Whether Beijing and Washington reach a trade deal or not, China is already speeding up efforts to break its reliance on a country that is one of its biggest economic partners but also its biggest adversary. The effort has gained greater urgency for Beijing after more than a year and a half...

Polls opened in Algeria Thursday in a presidential election bitterly opposed by a protest movement that sees it as a regime ploy to cling on to power. All 61,000 polling stations around the North African country opened as planned at 8 am (0700 GMT), the official APS news agency said. No...

A U.S. Senate committee backed legislation on Wednesday to impose sanctions on Turkey after its offensive in northern Syria and plans to buy a Russian S-400 missile system, the latest move in the chamber to push Republican President Donald Trump to take a harder line against Ankara. The...

Sending ground troops to Libya is not currently on Turkey's foreign policy agenda, but the country might consider to do so if the UN-recognized Libyan government makes such a request, according to Turkish foreign minister. "At the moment, as no such request was made, we don't have a plan of...