ANKARA: Turkey has asked German authorities to detain and extradite a prominent Syrian Kurdish leader who was briefly arrested in the Czech Republic last month, state media reported Monday. Saleh Muslim, the former co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), was detained late Feb. 24...

MOSCOW: It sounds like a thriller: nearly half a ton of cocaine was hidden in bags at the Russian Embassy's school in Buenos Aires before being loaded on a Russian government plane bound for Moscow. Yet that's exactly what happened in a recent sting run by Russia and Argentina to nab a...

Syrian government warplanes supported by Russia continued their relentless bombardment of the rebel-controlled eastern suburbs of Damascus for a sixth day Friday, killing nine people, opposition activists and a war monitor reported. The death toll from the past week climbed to more than 400....

Turkey's opposition said Thursday new electoral regulations proposed by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's ruling party and its nationalist allies could open the door to fraud and jeopardize the fairness of 2019 elections. Under a draft law submitted to parliament Wednesday, security...