U.S. President Barack Obama said on Sunday bilateral talks with China's Xi Jinping had been "extremely productive", as world leaders gathered for a G20 summit expected to address sluggish global economic growth and the looming specter of protectionism. Some G20 leaders have already begun...

Turkish warplanes hit 10 Kurdish militant targets in Turkey's southeast and east overnight, the state-run Anadolu Agency said Sunday, citing security sources. The airstrikes capped one of the most violent single days of fighting in the largely Kurdish southeast in recent years. The military...

The EU failed to show Turkey the support it needed during the July 15 defeated coup, a senior Turkish official said Saturday.  “Stronger support should have been given,” Turkish EU minister and Chief Negotiator Omer Celik said in Bratislava, Slovakia, during a news conference...

Iraq’s firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called on civil servants to go on strike in a new escalation against the Iraqi government. In a statement on Friday, al-Sadr urged employees -- except for security forces -- to stage a strike on Sunday and Monday to pressure Prime...