The co-pilot of a missing Malaysian jetliner spoke the last words heard from the cockpit, the airline's chief executive said on Monday, as investigators consider suicide by the captain or first officer as one possible explanation for the disappearance. No trace of Malaysia ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday recognizing Ukraine's Crimea region as a “sovereign and independent country,” just hours after the strategic Black Sea peninsula declared it had broken away from Ukraine. The moves triggered the toughest Western sanctions...

“A unit of the armed forces released Monday 48 kidnapped civilians and military members, including officers, in al-Tabqeh area in Raqqa province,” Assad’s news agency (SANA) reported. The release operation was a result of a...