COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lankan protesters began to retreat from government buildings they seized and military troops reinforced security at the Parliament on Thursday, establishing a tenuous calm in a country in both economic meltdown and political limbo. Embattled President Gotabaya...

Joe Biden opened his first visit to the Mideast as president on Wednesday by declaring a “bone deep” bond between the United States and Israel and pledging to strengthen economic connections between the two countries going forward. He did not mention one of the larger goals of his visit:...

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are slipping in shaky trading on Wall Street Wednesday after a highly anticipated report on inflation turned out to be even worse than expected. The S&P 500 was 0.3% lower after tumbling as much as 1.6% earlier in the morning. The Dow Jones Industrial Average was...

Unidentified gunmen assassinated two collaborators with Military Security in southern Daraa province, which witnesses a continuation of assassinations, the frequency of which increased after the regime took control of the province in the summer of 2018, activists said on Wednesday. No group...