Two people were killed after an assailant reportedly drove a car into pedestrians and a stabbed a security guard near a synagogue in Manchester in northwest England on Thursday, British police said, adding that officers had shot the suspect. Greater Manchester Police said officers had been...

Russia launched its biggest aerial attack against Ukraine overnight, a Ukrainian official said Sunday, part of an escalating bombing campaign that has further dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the 3-year-old war. Russia fired a total of 537 aerial weapons at Ukraine,...

The European Union announced the imposition of sanctions on five Syrian figures, including three prominent military leaders of the former Syrian regime, for their involvement in gross human rights violations, most notably the sectarian violence that occurred in the Syrian coastal region in...

An extremist jailed over the Paris and Brussels attacks in 2015 and 2016 went on trial in Stockholm on Wednesday for his role in the 2014 capture and subsequent killing of a Jordanian pilot burned alive in Syria. The case is considered unique as the other extremists involved in the brutal...

French President Emmanuel Macron condemned the brutal killing of a Muslim worshipper inside a mosque in southern France, saying racism and religious hatred have "no place" in the country. "Freedom of worship cannot be violated," Macron said on X, offering his support to "our fellow Muslim...

 A powerful 6.2 magnitude earthquake struck Türkiye’s Istanbul on Wednesday, injuring at least 236 people in panic-driven incidents, officials said. The earthquake's epicenter was in Istanbul's Silivri district, according to the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD)....

British counter-terrorism police said on Thursday they had arrested two men accused of being linked to the banned group Hezbollah, saying their investigation involved alleged activity both overseas and in Britain. Detectives from London’s Counter Terrorism Command (CTC) arrested a...

Turkish authorities detained President Tayyip Erdogan's main political rival Ekrem Imamoglu on Wednesday on an array of charges including corruption and aiding a terrorist group. The Istanbul mayor's arrest comes days before his expected nomination as presidential candidate for Turkey's main...

The Trump administration has resumed the flow of military equipment and intelligence assistance for Ukraine after Kyiv lent its support to a 30-day ceasefire proposal, the White House confirmed Wednesday. National Security Council spokesperson James Hewitt confirmed to Anadolu that the aid has...

France is offering intelligence to Ukraine, Defense Minister Sebastien Lecornu said on Thursday, a day after Washington said it was suspending intelligence sharing with Kyiv, an effort to step up pressure on Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The United States is pushing for Zelenskyy...

Ordinary Ukrainians were dumbfounded by Friday’s raised-voice confrontation between President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his US counterpart Donald Trump at the White House. “I just don’t even have the words,” said 32-year-old Roman Shkanov, an office worker. “For such a strong country to...

The US State Department this week terminated a USAID initiative that invested hundreds of millions to restore Ukraine’s energy grid from Russian attacks, according to a report. Overnight power outages have occurred in parts of Ukraine following attacks on energy infrastructure, NBC News...

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal on Friday voiced support for President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after his fiery clash at the White House, warning that a cease-fire without security guarantees would open the door to further Russian expansion across Europe. Zelenskyy got into a heated war of...

Germany’s conservative alliance comprising the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) have won the country’s parliamentary elections with 28.6% of the vote, according to official provisional results announced Monday by the Electoral Commission. The far-right...

Germany’s conservative CDU/CSU alliance led by Friedrich Merz won Sunday’s elections with between 28.5 and 29 percent of the vote, according to first TV exit polls. The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) followed in second place with 19.5 to 20 percent, roughly doubling its result in...

French President Emmanuel Macron said Tuesday that peace in Ukraine “must be accompanied by strong and credible security guarantees,” following a phone call with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “We seek a strong and lasting peace in Ukraine. To achieve this, Russia must end...

The UK plans to ease sanctions on Syria following the fall of Bashar al-Assad, under a new plan announced by the government on Thursday. Still weighed down by heavy international sanctions, the new Syrian government is aiming to persuade Western capitals that the extremist origins of the...

German Christian Democratic Union candidate Friedrich Merz has announced a tough programme on refugees and migration on his first day as chancellor – if he wins in February. Merz, 69, will reject all migrants without valid entry documents at the German border and stop asylum seekers from...

At least eleven people are dead and up to 80 people injured in an attack on a German Christmas market in Magdeburg, Bild newspaper reported Friday, without citing its sources. A car drove into a crowd at a Christmas market in the eastern German town of Magdeburg, broadcaster MDR and other...

Russia launched a large-scale attack on Ukraine’s energy facilities on Friday morning, Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko said. “The enemy continues its terror. Once again, the energy sector across Ukraine is under massive attack,” Galushchenko wrote in a post on Facebook....