The U.S. says it will intensify combat against the Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan

The foreign policy agenda of Italy's new populist government causes stir on two fronts, with Tunisia protesting the interior minister's comment about migrants and the pro-Russia stance of the ruling coalition receiving scrutiny

The Tunisian Foreign Ministry has summoned the Italian ambassador to protest comments by Italy's new anti-immigration interior minister that the north African country doesn't send its gentleman overseas, but "convicts."

Italy's president asked political neophyte Giuseppe Conte to try to form a government Wednesday, giving the euroskeptic 5-Star Movement and anti-immigrant League a shot at running western Europe's first populist government

Since last spring, Chinese authorities in the heavily Muslim region of Xinjiang have ensnared at least tens, likely hundreds, of thousands of Muslim Chinese _ and even foreign citizens _ in mass internment camps

World powers involved in the Iran nuclear agreement expressed regret at Trump's decision to pull the U.S. out of the pact amid concern the move will undermine efforts to stop the spread of atomic weapons

Cyprus' foreign minister says a fresh U.N. bid to scope out changes of restarting talks to reunify the ethnically divided island without delay

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rebuked Russia Friday for aggression beyond its borders and vowed to restore the relevance of a badly demoralized State Department

NATO is backing Afghan President Ashraf Ghani's offer of peace talks to the Taliban, embracing what top officials say is an "unprecedented" opportunity to end the conflict in the insurgency-wracked country

NATO will hold its last major meeting in its old headquarters, with talks focused on strained ties with Russia, a fresh peace effort in Afghanistan and a new training mission for Iraq