German Chancellor Angela Merkel criticized Turkey's use of an Interpol arrest warrant to detain a German writer in Spain, telling an election town hall event on Sunday that this amounted to abuse of the international police agency. Dogan Akhanli was stopped in Spain on Saturday...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A young Syrian police officer was beaten almost to death by pro-Assad militants in Homs province when he was with his patrol checking the cars entering to the central city, activists said on Sunday.   Militants of Nusoor Homs militia, or Homs Eagles, refused to be...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas told Israeli opposition lawmakers Sunday that he had proposed rolling back his month-old suspension of security coordination with Israel, but that they did not respond to the overture, the delegation said. Abbas suspended ties on July 21, demanding that...

Trade negotiators from the United States, Canada and Mexico on Sunday wrapped up the first round of talks to revamp the NAFTA trade pact, amid signs that an ambitious schedule to conclude negotiations by early 2018 could slip in the coming months. A U.S. official said the three nations would...