New U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Saudi Arabia Saturday on the first stop of his hastily-arranged visit to the Middle East as decisions on the Iran nuclear deal and a review of the U.S. role in Syria loom large. A State Department official said the visit to Riyadh,...

Former Turkish head of state Abdullah Gul on Saturday ruled out running for the presidency in June, dousing fevered speculation he would challenge incumbent Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The polls are significant because under constitutional changes approved in an April 2017 referendum, Turkey...

A suicide bomber blew himself up in a military camp in the Somali town of Galkayo Saturday, killing four officers, officials said, in an attack claimed by the Al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab group. The dead included a military commander and two colonels, the town's mayor, Hirsi Yusuf Barre,...

Armenian protest leader Nikol Pashinyan Saturday rallied support for his bid to become prime minister following the resignation of veteran leader Serzh Sarkisian as a major opposition party readied its choice. Pashinyan was to hold anti-government rallies in Armenia's third largest city...