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US President Donald Trump told Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan the US was "done" with Syria as the pair discussed the possible withdrawal of US forces from the country ahead of Trump's announcement of the draw down on Wednesday.

A total of 13 suspects have been arrested in connection with the deaths of two tourists in Morocco, the state-owned 2M news agency reported.

Terror group al Qaeda is "resurgent" and looking to carry out attacks on passenger planes in Europe, UK Security Minister Ben Wallace has warned.

Japan suffered its biggest natural population decline ever this year, government statistics show.

Former Nissan chief Carlos Ghosn, detained for the past five weeks on charges he underreported his income, will spend Christmas and New Year's Eve in a Tokyo jail cell

The order to withdraw US forces from Syria has been signed.

President Donald Trump announced on Sunday he would replace Defense Secretary James Mattis at the start of the new year, two months earlier than Mattis' planned departure.

Two people arrested over the widespread disruption of flights at London's Gatwick Airport through the illegal use of drones have been released without charge on Sunday.

A tsunami hit Pandeglang, Serang and South Lampung, Indonesia, early Sunday, killing 20 people and injuring 165, according to a tweet from Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, head of public relations at Indonesia's National Disaster Mitigation Agency.

An Indonesian pop band performing near the beach was swept away when a tsunami hit the Sunda Strait on Saturday.

A Congolese boy who traveled to the United States to have a tumor removed from his face died Friday, the organization who sponsored him said in a statement.

When Emmanuel Macron was still France's Economy Minister, he said French politics lacked the presence of a king -- "A King whom, fundamentally, I don't think the French people wanted dead," he said back in 2015.

An unnamed, foreign government-owned company in a mystery court case is asking the Supreme Court to pause a grand jury subpoena it received related to special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation.

Years after the gang rape of a student on a New Delhi bus shocked the world, women in India remain haunted by the case.

The New Jersey Division of Civil Rights is investigating an incident at a high school wrestling match this week in which a referee told a black wrestler to cut off his dreadlocks or forfeit the match.

A 10th person has died in connection with the "gilets jaunes" or "yellow vest" protests in France as they enter their sixth consecutive weekend.

An American tourist who is legally blind and eventually will totally lose her sight was last seen more than a week ago on a trail near a small village in Peru, her brother said Saturday.

For those of us who viewed President Trump's decision to appoint Matthew Whitaker as acting attorney general with great skepticism, our greatest fears are now manifest.

Beloved Japanese Emperor Akihito has released his final annual birthday statement before he abdicates the throne in April -- the first Japanese monarch to do so in 200 years.

Brett McGurk, the special presidential envoy for the global coalition to counter ISIS, submitted his resignation Friday because of the President's decision to pull US forces out of Syria, according to a senior administration official.

Lawmakers are expected to convene Saturday on Capitol Hill, as a plan to fund the government has yet to come to fruition. This comes just a day after members of Congress and President Donald Trump failed to come to an agreement on a deal, resulting in the third government shutdown this year.

The man responsible for a fatal Christmas market attack in the eastern French city of Strasbourg pledged allegiance to ISIS, a judicial source with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.

A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of "the criminal use of drones" at Gatwick Airport, police said, as flights steadily returned to normal Saturday at Britain's second busiest airport.

When the Financial Times pronounced Wednesday that the philanthropist George Soros was its "Person of the Year," Twitter ignited with partisan congratulation and animosity.

While negotiations continue in Congress to reach a deal to avert a partial government shutdown, there is virtually no chance a vote will happen Friday night -- all but assuring there will be a partial government shutdown at midnight.

It's business as usual at the Rafa Nadal Academy in Manacor, on the Spanish island of Mallorca, the week before Christmas.

The Supreme Court on Friday upheld a federal judge's order blocking the Trump administration's new asylum restrictions.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had two cancerous nodules removed from her left lung Friday at a New York hospital, the Supreme Court announced.

One of the UK's biggest airports is entering its third day of complete shutdown due to repeated drone sightings as police and security services struggle to catch the perpetrators -- affecting more than 110,000 passengers during the busiest travel period of the year.

President Donald Trump has at least twice in the past few weeks vented to his acting attorney general, angered by federal prosecutors who referenced the President's actions in crimes his former lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty to, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.

Dragonfly is dying.

The email looked innocuous enough.

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis will step down from his position early next year, President Donald Trump announced Thursday evening.

For six months now, the days have grown shorter and the nights have grown longer in the Northern Hemisphere -- but that's about to reverse itself.

A sidearm once belonging to an American soldier killed in Niger was recovered by French troops during an operation Wednesday near the Mali-Niger border, two US defense officials tell CNN.

Take a look at 28 photos taken from December 11 through December 20.

Listen to Miley Cyrus sing her own modern rendition of the classic Christmas tune, "Santa Baby."

It's as if they are fighting their own private duel, as Mikaela Shiffrin scored her sixth World Cup win of the season to edge back in front of men's great Marcel Hirscher.

Secretary of Defense James Mattis is stepping down at an extraordinarily fraught moment in American foreign policy. Coming on the wake of President Trump's surprise decision to withdraw troops from Syria, without having consulted allies and after barely talking to his own national security advisors, Secretary Mattis becomes the latest "adult in the room" to leave.

This week, we learned how shockingly lax Facebook appears to have been around how much of its data leaks into the servers of other companies, such as Amazon, Microsoft, Netflix and Spotify, according to a report by The New York Times. Once that data is 'in the wild,' neither Facebook, nor perhaps anyone else can be certain what companies, or perhaps which governments, can acquire and use it. A bit like the petroleum that drove earlier international conflicts, the oceans of data you help create by using Facebook and other digital platforms are likely soon to become terrain for geopolitical competition — a competition the United States is not well poised to win.

In all the turmoil, poison, and irresponsibility of the past two years, the last 72 hours merit the term "historic."

Fans are disappointed with Will Smith's Genie in the first look at the "Aladdin" remake because he isn't blue, but Smith says he will be in the final product.

Despite President Trump's statement on Twitter that the US has beaten ISIS, recent footage of troops in Syria demonstrates that the fight against ISIS persists.

Ukrainians haven't had much to cheer about in recent years. There has been conflict, misery, uncertainty. But as one of the country's most successful sports stars, Elina Svitolina hopes she can provide some joy during the bleakest of times.