Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will speak Friday by telephone with U.S. President Donald Trump in the first contact between the two leaders since Trump took office in January. Trump's planned phone call to Abbas was revealed in a White House notice. Abbas has spent many hours on the...

A helicopter crashed in the outskirts of Istanbul Friday after apparently hitting a television tower in dense fog, killing at least five people, reports said. The private Dogan news agency said the helicopter, with two pilots, four foreign nationals and a Turkish citizen on board, crashed on...

About 2,000 people were killed and entire neighborhoods razed in southeastern Turkey in 18 months of government security operations characterized by massive destruction and serious human rights violations, the United Nations said Friday. The U.N. human rights office said in a report on the...

The lead Brexit negotiator for the European Parliament wants to ensure that Britons can retain the benefits of European Union citizenship after the U.K. leaves the block, he told BBC radio Friday. Guy Verhofstadt said last year's Brexit vote was a tragedy for both the U.K. and the EU but...