North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has called a rare congress of the ruling Workers' Party for January to address policy "shortcomings" and lay out a new five-year plan for the isolated nation's moribund economy. Kim made the announcement at a full meeting of the party's central committee on...

The UN special envoy for Syria announced Wednesday that the 45-member committee charged with drafting a new constitution for the conflict-torn country will meet for the first time in nine months on Aug. 24. Geir Pedersen told the Security Council that convening the UN-facilitated,...

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed Wednesday not to yield to "pirates" and to continue searching for energy in disputed eastern Mediterranean waters despite EU pressure to stop. Long-held tensions in the region flared when Turkey last week sent a research vessel accompanied by...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pledged Wednesday that the Trump administration will continue to support Iraq as it confronts the threat posed by the Islamic State group, but he also called for the Baghdad government to redouble efforts to rein in pro-Iran militias. Pompeo said the United...