The United States is "deeply concerned" by Turkish airstrikes targeting Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria, the State Department said Tuesday. "We are very concerned, deeply concerned that Turkey conducted airstrikes earlier today in northern Syria as well as northern Iraq without proper...

Tunisia's parliament voted Tuesday to ease the country's harsh law on drugs, in a move that could see offenders like youths caught smoking marijuana escape jail terms. The North African country has faced mounting calls from rights groups and civil society to reform the law. Tuesday's...

 Palestinian leaders Tuesday said Britain had rejected their request for an apology for a 1917 declaration that helped pave the way to the state of Israel, adding that they would pursue international court action unless London backtracked. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called for...

The Taliban overran three security checkpoints in Afghanistan's northern Takhar province, killing eight policemen and cutting off a key road and two of the region's districts, an Afghan official said on Tuesday. According to Sunatullah Timor, the provincial spokesman, the attack, which took...