U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday he believed that, with effort and good faith on both sides, it would be possible to implement the Minsk agreements on Ukraine in coming months to allow for a lifting of sanctions on Russia. In a speech to the World Economic Forum in Davos,...

The United State's main concern with North Korea is its nuclear program, the U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said Friday, adding that American officials are eyeing the Korean peninsula daily. "The biggest worry about North Korea has been – other than its sort of strange and isolated...

A senior Syrian opposition official Friday ruled out even indirect peace talks with the government before a halt to Russian airstrikes and the lifting of government blockades on populated areas. George Sabra, deputy head of the opposition delegation, also said the opposition council he...

Syrian Kurds must be represented at peace talks in Geneva or they will fail, a Syrian Kurdish leader said Friday, adding that one of the opposition groups involved, Jaysh al-Islam, had the "same mentality" as al Qaeda and ISIS. "If there are some parties that are effective in this Syria issue...