WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton will discuss arms control treaties and Iran’s role in Syria in talks with Russian counterpart Nikolai Patrushev in Geneva next week, an administration official

LALISH: A young Yazidi woman who fled to Germany but returned home to northern Iraq says she cannot escape her Daesh captor who held her as a sex slave for three months.Ashwaq Hajji, 19,

ISTANBUL: Turkey’s battered lira weakened 5 percent on Friday after a Turkish court rejected a US Christian pastor’s appeal for release, a day after the US warned of further sanctions unless Ankara hands over

As the world focuses on the crisis facing Turkey's lira, the Turkish part of Cyprus faces an arguably worse situation that is not of its own making. The self-declared Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus

Ashraf Ghani, Afghanistan's president, has visited the embattled southeastern city of Ghazni, a week after the Taliban launched an attack and infiltrated deep into the key provincial capital. The five-day battle with the Taliban in

Malaysia's Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad is in Beijing on his first trip to China, since winning May's election. He recently said he wants to cancel or renegotiate some of the deals struck between his

Greeks overseas are raising hundreds of thousands of dollars to help victims of fires that swept through resorts east of Athens last month. Prosecutors have launched an inquiry into why 96 people were killed.

The Asian Games are the world's second-largest sports event after the Olympics, with 14,000 athletes taking part from 45 Asian countries. Those athletes will take part in 462 medal events across 47 sports. Jakarta

(CNN)Here's a look at the life of actor and philanthropist Sean Connery. He is perhaps best known for playing Agent 007, James Bond, in seven films.Personal:Birth date: August 25, 1930Birth place: Edinburgh, Scotland

(CNN)The bomb used by the Saudi-led coalition in a devastating attack on a school bus in Yemen was sold as part of a US State Department-sanctioned arms deal with Saudi Arabia, munitions experts told