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Turkey-Syria border wall to be 'completed' by mid-2017

Construction of a concrete wall along the Turkish-Syrian border will be completed in the first half of 2017, Turkey's Defense Minister Fikri Isik said Wednesday. Speaking during a visit of the border units in the southern province of Hatay, Isik said that almost 270 kilometers (167 miles) of...

In Iraq village, men celebrate freedom with clippers

The most popular object in Gogjali Wednesday was the electric hair clipper a member of the Iraqi special forces who retook the village from jihadists gave the residents. On the steps leading to the mosque, one man revelled in his first shave in two years and sheared off thick tufts from the...

Trump's campaign should be fair game in Trump University trial

Statements Donald Trump has made during his presidential run should generally be admissible in an upcoming civil trial over alleged fraud at his Trump University venture, lawyers for the plaintiffs said in a court filing late on Tuesday. Some of the statements by the Republican nominee may...

Putin threatens cash cut to cellist friend's kids foundation

 Russian President Vladimir Putin Wednesday threatened to cut millions of dollars in state funding for a children's foundation chaired by his cellist friend Sergei Roldugin, named by the Panama Papers as head of an offshore empire. Roldugin was said in the Panama Papers – leaked in...