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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan hosted the leaders of Russia and Iran in Ankara on September 16 for talks aimed at finding a lasting truce in the ruinous eight-year Syrian civil war.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is hosting his Russian and Iranian counterparts in Ankara on September 16 for their latest meeting on Syria.
Calling a recent attack on major Saudi oil facilities "unprecedented," U.S. Defense Secretary Mike Esper says the United States is working with its allies to defend the "international rules-based order that is being undermined by Iran."
The instruction of the Ukrainian language has been virtually wiped out in areas that Moscow-backed separatists control in eastern Ukraine where an armed conflict has simmered since April 2014, the Kharkiv Human Rights Protection Group (KHPG) says.
A senior intelligence official has been arrested in Canada and charged with disclosing classified information to an unspecified foreign entity.
President Donald Trump says he can now confirm that Hamza bin Laden, the son of the deceased Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden, has been killed by a military operation along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.
A British-Australian woman who is reported to be serving a 10-year prison term in Iran has been identified as Kylie Moore-Gilbert.
The Ukrainian president’s envoy for peace talks with Russia-backed separatists has stressed that Kyiv should not make unacceptable concessions to Russia.
Yemen's Huthi rebels have claimed responsibility for two drone attacks on oil facilities operated by Saudi Aramco earlier on September 14.
Facebook has apologized for blocking the personal account of Margarita Simonyan, the chief editor of the Kremlin-funded news agencies RT and Sputnik, calling it a mistake.
U.S. lawmakers have introduced a resolution calling on the Russian government to provide evidence of Paul Whelan's crimes or release the former Marine Corps veteran.
U.S. Department of Defense officials met with representatives of eight Nordic and Baltic nations this week to discuss Arctic security and cooperation as great powers like Russia and China eye the region’s natural resources and water routes.
The United States will "clearly" overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world's largest oil exporter in the next few years amid an "unprecedented" energy boom, the head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) said.
The world’s governing soccer body, FIFA, has banned a former Russian sports administrator and fan club founder from all soccer-related activities for two years after he was found guilty of discrimination.
Three volunteer battalions that for years fought for Kyiv against Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine have handed over their weapons to law enforcement.
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Following the self-immolation of an ethnic Udmurt scholar and activist in protest against Russia's language policies, Human Rights Watch (HRW) is urging the government to address the "deep-rooted problems" facing ethnic and linguistic minorities in the country.
A Ukrainian national has pleaded guilty to hacking and wire-fraud charges in Seattle in what the FBI says is one of the largest cybercrime cases it has handled, the AP news agency reported.
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