U.S. Ambassador to Turkey John Bass has strongly refuted recent media reports and accusations that his country was involved in or had any advance knowledge of the July 15 failed coup attempt in Turkey, while also elaborating on how he personally and his staff in Ankara experienced the night of...

 They could see the fireworks but they have felt no impact from the Olympic Games. Residents of the Mangueira favela or slum, which overlooks the Maracana Stadium where the 2016 Olympic opening ceremony was held, expressed a mix of pride and disappointment as the Games opened in Rio de...

 The U.S. military killed three al Qaeda operatives in a strike on Thursday in Yemen, U.S. Central Command said on Friday. The Central Command statement did not specify how the strike was carried out or the identities of those killed.

Supporters of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad attempted to disrupt a Palestinian solidarity conference in Tunisia on Thursday, the event's organisers have said. Assad activists stormed the room raising Syrian and Palestinian flags as they chanted "resistance, resistance, no to normalisation"....