President Donald Trump said Friday he is launching the "largest-ever" set of sanctions against North Korea. "Today I am announcing that we are launching the largest-ever set of new sanctions on the North Korean regime," Trump said in excerpts of a speech he was to deliver later on...

The recent natural gas agreement on Monday between Israel and Egypt is more symbolic than viable with the aim of fabricating a gas market in Egypt to send a message that Jordan is not Israel's only market in the region, according to the director of hydrocarbons at the Paris-based Mediterranean...

The governor of Nigeria's Yobe state told locals in the village of Dapchi Thursday that 76 of their schoolgirls who were reported to have been rescued from militant Boko Haram kidnappers were in fact still missing. The state government Wednesday said the schoolgirls had been rescued by...

Turkey's opposition said Thursday new electoral regulations proposed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party and its nationalist allies could open the door to fraud and jeopardize the fairness of 2019 elections. Under a draft law submitted to parliament Wednesday, security...