Turkish forces will withdraw from the Syrian border region of Afrin, leaving it to its "real owners", once it has been cleared of "terrorists", Turkey said on Monday. Turkey and its Syrian rebel allies swept into the regional capital, also called Afrin, on Sunday, raising their flags in...

At least 397 undocumented migrants, including women and children, were held in south and eastern Turkey, security sources said Sunday. Turkish Coast Guards detained 165 Syrians traveling in a boat in the Mediterranean Sea, said the sources who refused to be named due to restrictions on...

Vladimir Putin headed to an overwhelming win in Russia’s presidential election Sunday, adding six years in the Kremlin for the man who has led the world’s largest country for all of the 21st century.  The vote was tainted by widespread reports of ballot-box stuffing and forced...

Tunisian police used tear gas Sunday to disperse dozens of protesters demanding jobs and development in a mining town in the center of the country, an AFP correspondent said. “Work, freedom, national dignity,” protesters chanted in Mdhilla, demanding that a portion of revenues produced from...