Senegalese President Macky Sall was poised Tuesday to return to office with a first-round victory from elections last weekend, according to results reported from nearly 90 percent of the vote. Sall, 56, has so far won 2.2 million of the votes cast Sunday, against 1.7 million votes spread...

The leader of Italy’s 5-Star Movement began on Tuesday to try to stem a steady slide in support since the anti-establishment party stormed to power last year, pledging to reconsider some of its hallmarks and founding principles. 5-Star won 33 percent of the vote at the March 2018 ballot,...

Thousands of people have been displaced and dozens killed in one of the worst flare-ups to rattle a precarious truce deal in northwestern Syria, a monitor said Tuesday. Twenty regime troops and allied fighters were killed in attacks by a jihadist group on the edge of the Idlib region since...

US-backed forces in eastern Syria on Tuesday screened and treated truckloads of suspected jihadists and relatives who left a village where the Islamic State group's "caliphate" is making its last stand. The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) struggled to cope with the flow of people...