Iran's supreme leader called on presidential candidates on Tuesday to champion economic self-sufficiency, further distancing himself from Hassan Rouhani's policy of opening to the West and seeking foreign investment. Allies of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who aim to reclaim the presidency...

Ukraine cut electricity to parts of an eastern region controlled by pro-Russian separatists Tuesday, citing unpaid debt – a step the Kremlin said amounted to a rejection by Kiev of breakaway territories. Three years after Moscow annexed the Crimean region, tensions between Ukraine and...

The Taliban overran three security checkpoints in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, killing eight policemen and cutting off a key road and two of the region's districts, an Afghan official said on Tuesday. According to Sunatullah Timor, the provincial spokesman, the attack, which took...

 Ivanka Trump is joining Chancellor Angela Merkel and others in Berlin on Tuesday for talks on encouraging women's economic empowerment on her first international outing as a White House adviser. The one-day visit, at the invitation of the chancellor, gives Merkel and other officials...