President Trump downplayed the likelihood of a peace deal and renewed his call on Iranians to "rise up" against their leaders.

President Donald Trump said earlier in the week he would retaliate against Iran for recent attacks on U.S. troops stationed in Jordan.

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President Donald Trump has entangled the United States in a war of choice with Iran that he cannot easily win or quit. The war was meant to be what Trump called “a little excursion” that would be over within a few weeks.

Russia says it will shutter German cultural centers across the country. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced the move Thursday at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok. It comes after

Russia ⁠will ⁠close Germany's Goethe-Institut ⁠cultural centres, Russian newswires quoted Russian Foreign ​Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Thursday, after ‌Germany blamed Russia for a ‌drone incident at the Leipzig/Halle Airport.

The Russian government will close Goethe-Institut branches, Germany's international cultural institutes, across the country, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Thursday. Lavrov said the move was in response to Germany's planned closure of the Russian House in Berlin,

It is the first time Berlin has openly accused Russia of an attempted attack within German borders, Die Zeit's foreign affairs editor said, describing it as a smart and "half-courageous" move that liberates the security forces,

As the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln pulled into port in Thailand on Wednesday, observers were shocked by its appearance. The almost 1,100-foot-long warship was covered in rust from bow to stern.

The crew will get a chance to “rest and recharge” in the beach destination of Pattaya, after reports of deteriorating conditions aboard the aircraft carrier.

The USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier docked at a port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday after its grueling deployment in the Middle East.

The USS Abraham Lincoln ended a record stretch at sea, making its first port call in nine months. It comes amid concerns about living conditions aboard. NBC News’ Courtney Kube reports.

Dozens of workers trapped in the tunnels of hydropower projects hit by the Himalayan catastrophe could still be alive.

Authorities in Nepal have been working for days to find more survivors of the devastating flash flood that ravaged the Himalayan nation and neighbouring Tibet, killing over 1,000 people, with thousands more still missing.

It was almost a week ago that a wall of water and mud and rock devastated riverside Himalayan communities in Tibet and Nepal and rescuers are still trying to locate hundreds of missing people. Many of them are workers believed to be trapped inside a dozen hydro-power plants.

Crews are searching for more than 600 hydropower workers who may still be trapped deep inside the mud-filled tunnels.

Officials say Russian aerial attacks have killed two civilians and wounded six in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro. The Kyiv and Odesa regions also were heavily targeted Wednesday. The air

Russia bombarded the Ukrainian capital for more than 12 hours, killing at least a dozen people. Ukrainian authorities said it was another aerial onslaught aimed at menacing civilians. The strikes

Ukrainian authorities say that Russia has launched a large aerial assault on Ukraine’s capital and surrounding region. The attacks from Monday evening to early Tuesday killed at least 12 people

Russian forces relentlessly battered Kyiv and cities in the region around the Ukrainian capital for a fifth straight day on Monday, leaving some supermarket shelves bare after repeated strikes on warehouses,

Daphne Caruana Galizia's killing shocked Europe, led to protests that toppled a prime minister and exposed a culture of impunity in the European Union's smallest state.

A jury has acquitted the Maltese businessman accused of masterminding the 2017 car bomb killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia

Jury acquits Yorgen Fenech, accused by prosecutors of masterminding 2017 car-bomb killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia.

People hold placards and photos of killed journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia during a protest called for by Galizia’s family and civic movements on Dec. 3, 2019, outside the police headquarters in Valletta.