Whatever the expectations for President Trump’s new relationship with Russia, anyone looking for a dramatic shift from the Kremlin is going to have to wait past Day One.  While some Russian companies and political activists have taken advantage of “Trumpomania” here, holding...

(Sky News)- To the very end nobody was absolutely sure that Yahya Jammeh, The Gambia's president of 22 years, would actually leave. A jet set to take him to Guinea had idled on the runway of the country's main airport in Banjul for seven hours as he continued talks with negotiators about his...

On the first full day as U.S. president, Donald Trump will head to CIA headquarters on Saturday, signaling an effort to mend fences after he slammed spy agencies for their investigation into Russian hacking during the presidential election. Trump engaged in an unprecedented feud with the CIA...

(Time)- In the year since the nuclear deal, Iran's destabilizing presence has grown Just days before Christmas, as U.S. policymakers were settling into the holidays, Iran staged massive war drills, with one of its top military leaders even boasting that the Persian Gulf was within...

The U.S. State Department said on Saturday it will not send a delegation from Washington to attend Syrian peace talks in the Kazakh capital next week due to immediate demands of the transition. The State Department's acting spokesman Mark Toner said U.S. Ambassador to Kazakhstan, George...

Thousands of people marched through central London on Saturday as part of a global day of protests against new US President Donald Trump and his derogatory remarks about women. The largely female crowd, which also had many men and children, marched from the US embassy to Trafalgar Square,...

Gambians on Saturday awaited the departure of Yahya Jammeh to a life of exile, with some nervousness remaining over a deal reached with west African leaders that headed off a regional military intervention. Jammeh accepted to hand power peacefully to President Adama Barrow, who is waiting in...

Riot police are entering a prison in northeastern Brazil where 26 inmates were killed recently, in an attempt to separate rival gangs inside the complex. A helicopter flew overhead Saturday as an armored vehicle and about 40 police forces including riot police entered the Alcacuz prison...

(Middle East Monitor)- NATO member Denmark will deploy special forces to Syria to fight against Daesh, in an expansion of its role in the US-led operation “Inherent Resolve” against Daesh where it already has ground troops operating in Iraq.”Based on a concrete approach from the coalition, the...

Protesters set fires and hurled bricks in a daylong assault on the city hosting Donald Trump's inauguration, registering their rage against the new president in a series of clashes that led to more than 200 arrests. Police used pepper spray and stun grenades to prevent the chaos from spilling...

The country’s former president who refused to leave office after election defeat in December finally agreed to step down early Saturday. Yahya Jammeh said in a national broadcast he believes no one has to die to solve the political crisis gripping the small West African nation. “As a...

An explosion in a busy vegetable market killed at least 21 people on Saturday in Pakistan's remote northwestern tribal region, an official said. About 40 others were wounded in the blast in Kurram region, near the border with Afghanistan, said Sajid Hussain Turi, member of the National...

Drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman appeared in a U.S. court on Friday after his surprise extradition from Mexico and pleaded not guilty to charges that he ran the world's largest drug-trafficking organization during a decades-long criminal career. Guzman, 59, once one of the world's most...

(Sky News)- Donald Trump will mark his first full day as President with a church service, and possibly a visit to the headquarters of the CIA.  The new President mixed pageantry and celebrations with practical politics in the hours after being sworn into office. Immediately after...

A violent protest that erupted in Washington on U.S. President Donald Trump's inauguration day is a small, isolated incident, Interim Chief of Police Peter Newsham told CNN in an interview on Friday, adding that about 90 people have been arrested. Newsham said the violent group consisted of...

The Trump administration intends to develop a "state of the art" missile defense system to protect against attacks from Iran and North Korea, the White House said in a policy position posted on its website on Friday. The statement, posted on the White House website within minutes of Donald...

US President Donald Trump placed the battle against Islamic extremism at the heart of his foreign policy as he took office on Friday, vowing to work with allies to destroy the extremist threat. "We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones and unite the civilized world against radical...

The effort to impeach President Donald John Trump is already underway. At the moment the new commander in chief was sworn in, a campaign to build public support for his impeachment went live at ImpeachDonaldTrumpNow.org, spearheaded by two liberal advocacy groups aiming to lay the groundwork...

Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on Friday, succeeding Barack Obama and taking control of a divided country in a transition of power that he has declared will lead to “America First” policies at home and abroad. As scattered protests erupted elsewhere in...

Black-clad activists protesting U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration smashed store and car windows in Washington on Friday and fought with police in riot gear who responded with pepper spray and stun grenades. About 500 people, some wearing masks and kerchiefs over their faces,...