ANKARA (Reuters) - Twelve people were wounded when a bomb hit a police vehicle in Turkey’s southern Mersin province on Tuesday, broadcaster NTV said, an attack authorities described as the work of terrorists. The attack took place on the street where the local governor’s office is...

BAGHDAD/KIRKUK (Reuters) - The Baghdad government recaptured territory from Kurds across the breadth of northern Iraq on Tuesday, making startlingly rapid gains in a sudden campaign that has shifted the balance of power in the country almost overnight. In the second day of a lightning...

(Reuters) - Two suspected U.S. drone strikes on Tuesday killed 11 people on the mountainous Pakistan-Afghanistan border, following a strike a day earlier that killed 20, government and militant sources said. The attacks came days after a Canadian-American couple held hostage by the...

FIFA's number two Fatma Samoura said Tuesday she hoped the criminal investigations into the sale of World Cup rights to the Qatari-owned beIN Media group will not "disrupt" Qatar's hosting of the 2022 World Cup. Swiss prosecutors said last week a criminal corruption probe targeting...