U.S. President Donald Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden during a telephone call, a rough transcript released by the White House Wednesday confirms.  Trump asked Zelensky during a July 25 conversation to get in touch...

Egyptian authorities have arrested more than 1,000 people, rights groups said Wednesday, broadening a crackdown launched after rare protests calling for the ouster of general-turned-President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The wave of arrests comes ahead of a "million-man march" Friday called for by...

Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives plunged into a formal impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump Wednesday, a move that could dramatically change the 2020 presidential race. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who had for months resisted calls for Trump's impeachment from within...

Despite the defeat of the Islamic State, Washington justifies weaponizing and safeguarding the People’s Protection Units (YPG), which are the Syrian branch of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). Washington officials do this because they think that the Kurdish-dominated YPG would be...