The Pentagon late Saturday rejected media claims that U.S. soldiers at a PYD camp in Syria had been killed in an explosion. Earlier Saturday, some media reports claimed five U.S. soldiers and 2 PKK terrorists were killed in a blast which ripped through a PYD camp in Hasakah province,...

Music fell silent, weddings were canceled and people wept in the streets Saturday as Cubans faced their first day without the leader who steered their island to both greater social equality and years of economic ruin. Across a hushed capital, dozens of Cubans said they felt genuine pain at...

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the latest situation in Syria over the phone late Saturday, according to a presidential source. The leaders talked about the recent developments in war-torn Syria and efforts to find a solution to the...

Hillary Clinton's election campaign said Saturday it would join in a recount of votes in the state of Wisconsin although it has not seen any irregularities so far in the White House contest won by Donald Trump. Marc Erik Elias, an election lawyer for the Democratic candidate, said in a post...

(The Daily Star)- U.S. President Barack Obama offered a "hand of friendship" to Cubans on Saturday after the death of Fidel Castro, while his successor, Republican President-elect Donald Trump gave his first reaction on Twitter, declaring "Fidel Castro is dead!" Trump, who takes office on...

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called Saturday for greater cooperation between regional rivals Iran and Turkey to help establish stability in Syria and Iraq. "Today when the region is in a critical condition, cooperation and consultation by Tehran and Ankara in resolving issues can make a...

(The Daily Star )- Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev Saturday hailed Fidel Castro, the Cuban socialist icon who has aged 90, for "strengthening" his island nation. "Fidel stood up and strengthened his country during the harshest American blockade, when there was colossal pressure on him...

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu visited Iran on Saturday and met President Hassan Rouhani, Iranian state media reported, in rare previously announced talks between the regional rivals. Cavusoglu was also due to meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif during the visit, the...

President-elect Donald Trump's transition team is ignoring questions about efforts to recount votes in key battleground states, focusing instead on the latest additions to his administration. Trump chose Fox News analyst Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland to serve as deputy national security...

After operating out of Pakistan for more than a decade, the leaders of Afghanistan's Taliban movement may have moved back to their homeland to try to build on this year's gains in the war and to establish a permanent presence. If confirmed, the move would be a sign of the Taliban's...

Thousands of protesters braved sleet and freezing temperatures in Seoul on Saturday to demand President Park Geun-Hye resign over a corruption scandal or face impeachment. Police said 25,000 officers had been deployed across the South Korean capital and roads leading to the presidential Blue...

Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday, his younger brother announced to the nation. He was 90. A towering figure of the second half of the 20th...

As "Black Friday" kicks off the annual holiday shopping season, US retailers are hopeful in light of stock market records and job growth, but leery of cut-throat pricing from online competition. The annual shopping frenzy once again kicked off late Thursday after the Thanksgiving holiday...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday warned the European Union he would sign a law bringing back the death penalty if it was approved by parliament. "Democracy, it's respecting the people's will," Erdogan said in a speech in Istanbul. EU officials have repeatedly made clear that...

A prominent Brazilian government minister resigned on Friday in a corruption scandal reportedly implicating President Michel Temer. "I am asking to be relieved of my position," government secretary Geddel Vieira Lima said in a letter published in the media. Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper...

The European Union should not freeze Turkey's negotiations to join the bloc, Germany's Foreign Ministry said on Friday, a day after members of the European Parliament voted in a non-binding motion in support of such a freeze. "It is important that we keep talking," Foreign Ministry...

Israel has accused France of aiding a boycott of the Jewish state, after Paris announced new guidelines for labelling goods from settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories. France published the guidelines late Thursday on enforcing European Union regulations on labelling goods from...

An Australian citizen believed to be a top recruiter for ISIS is under arrest, the New York Times reported on Friday, citing an unnamed U.S. military official, months after Australia said he had been killed in a U.S. air strike. Australia said in May that Neil Prakash, who was linked to...

At least 74 people were confirmed dead Friday after a platform at a power plant's cooling tower collapsed during construction in eastern China. State news agency Xinhua reported that the victims of Thursday's incident at the Fengcheng Power Plant in the city of Yichun in Jiangxi Province...

Germany’s leading airline Lufthansa cancelled nearly 830 flights scheduled for Friday as pilots continued a strike for a third consecutive day. Lufthansa said the industrial action would affect all flights within Germany and Europe, and ground 830 short- and medium-haul flights. Since...