Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the war in Syria with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Monday, including Turkey's military operations there and the need to cooperate on aid to Aleppo. At a joint news conference after a meeting in Istanbul, Erdogan and Putin said they both agreed on the...

Paul Ryan, the top Republican in the U.S. Congress, said on Monday he would not defend Donald Trump nor campaign with him, plunging the Republican candidate's presidential bid deeper into crisis over his sexually aggressive remarks about women. Ryan, speaker of the House of Representatives,...

Syrian insurgents pushed government forces and their allies out of two villages in Hama province on Monday, regaining some areas recently lost, rebel officials and a monitoring group reported. The Syrian government side had taken over the villages, Maan and al-Kabariya, on Sunday as part of...

Turkey and Russia signed an intergovernmental agreement for the Turkish Stream natural gas pipeline project in Istanbul on Monday. Energy Minister Berat Albayrak and his Russian counterpart Alexander Novak signed the agreement following a meeting between President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and...