The United States said on Friday it was concerned about a Houthi missile strike on a Turkish vessel carrying wheat to Yemen this month and another attack on an oil tanker in the Red Sea. "The United States is alarmed by the Houthi missile strike against a Turkish cargo ship 70 miles off...

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...