U.S. President Donald Trump has said that he would be "honored" to meet North Korean leader Kim Jong Un "under the right circumstances."
Human Rights Watch (HRW) says new evidence indicates that the Syrian government used nerve agents in four chemical-weapons attacks since December, including the one in Khan Sheikhun on April 4 that killed nearly 100 people, including 30 children.
The UN high commissioner for human rights has voiced deep concern at mass arrests and firings of public employees in Turkey.
India has accused Pakistan of killing and then mutilating the bodies of two of its soldiers in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir.
French presidential front-runner Emmanuel Macron has said that the European Union must reform or face the prospect of "Frexit."
U.S-backed Kurdish-Arab forces have made gains against Islamic State (IS) militants in the town of Tabqa near the extremists' stronghold of Raqqa in northern Syria, a leading monitor group says.
The United Nations says a group of 36 Yazidis have been rescued in Iraq after three years of "slavery" under the rule of the Islamic State (IS) extremist group.
A U.S. watchdog group says in a new report that Afghan security forces suffered "shockingly high" casualties in this winter fighting the Taliban and other insurgents.
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the Western military alliance is close to making a decision on whether to increase its troop numbers in Afghanistan to help with the battle against militants.
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has officially opened a refinery on the Persian Gulf that he says will make the country self-sufficient in gasoline production, a project he credits the 2015 nuclear deal for making possible.
