Turkey’s military role in Syria is to rid the country of terrorism, presidential spokesman Ibrahim Kalin said Tuesday, adding that it had no other plans in Syria or Iraq. In an interview with Haber Turk TV, Kalin said Turkey supported the expected operation to clear Daesh from Raqqah, the...

Syrian rebels said on Tuesday they had repelled an army offensive in southern Aleppo as Russian and Syrian warplanes pounded residential areas, while nations spoke of rebuilding a peace process the United States broke off this week. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, who announced on Monday...

The fiercest Caribbean storm in almost a decade ripped into Haiti's southwestern peninsula early on Tuesday with 145 mile-per-hour (230 kph) winds and storm surges, killing at least one person and damaging homes. The eye of the violent and slow-moving Category 4 storm was hovering over the...

Intensive care wards in Yemen's hospitals are filled with emaciated children hooked up to monitors and drips - victims of food shortages that could get even worse due to a reorganization of the central bank that is worrying importers. With food ships finding it hard to get into Yemen's ports...