A U.S. Senate vote to extend the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) for 10 years shows the world that Washington cannot be relied upon to act on its commitments, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday. Iran has vowed to retaliate against the ISA extension, passed unanimously on...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump told Philippine leader Rodrigo Duterte that Manila was conducting its deadly drug war "the right way," Duterte said Saturday, in stark contrast to the criticism he received from President Barack Obama. The Philippine president called Trump late Friday...

All along the street, houses have been reduced to rubble in the central Iraqi city of Kirkuk. The work of Kurdish security forces retaliating against Sunni Arabs after a recent ISIS, residents say. Kurdish security forces moved in with bulldozers and excavators and demolished at least 100...

Syrian troops and allied forces advanced overnight seizing Aleppo's Tariq al-Bab neighborhood from rebels as they press an offensive to recapture all of the city, activists said Saturday. The capture of the neighborhood means the government has now retaken around 60 percent of the east of...