Turkey's lira slid to a record low and bond yields briefly touched their highest in at least eight years on Tuesday, after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he plans to take greater control of the economy after elections next month. Erdogan's comments, in an interview with Bloomberg...

Russian Acting Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said Tuesday it was possible to discuss the future of the Iran nuclear deal without the participation of the United States, the RIA news agency reported. Ryabkov also said it would be impossible to preserve the deal without Tehran...

Turkish authorities have detained 54 suspected Daesh (ISIS) members in Istanbul who were believed to be preparing to travel to conflict zones in Syria, police said Tuesday. All of those detained were foreign nationals, it said, without giving details on when the detentions took place....

Nationalist religious scholar Moqtada al-Sadr, a longtime adversary of the United States, led in Iraq’s parliamentary election with more than half the votes counted Monday, the electoral commission said, in a surprise turn of fortune for the Shiite leader. In the first election since...