Turkey is planning to start negotiations with Syria to delineate maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea, Transportation and Infrastructure Minister Abdulkadir Uraloglu said.

Refrigerated trucks would come nearly every day to dump the bodies in this barren field just outside the Syrian capital, witnesses said.

The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces say they have launched a counter-offensive against the Ankara-backed Syrian National Army to take back areas near Syria’s northern border with Turkey. The SDF is Washington’s critical ally in Syria.

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba says strengthening his country’s alliance with the United States is key to regional security and expressed his desire to meet with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump. 

The United States and the United Kingdom have expressed deep concern over the recent handing down of convictions by Pakistani military courts to 25 civilian supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan over last year’s riots. 

Art Evans, an actor best known for his roles in “Die Hard 2,” “Fright Night,” “A Soldier’s Story” and more, has died. He was 82.

A powerful government panel has failed to reach consensus on the possible national security risks of a nearly $15 billion proposed deal for Nippon Steel of Japan to purchase U.S. Steel. 

China said a plan by the Philippines to deploy midrange missiles would be a provocative move that stokes regional tensions.

South Korea’s main opposition party said Tuesday it will seek to impeach acting leader Han Duck-soo after he missed an opposition-set deadline to approve independent investigations into impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife. 

The U.S. House of Representatives will decide Jan. 3 whether to reelect Speaker Mike Johnson to the top GOP job after he faced a contentious vote to avert a government shutdown at the last-minute last week, leaving some Republicans skeptical of his prospects heading into the vote.

President Joe Biden signed into law a defense bill that authorizes significant pay raises for junior enlisted service members, aims to counter China’s growing power and boosts overall military spending to $895 billion despite his objections to language stripping coverage of transgender medical treatments for children in military families.

A new historical marker has been unveiled in the hometown of James Meredith, honoring the Black man and Air Force veteran who integrated the University of Mississippi in 1962.

After the government pushed for the breakup of Google, accusing it of business practices that violate antitrust laws, the Mountain View, California, tech giant proposed its own solutions on Friday — to restructure its business contracts instead.

The U.N. organization assisting in investigating the most serious crimes in Syria said the country’s new authorities were “very receptive” to its request for cooperation during a just-concluded visit to Damascus, and it is preparing to deploy.

Maryland is poised to gain control of a D.C. Air National Guard squadron, a U.S. Air Force spokesperson has confirmed, putting back into place the third major component of a multilayered deal around the District’s control of the RFK Stadium site.

One of Colombia’s legendary drug lords and a key operator of the Medellin cartel has been deported back to the South American country, after serving 25 years of a 30-year prison sentence in the United States.

Former President Bill Clinton was admitted Monday to MedStar Georgetown University Hospital in Washington after developing a fever.

The USS Cole returned to Naval Station Norfolk in Virginia on Monday after a seven-month combat deployment that took the crew into the tense conflicts of the Middle East.

Two Navy aviators were rescued after the fighter jet they were flying was shot down this week in an apparent “friendly fire” incident were responding to incoming one-way aerial attack drones and anti-ship cruise missiles threatening U.S. forces in the Red Sea.