The governor of Kirkuk on Wednesday asked the central government in Baghdad to send military reinforcements to the province after members of a Kurdish political party raised Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) flags at a rally. Late Tuesday, Iraqi security forces in Kirkuk dispersed a...

Wednesday began five of the most crucial days ever for Britain's parliament as the debate on Prime Minister Theresa May’s EU withdrawal agreement resumed. Coming to the end of a road almost two-and-a-half years after British voters narrowly decided in 2016 to leave the EU, the Brexit...

Saudi Arabia is expected to announce a slight rise in its crude oil and gas reserves after being independently audited Wednesday, according to a source familiar with the matter. Saudi Arabia's reserves of easily recoverable oil have long been the world's largest. For nearly 30...

The Kremlin said Wednesday that it expected Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to visit Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin soon, but that no date had yet been agreed. Russia and Turkey are both major players in the conflict in Syria and in September reached a...