Syria Kurdish official says forces completed withdrawal before cease-fire ends, but Turkey continues attacks. AP

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday it was too early to know if an accord to end Turkey's assault in Syria would succeed, ahead of a deadline for Kurdish fighters to leave border areas. "Some progress has certainly been made," Pompeo said at the Heritage Foundation in Washington...

An Egyptian Islamist father and his son have been detained unlawfully since 2013 part of the political persecution of ex-aides to deposed president Mohamed Mursi, and should be freed immediately and compensated, U.N. human rights experts said. The U.N. Working Group on Arbitrary Detention...

Mozambique's President Filipe Nyusi was forecast to be heading for a landslide victory Tuesday in an election the opposition says has been tarnished by fraud while observers reported numerous irregularities. Some polling stations recorded many more votes than registered voters in last...