ANKARA Turkey’s annual consumer price inflation rate has declined in August, official data from the Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) revealed on Monday. The annual inflation rate was 8.05 percent in August compared to 8.79 percent in July, significantly better than median...

A series of bomb blasts targeted government-held areas of Syria on Monday, killing at least five people, state media in Damascus said. At least five people were killed on Monday in a double bombing in Syria's government-held Tartus province, state television said. "Two terrorist blasts on...

Five explosions hit government-controlled areas and a city held by a Kurdish militia in Syria on Monday morning, killing several people, state media and a monitor said. It was not immediately clear if there was any link between the blasts reported in the state-held cities of Tartous and...

(Reuters) - North Korea fired three ballistic missiles into the sea off its east coast on Monday, South Korea's military said, as the leaders of the Group of 20 major economies held a summit in China, the North's main diplomatic ally. The missiles were fired from a region south of...