President Obama hoped to seize control of the news cycle Monday. Instead,  events overtook him  and his message again. As reports broke of a deadly shooting rampage at the Navy Yard, three miles from the White House, the president was forced to alter his script. Over the past three...

    It’s far from what the Turks had in mind. In late 2009, at the height of its detente with  Syria , the Ankara government of  Recep Tayyip Erdogan  lifted visa requirements for Syrian nationals and floated plans for future energy cooperation,...

The remnants of Hurricane Ingrid and Tropical Storm Manuel drenched northeastern and southwestern Mexico with torrential rains Monday, flooding towns and cities, cutting highways and setting off landslides in a national emergency that federal authorities said had caused at least 34 deaths....

The United Nations on Monday revealed what it called "chilling" details of a sarin gas attack in Syria, leaving the major powers to battle over who was responsible. UN chief Ban Ki-moon condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria as "a war crime" as the country's conflict again spilled...