Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked Jordan's King Abdullah Wednesday for supporting a round of Syria peace talks this week in the Kazakh capital of Astana. Abdullah said Russia was playing a critical role in solving the crisis in Syria. Putin said the Astana talks would become the basis...

British armed forces escorted a Russian aircraft carrier dubbed "the ship of shame" by Defense Secretary Michael Fallon as it passed through waters close to the English coast on its way back from bombing raids in Syria. Images released by the British defense ministry showed RAF Typhoon jets...

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said Wednesday that Egypt was "on the right track" six years after the uprising that overthrew Hosni Mubarak. Speaking in televised address commemorating the revolution, Sisi called on young activists who took part in mass protests in 2011 to work for...

The North Korean elite are outwardly expressing their discontent towards young leader Kim Jong Un and his government as more outside information trickles into the isolated country, North Korea's former deputy ambassador to London said on Wednesday. Thae Yong Ho defected to South Korea in...