News Agency

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing a bill that would allow for arbitrary searches and detentions without charges. (Associated Press)

CLAUDE SALHANI: How Turkey miscalculated in the Mideast

By Claude Salhani

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is pushing a bill that would allow for arbitrary searches and detentions without charges. (Associated Press)

Recep Erdogan’s vision for Turkey undermined by domestic strife

By Jacob Resneck — Special to The Washington Times

This is three image combo of stills taken from CCTV issued by the Metropolitan Police in London on Feb. 23, 2015, Kadiza Sultana (left), 16, Shamima Begum (center), 15, and and 15-year-old Amira Abase going through security at Gatwick airport, before they caught their flight to Turkey on Tuesday Feb 17, 2015. The three teenage girls left the country in a suspected bid to travel to Syria to join the Islamic State extremist group. (Associated Press/Metropolitan Police)

U.K. police believe 3 missing schoolgirls have entered Syria

By Sylvia Hui - Associated Press

In this Jan. 15, 2015 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State, John Kerry, left, talks with Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boyko Borisov, before holding a joint news conference in Sofia, Bulgaria Thursday, Jan. 15, 2015. Kerry visited Bulgaria to push for a new gas spur and press an American company's bid to build a new nuclear plant there. Bulgaria relies on Russia for 85 percent of its gas and all of its nuclear power. Its prices, among NATO&#8217;s highest, are a concern within the alliance, which prides itself on winning the Cold War. (AP Photo/Rick Wilking, Pool)

U.S., Russia at odds over energy in Cold War-style conflict

By Bradley Klapper and Matthew Lee - Associated Press