Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that he would not serve more than two presidential terms in a row, as the Russian constitution states. His current presidential term, his second in succession, ends in 2024.

The House of Representatives has voted to require Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to determine whether U.S. military or intelligence personnel violated the law in interrogations of detainees in Yemen. By voice vote, the House on Thursday adopted the measure as part of the 2019 defense...

Thousands of Palestinians from the Israeli-occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem converged on Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque on the second Friday of the Ramadan fasting month. Firas al-Dibs, a spokesman for Jerusalem’s Religious Affairs Authority, told Anadolu Agency that as many as...

The UN humanitarian chief on Friday urged the Saudi-led coalition and the Yemeni government to speed up food imports through commercial ports to prevent the rising starvation in the country. "I am extremely concerned by recent developments in Yemen. Over the past few weeks we have seen...