Turkey has agreed to a five-day suspention of its military operation in northeast Syria to allow for withdrawal of Kurdish forces, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence said on Thursday after talks with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan. "Today the United States and Turkey have agreed to a...

 A key Republican ally of Donald Trump was to introduce tough sanctions against Turkey in the U.S. Senate Thursday, joining Democratic lawmakers in a sign of the bipartisan fury sparked by the president's abrupt decision to pull American troops out of Syria. The Turkey Sanctions Bill...

Venezuela is vying for a seat on UN Human Rights Council Thursday over opposition from advocacy groups and fellow Latin American countries as the General Assembly chooses 14 new members of the panel. The Geneva-based council works to promote and protect human rights around the world. It has...

The president of Spain's protest-hit Catalonia region pledged Thursday to push for a new vote on secession, despite the fallout from a failed 2017 independence bid that sparked the country's worst political crisis in decades. "If they condemn us to 100 years of prison for putting out the...