President Donald Trump suggested he was just trying to keep fired FBI Director James Comey honest with his cryptic tweet implying there might be recordings of their private conversations. Trump ended a month-long guessing game Thursday by tweeting that he never made and doesn't have...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has pardoned 502 prisoners before the Eid al-Fitr holiday, including prominent businessman Hesham Talaat Moustafa, who is accused of the slaying of Lebanese pop star Suzanne Tamim. Security sources said that among those pardoned was Hesham Talaat...

The U.N. Human Rights Council on Friday decided to send a group of experts to the Democratic Republic of Congo to help investigate an explosion of deadly violence in the Kasai region. A council resolution called on the U.N. rights office to dispatch a team of international experts to help...

Turkey's defense minister warned on Friday that Ankara would retaliate against any threatening moves by the Kurdish YPG militia in Syria and welcomed a U.S. pledge to take back weapons from the group after the defeat of Islamic State. Washington sees the YPG as an essential ally in the...