Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday ruled out any participation on German soil in a potential Turkish referendum about bringing back the death penalty. Immediately after winning a close vote last month that boosted his powers, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan mooted a second referendum...

ISIS has issued a video showing the beheading of what it described as a Russian intelligence officer captured in Syria, the U.S.-based SITE monitoring website reported on Tuesday. The Russian Defense Ministry and the FSB security service were not immediately available for comment. The...

German authorities say they have arrested two suspected Islamic extremists, one of whom administered the strategically important dam in eastern Syria for ISIS. Federal prosecutors say the two Syrian nationals were arrested last week in Berlin and the nearby state of Saxony-Anhalt. The...

South Koreans headed to voting stations on Tuesday to elect a new leader, with a strong turnout suggesting voters are eager to move on from a corruption scandal that brought down the former president and shook the political and business elite. Unless there is a major upset, liberal Moon...