Moderate Kurdish candidate Barham Saleh swept to the post of president of Iraq Tuesday evening in a parliamentary vote pitting Kurdish heavyweights against each other for the first time following an ill-fated independence referendum. Saleh routed his main rival Fuad Hussein with 219...

The World Health Organization said Tuesday it was helping Yemeni authorities with a second round of vaccination against cholera in three hard-hit districts, as cases surged across the war-ravaged country. More than 2,500 people have died of the waterborne infection since the worst...

Germany will next year end its reconnaissance and air-to-air refueling missions that are part of U.S.-led operations against Daesh (ISIS) in Iraq and Syria, the government decided Tuesday, a document seen by Reuters showed. Germany, whose Nazi past makes military action a sensitive...

Canada's Justin Trudeau Monday hailed a new continental trade pact with the United States and Mexico as "profoundly beneficial" for Canadians -- but the prime minister must now sell the deal to skeptical dairy farmers, unions and voters. The 11th-hour deal was reached late Sunday after...