Mahmoud Abbas said Tuesday Donald Trump was expected to visit the Palestinian territories "soon" and that he was ready to meet Israel's prime minister as part of the U.S. president's peace efforts. Trump is expected in Israel later this month as part of his first foreign trip and the...

ISIS has issued a video showing the beheading of what it described as a Russian intelligence officer captured in Syria, the U.S.-based SITE monitoring website reported on Tuesday. The Russian Defense Ministry and the FSB security service were not immediately available for comment. The...

South Koreans headed to voting stations on Tuesday to elect a new leader, with a strong turnout suggesting voters are eager to move on from a corruption scandal that brought down the former president and shook the political and business elite. Unless there is a major upset, liberal Moon...

Key members of the US-led coalition fighting ISIS in Iraq and Syria meet in Copenhagen on Tuesday to assess the campaign's next steps as the extremists' "caliphate" collapses. Though officials warn that military action will continue for some time, they are generally upbeat about the progress...