A day after the shooting at a nightclub in Istanbul that left 39 dead and dozens wounded, families and friends of victims gathered to bury their loved ones and console each other on Monday. By AINARA TIEFENTHÄLER. Photo by Umit Bektas/Reuters.

The Obama administration was riven for months by an internal debate about how much of its evidence to make public. Credit Al Drago/The New York Times. WASHINGTON — President Obama struck back at Russia on Thursday for its efforts to influence the ...

The Long Island retreat called Killenworth that was once the home of George duPont Pratt. The estate is often nearly empty, according to law enforcement officials, inhabited year-round by just a few Russian caretakers. Credit Johnny Milano for The New ...

Syria's foreign minister has welcomed the cease-fire agreement and said there is a "real chance" for a political settlement. In comments made to Syrian TV Thursday, he said the Syrian government will attend peace talks in the Kazakh capital Astana ...

UNITED NATIONS — In a striking rupture with past practice, the United States allowed the U.N. Security Council on Friday to condemn Israeli settlements in the West Bank and east Jerusalem as a "flagrant violation" of international law. In doing so ...

A truck trailer stood among destroyed Christmas market stalls in Berlin on Tuesday, the day after the attack that left 12 dead and 48 injured. At center is the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church. Credit Markus Schreiber/Associated Press. BERLIN ...

President-elect Donald J. Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Wednesday. He and his national security adviser met with a group of top military officers. Credit Kevin D. Liles for The New York Times. WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump seemed to ...

China's foreign minister has expressed condolences to his Russian counterpart on the killing of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, calling the assassination a "barbaric act of terrorism." Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Tuesday that China strongly ...

China's foreign minister has expressed condolences to his Russian counterpart on the killing of the Russian ambassador to Turkey, calling the assassination a "barbaric act of terrorism." Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Tuesday that China strongly ...

The gunman immediately after shooting the Russian ambassador to Turkey on Monday at a gallery in Ankara. Credit Yavuz Alatan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Turkey and Russia, whose up-and-down relationship has helped shape the Syrian war ...

The gunman immediately after shooting the Russian ambassador to Turkey on Monday at a gallery in Ankara. Credit Yavuz Alatan/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. Turkey and Russia, whose up-and-down relationship has helped shape the Syrian war ...

President Xi Jinping singing the Chinese national anthem at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Unlike President-elect Donald J. Trump, Mr. Xi rarely speaks off the cuff in public. Credit Damir Sagolj/Reuters. BEIJING — Both came to power vowing ...

A Syrian war monitoring group says the first convoy to evacuate civilians and fighters from eastern Aleppo in over 48 hours has arrived safely to the Aleppo countryside. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said shortly before midnight ...

The drone was launched by the Bowditch, an American ship, on Thursday. Credit United States Navy/Reuters. BEIJING — The Pentagon on Saturday said that Beijing had agreed to return an underwater drone seized by China in international waters, an ...

Syrians were evacuated from a rebel-held area of eastern Aleppo on Friday. Credit Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. BEIRUT, Lebanon — The process of evacuating residents from the last rebel-held section of Aleppo broke down on Friday, a day after ...

Lin Fei-fan, a protest leader, in Taipei, Taiwan. He is excited by President-elect Donald J. Trump's apparent willingness to rethink the One China policy, but also anxious: “We are suspicious of his motivations.” Credit An Rong Xu for The New York Times.

President-elect Donald J. Trump in Wisconsin on Tuesday. Chinese state news outlets have argued that the United States election demonstrated why one-party rule is right for China. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times. BEIJING — Donald J. Trump isn't ...

Rex W. Tillerson, chairman and chief executive of Exxon Mobile, is President-elect Donald J. Trump's pick for secretary of state. Credit Jessica Rinaldi/Reuters. HOUSTON — Three years ago, Rex W. Tillerson, the chief executive of Exxon Mobil and now ...

Syrian activists say government forces have detained 6,000 teenage and adult men trying to escape an assault on rebel-held eastern Aleppo since mid-November. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, citing contacts inside the Syrian ...

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell urged Republicans and Democrats to work together to investigate Russian efforts to influence the election. “This simply cannot be a partisan issue,” he said. By REUTERS. Photo by Michael Reynolds/European ...