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G7 nations agree no Syria solution with Assad in power

G7 foreign ministers insist there can be no peace solution in war-torn Syria with President Bashar Assad in power, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Tuesday. The top diplomats, meeting as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson readies for crunch talks in Moscow, were agreed...

Iraq says ISIS has lost most of the land it seized

The Iraqi military says ISIS has lost more than three-fourths of the territory it seized when it swept across the country in the summer of 2014. Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, a military spokesman, says the extremist group currently controls less than 30,000 square kilometers (12,000 sq. miles) in...

China internet outcry over United passenger fiasco

China social media users were in an uproar Tuesday over viral footage of a Chinese-American man dragged off an overbooked United Airlines flight, decrying perceived racism and calling for a boycott. The videos taken by fellow passengers and posted to Twitter showed the man being forcibly...

Two Turkish nationals kidnapped in Nigeria

Gunmen have kidnapped two Turkish nationals from their hotel in southern Nigeria's oil-rich Akwa Ibom state, police said Tuesday in the latest unrest to hit the restive Niger Delta. "Two Turkish nationals working for a construction company in Onna local government area were abducted from...