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December 25, 2018

Turkey 'determined' to drive out Syrian Kurdish forces

Turkey said Tuesday it is working with the United States to coordinate the withdrawal of American forces but remains "determined" to clear U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters from northeastern Syria.

December 25, 2018

US, others express concern about violence in Sudan

The United States, Britain, Norway and Canada say they are concerned by "credible reports" that Sudan's security forces have used live ammunition against demonstrators demanding that President Omar Bashir step down.

December 24, 2018

Mexico: Helicopter crash claims Puebla governor, ex-governor

A husband-and-wife political power couple who were the current and ex-governors of the central Mexican state of Puebla died in a Christmas Eve helicopter crash, officials announced.

December 24, 2018

Mexican governor, senator killed in helicopter crash

The newly elected governor of Mexico's Puebla state and her husband, a federal senator and former governor of the state, were killed Monday in a helicopter crash.

December 24, 2018

Russian envoy: Bad relations with US unlikely to improve

Russia's U.N. ambassador says relations between Moscow and Washington are "practically non-existent," which he says is bad not only for both countries but for the world — and he sees little prospect for improvement anytime soon.

December 24, 2018

Official: 29 killed in hours-long brazen attack Kabul

A brazen hours-long coordinated assault on a government building in the Afghan capital of Kabul on Monday killed 29 people, most of them employees of the department for martyrs and disabled persons, said Interior Ministry spokesman Najib Danish.

December 24, 2018

Turkey-backed Syrian fighters prepare to replace US forces

Turkish-backed Syrian fighters are preparing to deploy in eastern Syria alongside Turkish troops once American forces withdraw, a spokesman said Monday, adding that his forces have begun massing on the front line of a town held by Kurdish-led forces.

December 24, 2018

Land mines will be hidden killer in Yemen decades after war

They lurk under shifting desert sands, amid the debris of urban roadsides and inside abandoned schools, some set to go off at the lightest touch.

December 24, 2018

'Like a cancer:' Rio militias grow, control swaths of city

The latest scheme works like this: Brazilian paramilitary groups buy boxes of cigarettes in neighboring Paraguay for 14 cents a pack and then smuggle them back home, where prices and taxes are much higher, and sell them for up to $2.15.

December 23, 2018

Family of blind Michigan woman missing in Peru holds vigil

The brother of a legally blind community leader and social worker from Detroit is desperately searching for his sister who vanished last Wednesday in Peru.