Germany will not grant any more state aid for ailing banks, a senior lawmaker in Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservative bloc said on Thursday, a day after the government denied it was working on a rescue plan for Deutsche Bank, its biggest lender. Deutsche (DBKGn.DE) is disputing a fine of...

Turkey's Besiktas played to a 1-1 draw Wednesday against Ukraine's defending champions Dynamo Kyiv in the Champions League tournament. Ricardo Quaresma scored the only goal for the Black Eagles on a spectacular free kick in the 29th minute at the Vodafone Arena in Istanbul. Dynamo Kyiv's...

Two Pakistani soldiers were killed in an exchange of fire with Indian forces across the de facto border in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Thursday, the Pakistani army said, as tension between the nuclear-armed neighbors remains high. The exchange of fire took place in the...

Three village guards were martyred and two others injured Thursday in a PKK terrorist attack in the southeast corner of Turkey. Security sources told Anadolu Agency on condition of anonymity due to the restrictions on speaking to media that PKK terrorists attacked village guards who were in...

President Barack Obama acknowledged Wednesday that he would not deploy a game-changing force in Syria to end the brutal fighting since U.S. national security was not at stake. Obama’s comments came at a town hall conversation hosted by CNN, at a military base in Fort Lee, Virginia....

The army on Wednesday recaptured the Al-Dabour Island region in Iraq’s western Anbar province from the Daesh terrorist group, Iraqi Army General Qassim al-Muhammadi told Anadolu Agency. "The Iraqi army, backed by airstrikes carried out by the international coalition and the Hashd al-Ashaeri...

Chinese authorities said Wednesday that 27 people are missing in eastern Zhejiang province after a landslide hit a village during torrential rains related to Typhoon Megi. State news agency Xinhua cited the provincial government as saying that “several” houses and buildings were destroyed in...

Congress on Wednesday overwhelmingly rejected President Barack Obama’s veto of legislation that allows the victims of terror attacks to sue foreign governments, marking Obama's first congressional override. The measure received support well beyond a two-thirds super majority to pass...

Russian or Syrian warplanes knocked two hospitals out of service in the besieged rebel sector of Aleppo on Wednesday and ground forces intensified an assault in a battle which the United Nations said had made the city worse than a slaughterhouse. Two patients died in one of the hospitals and...

An Ankara court on Wednesday remanded in custody a man involved in a knife incident outside the Israeli embassy in the Turkish capital last week, judicial sources said. The suspect -- identified earlier by Ankara Governorship as 38-year-old Konya-born Osman Nuri Caliskan -- confessed during...

At least two people were reportedly shot at a South Carolina elementary school on Wednesday. It's unclear if the victims are teachers, students or others. Police are responding to the incident at Townville Elementary School. Fox Carolina News reported that a suspect is in custody....

Washington will increase the number of its advisors in Iraq in line with a request by Baghdad, according to an Iraqi government statement issued Wednesday. "The reason for the increase of U.S. advisors in Iraq is to provide the necessary support for the imminent campaign to recapture Mosul...

Six PKK terrorists surrendered and two others were captured in Turkey's southeast, the military said Wednesday. A Turkish General Staff statement said six terrorists surrendered themselves to security forces in Silopi district of Sirnak province after having escaped from their shelters in...

From a sandbagged army post near the border with Syria, Lebanese soldiers gaze through tripod-mounted binoculars into hills where jihadist militants are entrenched, a forgotten front in Syria's civil war that has led to bombings inside Lebanon. There is frequent fighting between the army and...

More than 400 cases of torture have been reported in prisons across Tunisia, a Tunisian NGO said Wednesday. According to the Tunisian Human Rights League (LTDH), however, alleged torture cases by the Tunisian regime -- which reportedly occurred in the period from October 2013 to October 2015...

A Swiss military helicopter crashed over the Alps on Wednesday, the country’s defense ministry has confirmed. The aircraft came down over the Gotthard Pass in south-eastern Switzerland, according to a ministry statement. There was no information about the number of people involved, but...

A concrete wall being built to stop illegal crossings along the length of Turkey's 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria will be finished by the end of February, an official at a Turkish state institution with knowledge of the project said on Wednesday. Ankara has long been under pressure from...

EU Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management Christos Stylianides on Wednesday stressed the urgent need to end the Syrian civil war, decrying attacks on aid convoys. "When convoys are deliberately shot at, it becomes virtually impossible to deliver aid. There has never been a...

Four people, including three policemen, were killed in a shooting attack in Egypt’s restive Sinai Peninsula on Wednesday. Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a microbus in North Sinai’s city of Arish, an Egyptian security source told Anadolu Agency. “Three policemen and the driver were...

The Bulgarian government on Wednesday nominated European Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva to stand for the United Nations Secretary-General post after another candidate, Irina Bokova, dropped in the ranking in the fifth U.N. Security Council secret ballot. The nomination of Georgieva, a...