Russia threatened economic retaliation against Turkey on Thursday and said it was still awaiting a reasonable explanation for the shooting down of its warplane, but Turkey dismissed the threats as "emotional" and "unfitting". In an escalating war of words, President Tayyip...

Russia said Thursday that it would reinforce control over Turkish food imports as tensions surged with Ankara over the downing of a Russian warplane in Syria. "Taking into account repeated violations by Turkish producers of Russian norms, the Russian government has tasked (food safety agency)...

The United States is using sex, money and Western lifestyles to infiltrate Iran's decision-making elite, the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday. The remarks by Khamenei, who has the last word on matters of state, followed a wave of...

French warplanes destroyed an Islamic State command center at Tal Afar, some 45 kilometers west of Mosul in Iraq, a French official said on Tuesday. "We hit an Islamic State command center at Tal Afar," the official said during President Francois Hollande's visit to meet his U.S. counterpart...