ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece will continue its bilateral efforts to secure the release of two Greek soldiers detained in Turkey but is also counting on the support of its European allies, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Friday. The soldiers’ case has heightened tension between Greece...

Days after Turkish forces captured Afrin, hundreds of people gathered at a cinema in Istanbul this week for the premiere of a film about commandos battling militants in the Syrian town. “Maroon Berets 2: Afrin” follows a Turkish commando unit trying to retrieve a warhead from militants in...

Turkey said Friday that it is continuing talks with the U.S. over buying Patriot missile systems. “I can say that our discussions with the U.S. regarding Patriot missile system are continuing,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Hami Aksoy told a news conference in the capital Ankara, while...

The Gaza Strip’s Hamas-run Interior Ministry says it has “clear evidence” implicating the perpetrators of a failed assassination attempt on Palestinian Prime Minister Rami al-Hamdallah.   “We have documented evidence -- including video and audio -- that will soon be produced in...

Following a deadly hostage standoff at a supermarket, a gunman in southern France was killed by security forces, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb said on Friday. "The hostage-taker was shot," Collomb told a press conference in the town of Trebes, in the Aude department, at the scene of...

The U.S. plan to impose tariffs on Chinese imports and China's planned reciprocal tariffs would have a limited effect on Moody's rated Chinese companies, said the ratings agency on Friday. The impact on Moody's rated Chinese firms would be manageable, as most of them rely heavily on...

In the Egyptian village of Abu Shosha, far south of Cairo, residents hit hard by economic hardships are planning to vote for President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi in elections starting Monday. "We only began to feel safe after Sisi" became president and boosted security, Tarek Mohamed Hafez, a...

A combative Donald Trump threatened Friday to veto a spending deal clinched in a dead-of-night compromise in Congress, in a dramatic U-turn by the president that raises the fresh specter of a government shutdown. The president brandished the threat in a tweet after the Senate passed the...

Europe will not negotiate trade deals with a gun to the head, French leader Emmanuel Macron said Friday, reacting to U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to grant the European Union a 40-day exemption on metal tariffs pending further talks. "We will talk about anything as a principal...

 Syrian rebels agreed to surrender a second besieged enclave in eastern Ghouta Friday, state television reported, as their comrades in another insurgent pocket in the area continued their withdrawal after a month-long assault by the army. Capturing eastern Ghouta, near the capital...

An official says in says 12 people have been killed and 40 others wounded in a car bombing outside a sports stadium in Afghanistan's Helmand province. Aminullah Abed, the chief of the province's public health department, in Helmand province said the 12 killed and 40 wounded were...

Britain called on Israel to improve the treatment of Palestinian children in military detention Friday and said Israel should do more to safeguard vulnerable people in its care. The Foreign Office issued a statement in the wake of the sentencing of Palestinian teenage girl Ahed Tamimi,...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Union is planning to apply tougher consumer laws to social media networks and email providers like Facebook (FB.O) and Google’s Gmail (GOOGL.O) as scrutiny of data protection grows in the wake of an outcry over Facebook’s handling of data. Under the...

At least four Iraqi soldiers were killed Friday when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb in Iraq’s eastern Diyala province, according to a local police source. “An army patrol vehicle struck a roadside bomb this morning as it passed through Diyala’s Nada Basin area, killing four army...

Prime Minister Binali Yildirim on Friday announced the lifting of a flight ban to northern Iraq's Erbil city. Speaking to media in capital Ankara, Yildirim said: "We had closed down our airspace following northern Iraq's referendum. We are opening our airspace as of today." An...

Police SWAT teams on Friday surrounded a supermarket in the town of Trebes, southern France, where at least one gunman is holding several people hostage. The entire area is in lockdown, in what Prime Minister Edouard Philippe, in Paris, described as a "serious situation."...

A Spanish Supreme Court judge on Friday charged 13 Catalan separatist politicians, including fugitive former regional president Carles Puigdemont, with rebellion for their attempt to declare independence from Spain. Judge Pablo Llarena's indictment wrapped up the investigation into the...

 Egypt opened its largely sealed border with the Gaza Strip on Friday for two days, Palestinian authorities said. In just the third such opening this year, the crossing between the Palestinian enclave and Egypt's Sinai region will be open Friday and Saturday for humanitarian cases,...

A man holding hostages in a supermarket in southwestern France has claimed allegiance to Daesh (ISIS), BFM TV said. Europe 1 radio also said an individual was holding hostages in the supermarket. Earlier, France's Interior Ministry had said security officials were carrying out...

Air France crew went on strike Friday, forcing the cancellation of about a quarter of the airline's flights as unions discussed further protests against reformist President Emmanuel Macron. Pilots, cabin crew and ground staff joined the strike at Air France to push for a 6.0-percent...