Turkey's foreign minister, on a visit to Qatar on Wednesday, defended the idea of "safe zones" in war-ravaged Syria and pressed the need for them to be properly funded. Mevlut Cavusoglu said that only through making the zones habitable would tens of thousands of Syrians be encouraged...

President Donald Trump railed at US intelligence agencies Wednesday as Washington was shaken by new reports of high-level Russian contacts with his aides and associates during the 2016 presidential campaign. Intercepted calls and phone records show Trump aides were in repeated contact with...

Argentine superstar Lionel Messi postponed a visit to Egypt to promote a campaign to fight Hepatitis C in the wake of Barcelona's defeat by Paris Saint-Germain, Egypt's tourism ministry said Wednesday. "The visit has been officially postponed, (Messi) said he could not come at the last...

A suicide bomber Wednesday detonated a pick-up truck in Sadr City, a heavily populated poor Shiite suburb of Baghdad, killing at least 15 and wounding 50, security sources said. The explosion, the deadliest in Baghdad so far this year, targeted a crowded street full of garages and used car...