A blast killed six regime army soldiers in Daraa province Wednesday in a rare, deadly attack in the defeated cradle of the eight-year uprising, a monitoring group said. "The explosive device was aimed at a convoy transporting members of the Fourth Division" in the southern province of...

International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde submitted her resignation from the global crisis lender Tuesday, citing more clarity about her nomination to lead the European Central Bank as European legislators approved a new top bureaucrat. Lagarde said in a statement her resignation was...

The EU Tuesday threatened to expand sanctions against Venezuela unless talks between the government and opposition lead to "concrete results", and warned President Nicolas Maduro's regime to end human rights abuses. The European Union, which has sought to help resolve Venezuela's political...

The European Commission's top civil servant Martin Selmayr, whose sudden promotion to that post last year angered EU lawmakers and earned a rebuke from the European Ombudsman, will step down next week, a Commission spokeswoman said Tuesday. Secretary-General Selmayr, a frank-speaking German...