Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim Wednesday said he hoped Rex Tillerson’s exit as secretary of state would improve relations between the U.S. and Turkey. Speaking to the media in Ankara before leaving for Baku, Azerbaijan Binali Yildirim said: “Whoever comes in, Turkey’s stance is...

Russia is behind recent tensions between the U.S. and Turkey, with Moscow’s role in Syria impacting relations between the two NATO allies, a high-ranking general said Tuesday. Speaking during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing, Gen. Joseph Votel said Russian support of Syria’s...

The EU's foreign policy chief on Tuesday called on the Bashar al-Assad regime to stop attacks on Syria’s Eastern Ghouta enclave completely. Speaking at the European Parliament’s General Assembly meeting, Federica Mogherini pointed out that a proposal by Russia for a five-hour daily...

Three men were arrested Tuesday and charged in the bombing last year of a mosque in a Minneapolis suburb. In a written statement, the U.S. attorney's office in Springfield said the men -- identified as Michael B. Hari, 47, Joe Morris, 22, and Michael McWhorter, 29 -- also face charges...

Over 5 million people in Sudan need humanitarian assistance and nearly 2.5 million children there get sick every year due to acute malnutrition, a UN agency said Tuesday. The number of people in need in Sudan rose by 700,000 compared to last year to 5.5 million. Natural disasters such...

Candidates of Sierra Leone’s ruling and main opposition parties are heading for a presidential runoff after March 7 elections failed to produce a first-round winner. Chief electoral commissioner Mohamed N’Fah Alie Conteh said Tuesday that opposition candidate and former military junta leader...

Scientist Stephen Hawking died at the age of 76 in the early hours of Wednesday, said a spokesman for his family. His family later released a statement confirming his death at his home in Cambridge. "We are deeply saddened that our beloved father passed away today. He was a...

MOSCOW (Reuters)- Soon after Vladimir Putin is re-elected Sunday, his thoughts will turn to the question that is likely to dominate his next term as Russia’s president: what will he do when it ends? Putin’s victory in the presidential election is not in doubt as his ratings are high and he has...

MOSCOW (AFP) -  Russia on Tuesday slammed Britain's accusations of involvement in the poisoning of a former double agent as an attempt to discredit Moscow and demanded that London give it access to the nerve agent. The Russian foreign ministry summoned the British ambassador to a...

A decade after the Pentagon began confronting rape in the ranks, the U.S. military frequently fails to protect or provide justice to the children of service members when they are sexually assaulted by other children on base, an Associated Press investigation has found. Reports of assaults and...

Assad regime forces killed five civilians and injured 15 on Tuesday in the opposition-held Idlib province, one of Syria’s de-escalation zones where attacks are prohibited, and the number of casualties may rise, the Syrian Civil Defense said. Mustafa Haj Yusuf, head of the Syrian Civil...

Afrin city center in northwestern Syria has been surrounded since Monday as part of Turkey-led Operation Olive Branch, Turkish Armed Forces said Tuesday. In a written statement, the Turkish General Staff said the center of Afrin has been surrounded since March 12 and "critically...

TEHRAN (AFP)- Iran Tuesday jailed Hamid Baghai, a vice president under former hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, following his conviction for corruption, media reports said. "Police officers apprehended and transferred the convict to prison," the Tehran prosecutor's office said, cited by...

   Syrian regime jets resumed strikes on several rebel-held towns in southern Daraa province Tuesday, rebels said, a day after Washington warned that such bombing would violate a U.S.-Russian "de-escalation zone". Two rebel sources said jets bombed the towns of Hrak, Busr al...

LONDON (AFP)- A former senior Russian executive linked to late Kremlin opponent Boris Berezovsky has been found dead in London in unexplained circumstances, British and Russian media reported Tuesday. Nikolai Glushkov's death comes amid heightened concern following a nerve agent attack...

NEW YORK (reuters)- A U.S. citizen was sentenced to 45 years in prison Tuesday for supporting the militant group Al-Qaeda and helping to prepare a 2009 car bomb attack on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan, less than the life sentence sought by prosecutors. Muhanad Mahmoud Al-Farekh,...

Syrian regime army evacuated several hundred fighters from a small pocket they had held for years south of Damascus Tuesday and bussed them to the north of the country, a monitor said. The Syrian Arab Red Crescent confirmed the evacuation from the district of Qadam. AFP's correspondent...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- A well-informed source said Iran had removed its drones from the T-4 military airbase to Palmyra airbase two weeks after the Israeli airstrikes last February. Geographically, the both bases are located in the Syrian desert, also known as Badiya, but the move by...

WASHINGTON (AFP)- Outgoing US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson did not speak to President Donald Trump before he was sacked Tuesday and has not been given a reason for his ouster, a top aide said. "The secretary did not speak to the president this morning and is unaware of the reason,...

 (Zaman Al Wasl)- Civil Defense rescuing group said Tuesday they had pulled out eight civilians, including seven from the same family, from under the rubble in Zamalka town as aerial bombing stepped up on Eastern Ghouta suburbs. The Assad regime and key ally Russia have been...