Liverpool had little time to celebrate the return of Champions League football to Anfield before the squad departed for Australia Monday to play in a post-season friendly linked to the club's 125th anniversary. Juergen Klopp's side, who finished fourth after beating Middlesbrough 3-0 in...

 Iraq has achieved its share of the production cuts agreed by OPEC and non-OPEC producers at the end of last year but remains ready to meet future oil demand growth, Iraqi oil minister Jabar al-Luaibi said in a speech Monday. "Iraq as the second-largest producer in OPEC confirms its...

Two Iraqi officers say an attack on a military training center in Diyala north of Baghdad has killed at least four soldiers and wounded four, including two officers. The officers say six attackers struck the base Monday morning. Five detonated suicide vests once inside the center and the...

The trial opened Monday of more than 220 suspects, including over two dozen former Turkish generals, accused of being among the ringleaders of the attempted coup last year aimed at ousting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Turkey blames the attempted July 15 putsch on the U.S.-based Muslim...

 Malaysia has deployed 11 ships and two helicopters to search for a naval craft which went missing with nine crew members during an anti-poaching patrol, officials said Monday. The small boat, from the warship KD Perdana, disappeared Saturday in calm waters off Cape Sedili in the...

A bomb blast at a hospital in the Thai capital, Bangkok, wounded 24 people Monday, on the third anniversary of a 2014 military coup. There was no claim of responsibility for the blast at the Phramongkutklao Hospital, which is popular with retired military officers. Read More:...

After an exhausting two days in Saudi Arabia, U.S. President Donald Trump travels to Israel on Monday, attempting to revive the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process with visits to Jerusalem and the West Bank. Over two days, Trump is to meet separately with both Israeli Prime Minister...

EU ministers are set Monday to give Frenchman Michel Barnier the European mandate to negotiate Britain's exit from the bloc, which he expects to start in earnest in mid-June following British elections. Barnier will lock horns with Britain's Brexit minister David Davis who has predicted "the...

The chief of NATO says he's in touch with both Germany and Turkey regarding their latest dispute over visiting rights to a Turkish air base where German soldiers are stationed. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told German daily newspaper Bild on Sunday he's focused on finding a solution...

A young demonstrator has died from a gunshot wound to the chest, raising to 48 the number of people killed in seven weeks of protests against Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro, officials said Sunday. The attorney general's office said gunmen were alleged to have opened fire Saturday on an...

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet unions on Tuesday to discuss labour reform, his office said on Sunday. Macron had said during the presidential election campaign that he intended to use executive decrees as soon as this summer to reform labour laws in a country where unemployment...

Israel expressed muted concern on Sunday to a major arms deal between the United States and Saudi Arabia announced a day earlier during the visit to the region by U.S. President Donald Trump. The central achievement of Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia was nearly $110 billion in deals sealed on...

The head of the United Nations refugee agency on Sunday urged Libyan authorities to free all asylum seekers and refugees from its detention centers as he visited Tripoli. "I hope first of all that asylum seekers and refugees can be taken out of detention centers," UN High Commissioner for...

Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Sunday accused regional rival Shiite Iran of exporting extremist Islamic movements to the world and vowed to eliminate the Islamic State group. "The Iranian regime has been the spearhead of global terrorism since the (Ayatollah Ruhollah) Khomeini revolution" in...

US President Donald Trump's daughter Ivanka said Sunday that ultra-conservative Saudi Arabia has made "encouraging" progress in empowering women but more freedom is needed. "Saudi Arabia's progress, especially in recent years, is very encouraging," Trump's eldest daughter told a group of...

U.S. President Donald Trump will call on Arab leaders to confront "Islamist extremism" during a speech on Sunday in which he will portray fighting terrorism as a battle between good and evil rather than a clash of civilizations. "This is a battle between barbaric criminals who seek to...

Tunisian protesters demanding jobs have closed down a second oil pumping station in the south in defiance of government attempts to protect oil and gasfields with troops and negotiate an end to unrest, two local radios reported on Sunday. Protesters peacefully shut a pumping station at...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Sunday he will discuss peace efforts with U.S. President Donald Trump when he visits this week, while the Israeli cabinet considered economic gestures toward the Palestinians. Trump landed in Saudi Arabia on Saturday for his first foreign tour...

A German aid worker and an Afghan guard were killed as gunmen stormed an international guest house in central Kabul, officials said Sunday, as insecurity rises in the war-torn country. A Finnish woman is missing and presumed to be kidnapped in the attack late Saturday on the guest house run...

 A spokesman for the Nigerian army says troops fought Boko Haram in the Lake Chad area, killing 13 of the Islamic extremists and arresting 10 others, including 6 women believed to have helped smuggle supplies to the insurgents. Col. Timothy Antigha said soldiers of the of 8 Task Force...