Nigeria's security forces stopped lawmakers from entering parliament on Tuesday, but the presidency condemned the blockade and the acting president fired the head of the security agency. It is the first such incident since Nigeria became a democracy in 1999 and coincides with increased...

U.S. President Donald Trump’s top security adviser Monday urged Iran to take up an offer of talks with the United States or suffer more pain from economic sanctions, but Iran’s president said Washington needed first to prove it can be trusted. Hours before revived U.S. sanctions...

Senior Iranian officials Tuesday rejected U.S. President Donald Trump’s offer of talks without preconditions as worthless and “a humiliation” after he acted to reimpose sanctions on Tehran following his withdrawal from a landmark nuclear deal. Separately, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani...

Claims that Aleppo, Syria’s second largest city, among other central cities, will be under Turkey’s control have arisen. Before Syria was ravaged by war, Aleppo hosted a population of 5.5 million people, but 75 percent of the city was emptied in 2013 after the opposition left. Once under...