Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visited Iran on Saturday and met President Hassan Rouhani, Iranian state media reported, in rare previously announced talks between the regional rivals. Cavusoglu was also due to meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif during the visit, the...

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is ignoring questions about efforts to recount votes in key battleground states, focusing instead on the latest additions to his administration. Trump chose Fox News analyst Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland to serve as deputy national security...

Foreign firefighting planes on Friday helped Israel tackle a wave of wildfires that have forced tens of thousands to flee their homes, as police announced a dozen related arrests. Faced for the past four days with blazes across the country fed by drought and high winds, Israel received...

After operating out of Pakistan for more than a decade, the leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban movement may have moved back to their homeland to try to build on this year's gains in the war and to establish a permanent presence. If confirmed, the move would be a sign of the Taliban's...

Jury members for the third Istanbul Photo Awards 2017 -- the international news and sports photography contest organized by Anadolu Agency -- were revealed Saturday. As in past years, the jury for this year's contest is composed of some of the most prestigious names in the field of...

Thousands of protesters braved sleet and freezing temperatures in Seoul on Saturday to demand President Park Geun-Hye resign over a corruption scandal or face impeachment. Police said 25,000 officers had been deployed across the South Korean capital and roads leading to the presidential Blue...

Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday, his younger brother announced to the nation. He was 90. A towering figure of the second half of the 20th...

(Sky News)- Not just unlikely, nor merely undesirable, but "impossible" says Britain's closest ally about the desire to negotiate a full exit deal from the EU within the two-year time frame. It was an unexpectedly strong intervention from Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, speaking to me on...

As "Black Friday" kicks off the annual holiday shopping season, US retailers are hopeful in light of stock market records and job growth, but leery of cut-throat pricing from online competition. The annual shopping frenzy once again kicked off late Thursday after the Thanksgiving holiday...

(The Daily Star)- Spanish police have announced an international arrest warrant against a powerful Ukrainian oligarch, identified by media Friday as controversial gas magnate Dmytro Firtash. Judicial authorities in Barcelona ordered "three European arrest warrants issued against Ukrainian...

Iraqi forces on Thursday imposed a curfew in parts of eastern Mosul recently captured from the Daesh terrorist group, according to a military source. "On Thursday morning, the army imposed a curfew in the Kokjali area, one of the first neighborhoods in eastern Mosul to be retaken from...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned the European Union he would sign a law bringing back the death penalty if it was approved by parliament. "Democracy, it's respecting the people's will," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul. EU officials have repeatedly made clear that...

A prominent Brazilian government minister resigned on Friday in a corruption scandal reportedly implicating President Michel Temer. "I am asking to be relieved of my position," government secretary Geddel Vieira Lima said in a letter published in the media. Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper...

Fears of possible sectarian conflict continued to mount on Friday as Shia militiamen surround northern Iraq’s Daesh-held, Sunni-majority city of Tal Afar. Fighters from the Hashd al-Shaabi, an umbrella group of pro-government Shia militias, now surround the city -- populated mainly by ethnic...

The European Union should not freeze Turkey's negotiations to join the bloc, Germany's Foreign Ministry said on Friday, a day after members of the European Parliament voted in a non-binding motion in support of such a freeze. "It is important that we keep talking," Foreign Ministry...

Israel has accused France of aiding a boycott of the Jewish state, after Paris announced new guidelines for labelling goods from settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. France published the guidelines late Thursday on enforcing European Union regulations on labelling goods from...

Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday threatened to allow migrants to cross Turkey's borders after the European Parliament voted to back a freeze in membership talks with Ankara. "Listen to me. If you go any further, then the frontiers will be opened, bear that in mind," the Turkish president told...

(Ma’an News Agency)- The World Bank denounced the worsening water crisis in the Gaza Strip, calling the situation in the besieged Palestinian enclave “alarming” on Wednesday. In a statement released by the World Bank, senior water and sanitation specialist Adnan Ghosheh stated that only 10...

Turkish warplanes carried out air strikes on the Syrian city of al-Bab held by Islamic State on Friday, the military said in a statement, after four Turkish soldiers were killed in the area over the past two days. The air strikes shortly before 8 a.m. (0500 GMT) destroyed buildings believed...

An Australian citizen believed to be a top recruiter for ISIS is under arrest, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing an unnamed U.S. military official, months after Australia said he had been killed in a U.S. air strike. Australia said in May that Neil Prakash, who was linked to...