Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has cancelled a planned rally in Rotterdam, where he had been due to campaign in favor of a proposed new Turkish constitution that gives more powers to the country's president, Dutch news agency ANP reported on Wednesday. The news agency quoted from...

Israel's parliament gave preliminary approval Wednesday to two measures that would limit calls to prayers from mosques, including one prohibiting the use of loudspeakers at all hours, a parliament statement said. The second of the bills would ban loudspeakers between 11 pm and 7 am in urban...

Liverpool defender Joel Matip believes they can learn from the adverse results they suffered earlier this year and ensure a strong finish to their Premier League campaign. The Merseysiders have been knocked out of the FA Cup and League Cup while their league title bid has faltered as they...

A group of feminist activists was detained in Moscow Wednesday, International Women's Day, after protesting by the Kremlin walls with a banner reading "Men have been in power 200 years, down with them!" OVD Info, a website that monitors detentions of activists, wrote that seven people were...

Yemen's Al-Qaeda has detained two militants accused of being U.S. informants in a district targeted by multiple air raids over the past week, a tribal leader said Wednesday. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) arrested two of its operatives in Mawjan district in the southern Abyan...

Iraqi forces in west Mosul worked to clear bombs and searched for extremist fighters in recaptured areas Wednesday to set the stage for renewed offensive operations, officers said. Iraqi security forces launched a major operation to retake west Mosul -- ISIS' last major urban bastion in the...

A U.S. Navy ship changed course towards Iranian Revolutionary Guard vessels in the Strait of Hormuz Saturday, a guard commander was quoted as saying Wednesday while issuing a warning. A U.S. official told Reuters Monday that multiple fast-attack vessels from the Revolutionary Guard had come...

Iraq will continue hitting ISIS targets in Syria, as well as in neighboring countries if they give their approval, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Wednesday. "I respect the sovereignty of states, and I have secured the approval of Syria to strike positions (on its territory)," he...

Armenia's President Serzh Sarkisian has urged international powers to step up pressure on Azerbaijan to avoid all-out war over the disputed Nagorny Karabakh region, accusing his nation's arch-foe of military "blackmail". "The danger of a new war is constant and will persist until Azerbaijan...

Indian police Wednesday shot dead a suspected ISIS sympathizer who they said was involved in a train explosion that injured 10 people. Police said they ended a nearly 12-hour stand-off in the early hours by storming the house where the suspect, identified as Saifullah, was holed up in...

Thousands of people have fled clashes between the Myanmar military and ethnic rebels along the border with China, a Chinese official said, as fighting threatened leader Aung San Suu Kyi's top goal of reaching peace with minorities. About 30 people were killed on Monday in the attack staged...

China, fearing a rapid escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula, called on North Korea on Wednesday to stop its nuclear and missile tests and for South Korea and the United States to stop joint military drills and seek talks instead. North Korea launched four ballistic missiles on...

(New York Times)- The top American military officer met Tuesday with his Russian and Turkish counterparts to discuss how to avoid an unintended confrontation as forces from all three nations operate on an increasingly crowded battlefield in northern Syria. The unusual three-way meeting was...

Gunmen, including at least one dressed as a doctor, attacked a military hospital close to the U.S. embassy in the Afghan capital Kabul on Wednesday and were engaging security forces inside the building, officials and witnesses said. A security official said the attack began with an explosion...

Alexis Sanchez was named in Arsenal's starting XI for Tuesday's Champions League last-16 second leg at home to Bayern Munich following reports of a training-ground bust-up. The Chile star, 28, was dropped for Arsenal's 3-1 loss at Liverpool last Saturday after reportedly clashing with...

Turkey's foreign minister accused Berlin Tuesday of exerting systematic pressure on Turkish citizens in Germany and hampering those who wanted to campaign in support of President Tayyip Erdogan's bid for new powers at a referendum next month. Mevlut Cavusoglu was speaking at a rally of...

Spain hinted Tuesday it wants to receive fewer refugees from European Union border areas than it had agreed, arguing the number of people needing relocation was far less than thought. The EU in 2015 approved a plan to share out 160,000 refugees already on European soil, mainly in Italy and...

Five suspected ISIS are to stand trial in Jordan on charges of planning a deadly suicide attack last year on the Syrian border, a judge said Tuesday. "We have referred the file of the five accused, who are Arab nationals, to the state security court to try them in the case of the terrorist...

Iraqi forces said Tuesday they had seized the main government offices in Mosul and its famed museum as they made steady progress in their battle to retake the city's west from jihadists. News of the advances came on the third day of a renewed offensive against the Islamic State group in west...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday pardoned a 46-year old woman who was sentenced to seven years in a penal colony for sending a text message to a Georgian acquaintance about the movement of Russian military equipment. An order from the president published by the Kremlin said Oksana...