South Korean prosecutors arrested two former top presidential aides on Sunday in a snowballing influence-peddling scandal which has seen tens of thousands of people take to the streets to demand President Park Geun-Hye resign. Park's approval ratings have hit a historic low of five percent...

A suicide attacker detonated an ambulance packed with explosives in Tikrit Sunday, killing nine people at the southern entrance to the city, police and hospital sources said. The bomber struck during the busy morning rush hour. Authorities declared a curfew in the city, saying they had...

Turkish authorities briefly barred cars from entering and leaving Istanbul's main Ataturk Airport Sunday after police fired shots when a motorcycle refused an order to stop, CNN Turk said. One of two men aboard the motorcycle was wounded and detained and the second was apprehended by police...

(The Guardian)- Turkish authorities ordered the formal arrest of nine staff members of a leading opposition newspaper and detained more pro-Kurdish officials, widening an anti-terror probe that has drawn condemnation from the west. The arrests, a day after the co-leaders of the pro-Kurdish...