(Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Jawad Zarif met here on Thursday, a senior State Department official said, the latest in an intensifying series of talks to reach a deal on Iran's disputed nuclear program. There was no...

Davos (Switzerland) (AFP) - Iraq's premier expressed confidence Friday that the country's struggling army is capable of retaking the city of Mosul from the Islamic State group. The chief problem, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi told a gathering of political and economic leaders...

By Mariam Karouny BEIRUT, Jan 22 (Reuters) - With a confident smile, the leader of Lebanon's Hezbollah movement warned in a recent interview that allies of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would strike back if Israeli attacks inside Syria...

Attacking religious beliefs is a form of terrorism, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Thursday. “Terrorism is not just committed by weapons,” Erdogan said during a speech at Addis Ababa University in the Ethiopian capital. “Attacks on holy values and religious...