Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the situation in Syria's Aleppo with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin by phone for the third time in a week Wednesday and agreed on the need for a cease-fire, sources in Erdogan's office said. The sources said the two leaders agreed on...

President-elect Donald Trump announced Wednesday he would leave his business conglomerate to focus solely on the presidency. “I will be leaving my great business in total in order to fully focus on running the country in order to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!” Trump tweeted using his...

Israeli jets fired two missiles from Lebanese airspace towards the outskirts of the Syrian capital, Damascus, early on Wednesday, the official Syrian news agency said, in a strike on an unknown target that caused loud explosions. The SANA news agency said the missiles struck the Sabboura town,...

A Hungarian court jailed a Syrian man for 10 years Wednesday for allegedly inciting a border riot by migrants last year, ruling it an "act of terror" and sparking outrage from rights groups. Critics said it was "absurd" to use anti-terrorism legislation – enacted last year by hard-line...