Turkish police carried out a controlled explosion of a bag left in Istanbul's popular Taksim square Saturday, a Reuters witness at the scene said, hours after...
The United States embassy in Turkey on Saturday warned American citizens of "credible threats" to tourist areas in Istanbul and the resort city of Antalya, a...
Intense fighting and unprecedented casualties suffered by Afghan forces in 2015 have put U.S. and NATO efforts to train a self-sufficient force behind...
Kenyans Saturday commemorated the first anniversary of a terrorist attack that killed 148 people, mostly students, at a university in Garissa in the country's...
Russian police, rescue workers and volunteers are searching for a U.S. student who went missing in a Siberian village three days ago, investigators said...
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan heads to the United States for only the second visit of his presidency at a time when relations between the two key...
The director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, John Brennan, raised the issue of Syrian President Bashar Assad leaving power when he visited Moscow at...
Six Chinese nationals were wounded after gunmen opened fire on a bus in Laos, state media reported Thursday, the third shadowy attack this year on China's...
Vietnam jailed a well-known political blogger and his assistant on Wednesday for abusing democratic freedom, their lawyer said, in a verdict that stirred...
President Barack Obama held a symbolic meeting with Cuban dissidents at the U.S. embassy in Havana Tuesday, in an encounter dismissed as a "token" gesture by...
A ship loaded with weapons-grade plutonium left Japan for the United States on Tuesday in what is the largest such shipment of the highly dangerous material...
Barack Obama Sunday became the first U.S. president in 88 years to visit Cuba, touching down in Havana for a landmark trip aimed at ending decades of Cold War...
Thousands of supporters of prominent Iraqi preacher Muqtada al-Sadr defied a government ban Friday to launch sit-ins at the main gates of Baghdad’s Green Zone...
Barack Obama touches down in Havana Sunday to cap a long-unimaginable rapprochement with Cuba and burnish a presidential legacy dulled by Middle East...
The U.S. Department of Defense Tuesday approved the sale of three military helicopters to Lebanon as part of a multi-million dollar deal.
Turkey Monday blamed Kurdish rebels for a suicide car bombing that killed 35 people in Ankara, the latest in a series of attacks that has heightened concerns...
A car bomb killed at least 34 people and wounded at least 125 more at a crowded transport hub in the Turkish capital of Ankara Sunday, the second such attack...
Sailors on a round-the-world race found and left a dead German whose body was discovered on a yacht adrift off the southern Philippines, event organizers said
Amid growing talk that Iraq’s largest dam risks bursting, residents of the town of Wana, which would be wiped out within minutes of a breach, are both...
Bolivian President Evo Morales Tuesday faced the growing prospect of defeat in a referendum on his seeking a fourth term in power