Turkey appeared to toughen its stance in talks to reunify Cyprus by insisting Tuesday that it won't sign up to any deal involving the withdrawal of all its troops from the ethnically divided Mediterranean island nation. At talks to end Cyprus' 43-year ethnic divide at the Swiss ski resort of...

The U.S. military has carried out an air strike in Somalia against al Shabaab, an al Qaeda-linked militant insurgency that wants to overthrow Somalia's weak U.N.-backed government, U.S. officials said Monday. The strike took place at 1130 GMT on July 2, the Pentagon said. It did not disclose...

Iran has signed a $5 billion agreement with France's Total SA and a Chinese oil company to develop its massive offshore natural gas field, the first such deal with foreign companies since the landmark 2015 nuclear deal. Officials signed the agreement in Tehran on Monday. The agreement will...

Sweden is home to some 2,000 Islamist extremists, the nation's intelligence chief said Monday, a nearly 10-fold increase in less than a decade. Anders Thornberg, head of domestic spy service Sapo, attributed the rise primarily to the sophisticated propaganda machine of Daesh (ISIS)....