The presidents of Turkey and Russia formally launched the TurkStream pipeline Wednesday which will carry Russian natural gas to southern Europe through Turkey, part of Moscow's efforts to reduce shipments via Ukraine. The pipeline project, stretching 930 km (580 miles) across the Black Sea,...

The EU's top official told Britain on Wednesday that it could lose its open access to the European market if it refused to extend post-Brexit partnership talks beyond 2020. Ursula von der Leyen's warning to Prime Minister Boris Johnson came ahead of their first meeting in her capacity as...

 Ukraine’s embassy in Iran dropped an initial reference to engine failure as the cause of a Ukrainian plane crash outside Tehran on Wednesday. It said in a second statement that the causes had not been disclosed and that any previous comments were not official. Asked at a...

Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday that his country's attack was "a slap in the face of the U.S.," and said the military action is still "not enough." Khamenei made these statements in a televised interview, hours after the Iranian missile strike on two Iraqi...