President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's dream project of building a canal in Istanbul to rival those at Suez and Panama has turned into a political showdown with the city's new mayor. Ekrem Imamoglu, who won a shock victory for the opposition in 2019 to become mayor of Turkey's largest city, says...

Suspected militia fighters have decapitated 16 people in a new village massacre near Beni in northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo, civil society sources said Friday. Three more civilians were wounded in Beni town by an explosive device Thursday night, an official source said, in a...

Thousands of mourners, including relatives of the victims, are gathering for a commemoration on the 24th anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre, the worst mass killing in Europe since World War II. The ceremony at a memorial site near Srebrenica Thursday will include the burial of 33...

The United Arab Emirates is concerned about the "massacre" seen in Sudan and supports calls for an investigation, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Anwar Gargash said Friday. Sudan's new military leaders have been under pressure after the worst violence since Omar al-Bashir's fall in...