Spain's acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez on Wednesday urged voters to give his Socialist party a clear majority in a repeat general election in November, so they could tackle the country's economic and political challenges. Sanchez late on Tuesday announced that Spain would return to the...

Russia on Wednesday accused the US and Syrian rebels of blocking the evacuation of a refugee camp in southern Syria, where the UN has described conditions as "critical". The Russian army called the isolated Rukban camp in a US-controlled desert near the Jordanian border a "death camp"....

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Wednesday that a planned "safe zone" in northern Syria could host 2-3 million Syrian refugees that have settled in Turkey and Europe after eight years of war at home. Addressing academics in Ankara, Erdogan also repeated that Ankara would act on its...

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday Tehran did not want conflict in the region and accused the United States and the Arab coalition of starting a war in Yemen, according to Iranian news agencies. "We don't want conflict in the region ... Who started the conflict? Not the Yemenis....