Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has warned Japan on Wednesday evening about terrorist group FETO's structuring in the island country. The Turkish premier has held a meeting with Japanese Minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Keiichi Ishii in the Prime Ministry....

(Sky News)- British tourists have started to arrive back in the UK from The Gambia amid that country's worsening political crisis. Gambian President Yahya Jammeh declared a state of emergency earlier this week after refusing to hand over power following his loss in last month's election....

President Barack Obama said Wednesday it was in America's interest to have "constructive" ties with Russia, but admitted the relationship had reverted to an "adversarial spirit" when Vladimir Putin regained the presidency. "I think it's in America's interest and the world's interest that we...

 Al Mourabitoun, a group linked to Al-Qaeda's North African affiliate, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in Mali that killed at least 42 people and injured more than 100 others Wednesday, according to the Mauritanian news agency Alakhbar. Al Mourabitoun, led by veteran...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, French President Francois Hollande and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed peacemaking efforts in Ukraine and Syria during a conference call on Wednesday, a Kremlin statement said. It said Putin informed his counterparts about preparations for...

Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard has made an unannounced trip to Syria, traveling to the region two months after she sat down with President-elect Donald Trump to discuss foreign policy. The Hawaii congresswoman has frequently challenged President Barack Obama on national security issues. In...

(The Wall Street Journal)- The White House conceded on Tuesday that President Barack Obama will not succeed in his efforts to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, before leaving office, removing the option of taking executive action to achieve one of his earliest campaign...

The United States on Tuesday scolded its ally Bahrain over the recent executions of three Shiites who had been sentenced to death for a deadly bomb attack on police. The executions have ignited major demonstrations and rekindled tensions between the Shiite majority and Sunni rulers of the...

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said late Tuesday that his government opposed the United States joining Syrian peace talks to be held in Kazakhstan next week, local media reported. "We are hostile to their presence and we have not invited them," Zarif said, according to the...

A South Korean judge questioned Samsung Group leader Jay Y. Lee behind closed doors on Wednesday to decide whether he should be arrested over his alleged role in a corruption scandal that led parliament to impeach President Park Geun-hye. Lee, 48, in dark overcoat and purple necktie, did not...

More than 80 percent of members of a U.S. business lobby in China say foreign companies are less welcome than in the past, a survey released on Wednesday showed, with most saying they have little confidence in China's vows to open its markets. The American Chamber of Commerce in China's...

Brazilian authorities are scrambling to stop a wave of prison violence that has killed at least 125 inmates in two weeks, many with their heads cut off or their hearts and intestines ripped out. Three massacres and many smaller fatal clashes, all in northern states, have followed a pattern that...

(New York Times)- President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia declared on Tuesday that the political memo alleging that the Kremlin had sought for years to influence President-elect Donald J. Trump was “fake,” and he said that the effort to compile such a dossier was further evidence of the political...

Russia is engaging in aggressive and destabilizing actions that are threatening the rules-based international order, Samantha Power said Tuesday in her last major speech as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. In a blistering and detailed critique of Russia's foreign and military policies,...

(CNN)- The Defense Department is prepared to provide the new administration with military options to accelerate the war against ISIS in Syria that could send additional US troops into direct combat, CNN has learned. These options would inherently increase the risk for US troops compared to...

Germany's foreign minister said Tuesday that British Prime Minister Theresa May had "finally brought a bit more clarity" with a highly anticipated speech on her government's Brexit plans. Seven months after the referendum to leave the EU, Brexit "still has not been formalized," said...

Vitaly Naumkin, a Russian adviser to U.N. envoy Staffan de Mistura, said Tuesday he still considered Geneva talks on the Syria conflict relevant. "I am sure that on Feb. 8 there will be talks in Geneva and the process focused on a political resolution will continue," Naumkin told reporters....

Russia expects to have a dialogue with the Trump administration on strategic stability, including on nuclear weapons, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. Lavrov added to reporters that such a dialogue could cover hypersonic weapons, a U.S. missile shield in Europe, space...

British American Tobacco agreed Tuesday to pay almost $50 billion (47 billion euros) for control of U.S. firm Reynolds American, creating the world's largest listed tobacco company. BAT will purchase the 57.8-percent of Reynolds American that it does not already own, BAT said, unveiling an...

After the Soviet Union sacrificed millions of lives to help defeat Nazi Germany, it received a token of gratitude from its allies: a chunk of territory surrounding the Prussian city of Konigsberg on the Baltic Sea. Now called Kaliningrad, the isolated and highly militarized Russian enclave of...