Shots were fired at the American embassy in Ankara on Monday amid escalating tensions between Turkey and the US.

US President Donald Trump said he has ended development payment to Syria, adding that Saudi Arabia and other rich countries in the Middle East will start making payments instead of the US.

Two billion people are living in poverty while 753 million others experience extreme poverty and are struggling to survive, according to the Global Humanitarian Assistance Report 2018.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to visit Pyongyang next month at the invitation of North Korea leader Kim Jong Un to attend the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of North Korea’s founding.

The Russian daily Izvestia, citing the Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov on Friday, wrote that Russia's President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan can hold a separate meeting in Tehran in early September.

Russian air defense assets in Syria have downed 45 drones targeting their main base in the country, its military said Thursday, after an attack by Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group on a Syrian army base a day earlier killed seven troops.

Mike Pompeo, the US secretary of state, has formed a so-called ‘Iran Action Group’ (IAG) to coordinate and run Washington’s aggressive policy against the Islamic Republic.

Dozens of civilians have been abducted by the Turkish army and its affiliated militants in Afrin in the past two days as Ankara continues occupation of the region, local sources said.

An upgraded long-range missile-carrying bomer Tupolev 22M3M was rolled out on the premises of the S.P. Gorbunov Aircraft Building Plant in Kazan, Russia, on Thursday.

Relations between Turkey and the European Union have begun normalizing, and Ankara is determined to step up the visa liberalization dialogue with the bloc, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said amid recently exacerbated Ankara-Washington tensions.