Indonesian Muslim school students Monday staged a protest against Valentine's Day, denouncing what they said was a Western celebration that encourages casual sex. While teenagers in many countries treat the day as an occasion to declare love for their classmates, in the Indonesian city...

A Belgian man was sentenced to 28 years in jail Monday for killing a prisoner while fighting with extremist groups in Syria, the first murder conviction of a returned fighter in Belgium. Hakim Elouassaki, 24, returned to Belgium in 2013 after being wounded in the conflict, a few months after...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan Monday condemned Israel's decision to ramp up settlements in the West Bank as an "absolute provocation." Israel announced plans last month for 3,000 more settlement homes in the occupied West Bank. It has also retroactively legalized about 4,000 settlement...

The secretary-general of the United Nations says he "deeply regrets" the United States' decision to block a former Palestinian prime minister from leading the world body's political mission in Libya. Antonio Guterres says that Salam Fayyad was "the right person for the right job at the right...