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U.S. military vehicles pulled out of Syria on Monday — and were pummeled with what appeared to be rocks and rotting food in the process.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday said efforts to end a trade war with China were going well as the world’s two largest economies continued to battle over trade and politics across the world despite heralding a long-awaited truce this month.
JERUSALEM — Benjamin Netanyahu gave up his effort to form a new government on Monday after failing to secure a majority coalition, creating an opportunity for centrist rival Benny Gantz to replace Israel’s longest serving prime minister.
WASHINGTON — House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other senior members of Congress made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan on Sunday, her office said. Pelosi, who traveled to Afghanistan after a stop in Jordan on Saturday, met President Ashraf Ghani and visiting U.S. Defense Se…
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WASHINGTON — Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has been one of the most vocal critics of President Donald Trump’s decision to move U.S. troops out of northeastern Syria, said on Sunday he now believed “historic solutions” were possible.
MADRID — Sheep replaced traffic on the streets of Madrid on Sunday as shepherds steered their flocks through the heart of the Spanish capital, following ancient migration routes.
ABOARD A U.S. MILITARY AIRCRAFT — Defense Secretary Mark Esper said Saturday that all of the nearly 1,000 troops withdrawing from northern Syria are expected to move to western Iraq to continue the campaign against Islamic State militants and “to help defend Iraq.”
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has often said things he perhaps shouldn’t have and repeatedly has disclosed sensitive information as President. On Wednesday, he did it again, appearing to confirm that the United States has nuclear weapons in Turkey.
WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives Wednesday adopted a resolution in an overwhelming bipartisan vote that rebuked President Donald Trump’s move to pull U.S. troops out of northern Syria — a decision announced Oct. 6 that has found few defenders on Capitol Hill. The vote was 354 to 60 …
PARIS — A Paris zoo showcased a mysterious new organism on Wednesday, dubbed the “blob,” a yellowish unicellular small living being which looks like a fungus but acts like an animal.
RUINERWOLD — A man who paid the rent on a Dutch farmhouse where six members of a family were found locked away in a secret room will appear in court on Thursday on charges of unlawful detention and harming others’ health, prosecutors said.
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The Republican and Democratic leaders of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, as well as the congressional foreign affairs and armed services committees, are to meet with President Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday to discuss the situation in Syria, congressional aides sa…
The Turkish troops who poured into Syria to battle Kurdish fighters abandoned by the U.S. may have inadvertently handed Russian President Vladimir Putin a strategic victory in the Middle East.
Hunter Biden, the son of former vice president and Democratic 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden, said his service on a Ukraine gas company board was proper but may have been a bad idea in hindsight.
Her appeal was in regards to a conviction of unlawful procurement of citizenship.
MEXICO CITY — At least 14 police officers were killed in an ambush in the western Mexican state of Michoacan on Monday, a reflection of the intensifying violence between security forces and criminal groups in one of the country’s most volatile regions.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Monday demanded Turkey stop its military incursion into Syria and imposed new sanctions on the NATO ally as Trump scrambled to limit the damage from his much-criticized decision to clear U.S. troops from Turkey’s path.
BEIRUT/ANKARA/WASHINGTON — Russian-backed Syrian forces took rapid advantage of an abrupt U.S. retreat from Syria on Monday, deploying deep inside Kurdish-held territory south of the Turkish frontier less than 24 hours after Washington announced a full withdrawal.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former Russia adviser testified on Monday behind closed doors as the latest witness summoned in the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry against Trump over his request that Ukraine investigate a domestic political rival.
VATICAN CITY — Some saints wear halos, other saints wear football helmets.
WASHINGTON — The United States is poised to move about 1,000 troops from northern Syria amid an ongoing Turkish incursion into the region, Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Sunday, calling the situation “untenable” for U.S. forces.
ANKARA — Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday dismissed reports that Islamic State prisoners in northeastern Syria had escaped as a result of Turkey’s offensive in the region, saying they were “disinformation” aimed at provoking the West.
TOKYO — Japan dispatched tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers Sunday after a typhoon unleashed widespread flooding and left 35 people dead and 17 missing.
WASHINGTON — The U.S. military is taking custody of several dozen high-value Islamic State detainees, including two British men accused of involvement in the militant group’s summary executions of American and other Western hostages, including New Hampshire journalist James Foley.
AKCAKALE, Turkey -- Turkey launched a military operation against Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria on Wednesday just days after U.S. troops pulled back from the area, with air strikes and artillery hitting YPG militia positions around the border town of Ras al Ain.
ISTANBUL — Turkey’s government launched a long-expected offensive into northeastern Syria on Wednesday, with airstrikes and shelling targeting Syrian Kurdish fighters who have played a central role in aiding the U.S.-led battle against the Islamic State militant group.
Squirreling away supplies for winter took on a whole new meaning for a couple after they discovered a hoodful of walnuts and grass in their car.
LONDON — The parents of a British teenager who police say was killed in a wrong-way collision involving the wife of a U.S. diplomat said Tuesday in a televised interview that they are willing to travel to the United States to get justice for their son, Harry Dunn.
BANGKOK — Five wild elephants in Thailand died in a plunge from the top of a waterfall, drone footage released on Tuesday showed, bringing the death toll to 11, including a three-year-old calf.
LOS ANGELES/SHANGHAI -- The creators of satirical animated series "South Park" issued a mocking "apology" to China after media reports that episodes of the show were no longer available on some Chinese websites.
BALTIMORE — The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday to three physician-scientists from the United States and Britain — William G. Kaelin Jr., Peter J. Ratcliffe and Gregg L. Semenza — “for their discoveries of how cells sense and adapt to oxygen availability.”
WASHINGTON — The United States began withdrawing American troops from Syria’s border with Turkey early Monday, in the clearest sign yet that the Trump administration was washing its hands of an explosive situation between the Turkish military and U.S.-allied Kurdish fighters.
WASHINGTON — In a rare show of bipartisanship, the top lawmakers in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate on Monday condemned President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw U.S. troops from northeastern Syria, which could open the way for a Turkish strike on Kurdish-led fighters in the area.
BAGHDAD — Protesters began gathering in Baghdad’s Sadr City district late on Monday after overnight clashes with security forces spread to the vast, poor swath of the Iraqi capital for the first time killing 15 people.
Ginger Baker, the prodigiously talented and volcanically temperamental rock drummer who helped form Cream, rock ‘n’ roll’s first supergroup, and inspired awe and imitation in a generation of drummers, died on Oct. 6. He was 80.
STOCKHOLM — Working-level nuclear talks in Sweden between officials from Pyongyang and Washington have broken off, North Korea’s top negotiator said late on Saturday, dashing prospects for an end to months of stalemate.
LA PAZ — Bolivia´s “Death Road” might seem an odd place for a septuagenarian grandmother on two wheels.
BAGO, Myanmar -- Baby elephant Ayeyar Sein trumpets impatiently as a vet prepares her milk bottle and walks cautiously, her front left leg in a splint made of bamboo and cloth bandages.
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