German prosecutors say an acquaintance of suspected Berlin Christmas market attacker Anis Amri has been arrested in a separate case. Frauke Koehler, a spokeswoman for federal prosecutors, said that the 26-year-old Tunisian had known Amri since the end of 2015 and the pair ate together at a...

President-elect Donald Trump Wednesday again cast doubt on U.S. intelligence findings that Russia hacked the presidential election, repeating WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's assertion that leaked information damaging to Democrats did not come from Moscow. "Julian Assange said 'a 14 year...

Tunisian security forces have dismantled a 13-member "terrorist cell" that was funneling young recruits to extremist groups, authorities said Wednesday, as part of a growing crackdown on extremists. The suspects, aged between 22 and 43, were arrested Tuesday in Hergla, a town north of the...

The relentless demands for success at Real Madrid have cost many high-profile and heavily experienced coaches their jobs, but Zinedine Zidane has made the move into senior management look serene as he celebrates a year in charge as a European and world champion. Madrid was a club with a very...

An Iraqi attack helicopter crashed Wednesday south of the Mosul battlefield, killing all four crew members, security officials said. "During an army aviation mission this morning, an aircraft crashed due to a technical failure," the Joint Operations Command coordinating the fight against...

 At least three soldiers were killed in clashes with al-Qaeda militants in southern Yemen in an operation launched by the internationally recognized government of President Abd-Rabu Mansour Hadi, security sources said. They said at least 10 other soldiers were wounded when troops were...

Myanmar faces a growing danger of attacks by foreign supporters of ISIS recruited from Southeast Asian networks in support of persecuted Muslim Rohingyas, Malaysia's top counter-terrorism official has said. Malaysian authorities have detained a suspected ISIS follower planning to head to...

(The New York Times)-  The Turkish authorities said on Wednesday that they had identified the fugitive gunman who went on a deadly rampage at an upscale Istanbul nightclub in the early hours of New Year’s Day, although they did not release his name. “The identity of the person...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on Iran to exert pressure on Shi'ite-backed militias and the Syrian government to stop violating a ceasefire in Syria, warning it was putting planned peace talks in peril. Turkey is working with Russia on the question of sanctions for...

The family of an Iraqi female journalist kidnapped in Baghdad last week says she has been released. Nibras Shawqi al-Qaisi told The Associated Press Wednesday that her sister, Afrah, was released the night before, without providing further details. Gunmen who said they were members of...

Turkish police Wednesday detained at least five suspected ISIS militants believed to be linked to the deadly Istanbul nightclub attack, the state-run news agency reported. The operation was launched in the Aegean port city of Izmir and was ongoing, Anadolu Agency said. The gunman, who...

Russian officials will visit Turkey on Jan. 9-10 to discuss the framework for Syrian peace talks planned to be held in Kazakhstan, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in a televised interview with the state-run Anadolu news agency. Russia and Turkey back opposing sides in the...

In three words of a tweet this week, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump vowed North Korea would never test an intercontinental ballistic missile. "It won't happen!" Trump wrote after North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Sunday his nuclear-capable country was close to testing an ICBM of a...

Turkey's state of emergency will be extended for another three months, the government said Tuesday. Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus made the announcement following a Cabinet meeting. Kurtulmus told reporters that ministers decided the state of emergency would be extended as of Jan....

President-elect Donald Trump called Monday for the end of all detainee releases from the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying in a tweet that those who remain are “extremely dangerous people” who “should not be allowed back onto the battlefield.” The statement comes as the Obama...

U.S.-led coalition jets carried out maneuvers in support of Turkey's ongoing operation to wrest control of the northern Syrian town of al-Bab from Daesh, the Pentagon confirmed Tuesday. "There was a request when some Turkish forces came under fire for air support, and there were flights...

German investigators identified the Tunisian man who killed 12 people in Berlin before Christmas as a threat in February last year but decided it was unlikely he would carry out an attack, the Sueddeutsche Zeitung reported. Anis Amri, 24, ploughed a truck through a Berlin Christmas market on...

Iraqi forces on Tuesday captured a major district of Daesh-held Mosul amid an ongoing army offensive aimed at ousting the terrorist group from the northern city.  "Iraqi forces have taken Mosul’s southeastern Al-Hay al-Senai district following fierce clashes with Daesh militants,"...

The U.S. Defense Department, reacting to North Korea's statement that it plans to test an intercontinental ballistic missile, said Tuesday it was confident in its ability to protect U.S. allies and the U.S. homeland from threats from Pyongyang. "We have a ballistic missile defense ......

Albanian civic organizations have started a 10-day campaign to collect funding for children in Syria. The initiative was launched Tuesday by the Interreligious Cooperation Center and the Albanian Red Cross in the central city of Elbasan, with the local mosque contributing the first amount of...