Prosecutors Monday launched an investigation into a Turkish medical association after President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reacted angrily to a statement denouncing Ankara's military operation against a Syrian Kurdish militia. Turkey launched a cross-border offensive dubbed "Olive...

MOSCOW/Donetsk, Ukraine (Reuters) - In the fall of 2015, pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine were introduced to a moustachioed new commander who, like his predecessors, went by the codename Tuman - “fog” in Russian. Also like his predecessors, he appeared to be a Russian national....

At least 12 civilians were killed and 16 others injured in two airstrikes in Idlib province in northern Syria on Monday, according to an official with the White Helmets civil-defense agency.  A Russian warplane struck a marketplace in Saraqib city in the province, White Helmets...

A teenage mother who let her baby starve to death so she could party with friends has been jailed for just six and a half years. Viktoria Kuznetsova, 17, from Rostov, Russia, sat emotionless as her sentence was read out in court. The court was told that Kuznetsova had been planning...