(Reuters) - Six men held for more than a decade at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba , were flown to Uruguay for resettlement on Sunday, the latest step in a slow-moving push by President Barack Obama's administration to close the facility. The release of four...

(Reuters) - The European Union will press Turkey to cooperate more closely in the fight against Islamic State and urge it not to undermine EU sanctions on Russia on a visit this week intended to give new impetus to often fraught EU-Turkish relations. EU foreign policy chief...

(Reuters) - An Egyptian court has sentenced to death seven men, including prominent Islamist militant Adel Habara, over the killing of 25 policemen last year in an attack near the border with Israel , judicial sources said on Saturday. The attack took place in August 2013...

President Barack Obama on Friday officially named former deputy defense secretary Ashton Carter as his pick to lead the U.S. military. Obama said Carter is “rightly regarded as one of our nation’s foremost national security leaders” during an...