U.S. President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Attorney General Jeff Sessions should end a federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, drawing a rebuke from both Democrats and his fellow Republicans in Congress. The Republican president has long complained...

Israel’s military chief is pleading to keep politics out of the army amid rising protests by the Druze minority against a recently passed law that enshrines the state’s Jewish character and that critics say undermines its democratic values. Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot has called on “all commanders...

Morocco's King Mohammad VI has sacked the country's economy minister, his office said Wednesday, after the monarch demanded "urgent action" on social issues in the North African nation hit by unrest over unemployment and graft. The king decided to dismiss Mohammad Boussaid after...

The White House is announcing that the Treasury Department is imposing sanctions on two Turkish officials over a detained American pastor who is being tried on espionage and terror-related charges. White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders says the Trump administration would sanction...

An armed group robbed a Tunisian bank in the town of Kasserine near the Algerian border on Wednesday in an attack with a "terrorist background," a Tunisian security official said. Eleven men, some armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, had hijacked a car and four then stormed the bank and...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Iran on Wednesday that if it were to try to block the key Red Sea Bab al-Mandab strait, it would likely face an international coalition that would include Israel. "If Iran will try to block the straits of Bab al-Mandab, I am certain that it...

The sound of automatic gunfire reverberated through Harare on Wednesday as armored military vehicles rolled through the Zimbabwean capital and soldiers fired on opposition activists protesting against alleged electoral fraud. By the time daylight began to fade at least one man had been shot...

Shares in Russian aluminum producer United Company Rusal slipped 0.7 percent in early trading on the Moscow exchange Wednesday after the U.S. Treasury extended the deadline for divesting from the sanctioned company. The U.S. Treasury in April imposed sanctions against billionaire Oleg...

Afghan officials say more than 150 Daesh (ISIS) militants have surrendered to government forces in the face of an onslaught by the Taliban in the northern Jawzjan province. Gen. Faqir Mohammad Jawzjani, the provincial police chief, said 152 fighters surrendered Wednesday, including...

More than 50 boxes handed over by North Korea to the United States last week appear to hold human remains from the 1950-1953 Korean War and are likely American, according to an initial forensic analysis, a U.S. official said Wednesday. A U.S. military transport aircraft on Friday flew...

The United Arab Emirates has begun a three-month visa amnesty program, hoping to resolve a Catch-22 for foreign workers who are fined daily for overstaying their permits but prevented from leaving until they pay the penalties. The government isn't releasing specific numbers, but says it...

Senior Iranian officials Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer of talks without preconditions as worthless and “a humiliation” after he acted to reimpose sanctions on Tehran following his withdrawal from a landmark nuclear deal. Separately, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said...

Twin wildfires tearing through vineyards and brushy hills threatened some 10,000 homes Tuesday in Northern California – yet another front in the battle against the flames that have ravaged some of the state’s most scenic areas. The two fires straddling Mendocino and Lake counties had burned...

President Donald Trump stepped up his onslaught on federal special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe into Russia and the 2016 U.S. election Tuesday, saying that his campaign did not collude with Moscow but that collusion is not a crime anyway. Trump launched his new attack hours before his former...

Egypt says police have killed five suspected militants in a shootout north of Cairo. The Interior Ministry says Monday the militants were killed in an exchange of fire as security forces raided their hideout in the el-Obour district. It says another five militants were arrested....

The United Nations human rights office called on Saudi Arabia Tuesday to release all peaceful activists, including women held for campaigning to lift a long-time ban on driving. They included prominent women's rights advocate Hatoon al-Fassi, arrested in June as she was planning to take...

A Turkish court has rejected an appeal for U.S. Christian pastor Andrew Brunson to be released from house arrest during his trial on terrorism charges, state broadcaster TRT Haber said on Tuesday. Brunson's lawyer, Ismail Cem Halavurt, told Reuters he had not been notified of a court ruling.

The International Monetary Fund on Tuesday urged Greece to be "realistic" about its economic goals, and reiterated the longstanding concern the country may yet need additional debt relief. The IMF board welcomed the agreement Athens reached with the European Union in June to reduce the...

Iran on Tuesday denied accusations by Tajikistan police that it was partly responsible for an attack that killed four tourists in the former Soviet republic. "The Islamic Republic of Iran denies any link with this terrorist attack and categorically denies that there is any military base...

An Israeli court jailed a 1948 Palestinian poet for five months Tuesday after convicting her of incitement to terrorism for a poem and remarks she posted on social media during a wave of Palestinian street attacks. Dareen Tatour, 36, posted on Facebook and YouTube a video of herself...