The Kremlin said Friday that Turkey had provided Russian forces with the target location for airstrikes in Syria that accidentally killed three Turkish troops. "The situation is obvious, unfortunately. Our military while launching strikes on terrorists followed coordinates that were given to...

 U.S. President Donald Trump does not believe Israeli settlement growth in Palestinian territories is "good for peace", he told a paper Friday, in his most direct comments on the matter since inauguration. In the interview published in Hebrew by the Israel Hayom newspaper, Trump also...

German prosecutors say they have charged a 28-year-old Turkish man with membership in a terrorist organization on allegations he joined ISIS and another extremist organization in Syria. Frankfurt prosecutors said in a statement Friday that the suspect, whose name wasn't released, is accused...

President Donald Trump's meeting with Japan's prime minister offers a chance to shore up a long-standing security alliance and repair economic ties shaken by U.S. withdrawal from a Pacific trade pact. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is expected to propose more Japanese investment in the U.S.,...

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians rallied across Iran on Friday to swear allegiance to the clerical establishment following U.S. President Donald Trump's warning that he had put the Islamic Republic "on notice", state TV reported. Carrying "Death to America" banners and effigies of Trump,...

The Red Cross was desperately searching for two employees who went missing after their convoy came under insurgent fire in northern Afghanistan, leaving six other workers dead, the charity said Friday. The workers were ambushed in northern Jowzjan province Wednesday while they were en route...

Twelve Indonesians, including three children, have been killed on the holiday island of Bali after landslides triggered by heavy rains engulfed several villages, an official said Friday. Several houses were also buried and badly damaged in the incident, which took place overnight from...

Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray on Thursday rejected a CBS news report that he had made changes to U.S. President Donald Trump's speech announcing an executive order for the construction of a border wall with Mexico. "I never thought I would use this phrase, but today I'm doing it:...

U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to honor the longstanding "One China" policy during a phone call with Chinese President Xi Jinping, taking steps to improve ties after angering Beijing by talking to the leader of Taiwan. Trump further unnerved Beijing over the self-ruled island in December...

 Russian air strikes accidentally killed three Turkish soldiers during an operation against Islamic State in Syria on Thursday, the Turkish military said, highlighting the risk of unintended clashes between the numerous outside powers in a complex war. "During an operation by a Russia...

A Swedish court Thursday found a TV journalist guilty of human trafficking for helping a Syrian boy migrate to the country and gave him a suspended sentence. In the spring of 2014, Fredrik Onnevall was filming a documentary about the response of European nationalist parties to the migration...

South African police and military forces are deploying ahead of a speech in parliament by President Jacob Zuma, the target of protesters who say he should quit because of corruption allegations. Zuma will give an annual address on the economy and other matters of national importance Thursday...

The Kremlin said Thursday it was unlikely that the situation in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists are ranged against the Ukrainian army, would be part of any deal with U.S. President Donald Trump. When asked how preparations for a meeting between Trump and President Vladimir...

The exiled former leader of the Maldives announced Thursday he would return to run for election as president of the troubled Indian Ocean nation, despite facing jail after a controversial conviction on terror-related charges. Mohamed Nasheed said he had decided to challenge President...

Russia views Romania as a NATO outpost and as a threat due to it hosting elements of a U.S. anti-missile shield, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday, citing a Russian foreign ministry official. The U.S. military, which says the shield is needed to protect from Iran, not threaten...

(Financial Times)- There was a time when “Abu Ahmad”, a bulky man with a heavy limp, held court in the smoke-filled cafés of southern Turkey. Fellow Syrian opposition leaders looked to him for help; foreign intelligence officers sought his opinion. When he crossed into Syria, he brought bags...

Hundreds of South Korean artists sued President Park Geun-hye and former aides on Thursday for trying to silence them with a blacklist of writers, actors and others critical of the scandal-plagued administration. Park's former presidential chief of staff and her culture minister have been...

Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, on Wednesday described the president's Twitter attacks on the judiciary as "disheartening and demoralizing," Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said. Gorsuch spokesman Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist hired by the White...

(Wall Street Journal)-American military airstrikes last week killed nearly a dozen al Qaeda militants in Syria, including a top-ranked operative, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. One strike Feb. 3 killed 10 al Qaeda militants gathered near Idlib, Syria, and a second on Feb. 4 killed Abu...

Belgium's terror monitoring centre has expressed concerns about the spread of Saudi- and Gulf-backed fundamentalist Islam in the country's mosques, according to an official report published in local media Wednesday. The OCAM national crisis centre said the austere Sunni doctrine of Wahhabism...