Following a failed coup against Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the government moved swiftly Sunday to shore up his power and remove those perceived as an enemy, saying it has detained 6,000 people.
After inflicting heavy losses on weakened Afghan security forces a year ago, the Taliban under new leadership have been surprisingly slow to ramp up attacks at the midpoint of the traditional fighting season, senior American military officers said Sunday.
France's interior minister says investigators have no evidence so far that the truck driver who killed 84 people in Nice had links to "terrorist networks." Bernard Cazeneuve said Monday on RTL radio that while the Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for the Bastille Day attack, the driver may have been motivated by IS messages but not necessarily coordinating with a larger network.
New British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson, who recently likened the European Union to Adolf Hitler's vision for Europe, is in Brussels to meet with his new EU colleagues, and says he hopes to cooperate closely.
A powerful Iraqi Shiite cleric says the additional 560 U.S. troops to be sent to Iraq to upgrade an air base recently retaken from the Islamic State group would be a "target" for his supporters.
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has announced only minor changes to his new Cabinet after two of his key ministers lost their seats in elections this month.
Syrian government forces closed the only road leading into and out of rebel-held parts of the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, besieging hundreds of thousands of people and giving President Bashar Assad's forces one of their biggest successes since the five-year conflict began.
The Philippines' crime-fighting president says he plans to ask Chinese officials why some Chinese citizens who visit his country are involved in illegal drugs.
China says it is closing off a part of the South China Sea for military exercises this week, days after the Hague-based Permanent Court of Arbitration ruled against Beijing's claim to ownership of virtually the entire strategic waterway.
He had a ringside seat for the entire, bloody rise of ISIS, and by his own count killed dozens of innocent men, women and children. Now Thahir Sahab Jamel disavows the black-clad Islamist army, but his Kurdish jailors say they’ve heard it all before.
A senior South Korean prosecutor has been arrested for allegedly pocketing millions of dollars following shady stock transaction deals with a leading online game maker.
The Asian Development Bank has cut its 2016 growth projection for developing economies in Asia and the Pacific to 5.6 percent, down from its earlier forecast of 5.7 percent, but says their solid performances will help offset softness from the U.S. economy and near-term market shocks from Britain's vote to exit from the European Union.
China's official news agency says the government has fired three officials after a strong tropical storm killed 83 people and left 19 others missing as it battered the country's eastern coast.
