Iraq’s firebrand Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr on Wednesday rejected a secret vote in parliament on the new cabinet lineup. “The people want to reform the system through an honest government with independent technocrats supervised by the prime minister-designate without pressure from...

Japan's government says it has received information that a man believed to be a Japanese freelance journalist captured three years ago in war-torn Syria has been freed and is now in Turkey.  Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga told a hastily arranged news conference late on...

The U.S. on Tuesday imposed sanctions on eight people who have been linked to the Taliban. In announcing the sanctions, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin specifically called out Iran, saying that Tehran was actively trying to destabilize the Afghan government by supporting the Taliban....

Greece recorded the highest general government-debt-to-GDP ratio in the euro area for the second quarter, the EU’s statistics office announced Tuesday. According to Eurostat, Greek government's gross debt stock totaled €323.4 billion ($385 billion) at the end of second quarter of...