Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday unexpectedly dismissed his close ally and powerful chief of staff Sergei Ivanov, in the highest-

Turkey said yesterday it has received "positive signals" from the United States over its requests to extradite

Turkey has issued an arrest warrant for its former international football star striker Hakan Sukur as it probes last month's failed coup aimed at unseating President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.

Ecuador says it will let Swedish officials interview Julian Assange at its embassy in London, where the WikiLeaks

Vladimir Putin yesterday summoned his security council and the Russian Navy announced war games in the Black Sea, a day

German citizens with dual nationality who fight for a terror group should be stripped of their German citizenship,

A new computer game created by a team of 15 people in a shed in southern England makes its highly anticipated debut this week after creating buzz for conjuring a mind-bogglingly large universe of 18 quintillion planets for players to explore.

A year after hundreds of thousands of refugees snaked their way across southeastern Europe and onto global television

A Turkish senior military officer on a US-based assignment for Nato is seeking asylum in the United States after being recalled

Russian President Vladimir Putin yesterday accused Ukraine of waging "terror" over alleged attempted incursions into annexed Crimea that Kiev has fiercely denied.

Turkey yesterday accused the EU of "encouraging" the plotters on the night of the July 15 coup in an escalating row

Russia's security service yesterday said it had thwarted "terrorist attacks" in Crimea by Ukrainian military intelligence

Hundreds of soldiers and rescue workers searched for the missing Monday after the remnants of Tropical Storm Earl

MH370 plunged into the ocean at high speed -- up to 20,000 feet a minute -- reinforcing analysis that the missing

A fire apparently sparked by birthday cake candles tore through a bar in northern France earlyyesterday, killing at least 13 people in the nation's deadliest blaze in a decade.

As Turkey's relations with Europe and the United States are strained by the fallout from its failed coup, President Tayyip Erdogan travels to Russia on Tuesday to meet Vladimir Putin in a trip he may hope will give the West pause for thought.

Portugal's former prime minister Antonio Guterres held the lead in the race to be the next UN secretary-general after a

Taliban militants attacked a group of 12 American and European tourists escorted by an Afghan army convoy in western Herat

Turkey issued a formal on Thursday for US-based preacher Fethullah Gulen after the July 15 coup attempt aimed at

Turkish police have raided the offices of the national science research council and detained many people, an official