Senior Vatican officials have spoken out sharply against the war in the Middle East, but Pope Leo XIV made a tempered call for peace that did not assess blame.

Japan has no plan to dispatch naval vessels to escort vessels in the Middle East, ​Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Monday, after U.S. ‌President Donald Trump called on allies to protect tankers traversing through the Strait of Hormuz.

Israeli soldiers fired on a car carrying a family in the northern West Bank, killing four people including two children, the Palestinian Authority's Health Ministry said.

Myanmar has opened its first parliamentary session in more than five years following an election that did not include major opposition parties, ensuring that the ruling military is set to retain a firm grasp on power.

U.S. intelligence has circulated to President Trump's inner circle that Iran's late supreme leader had misgivings about his son replacing him, viewing Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei as not very bright.

Hungarian opposition leader Peter Magyar’s supporters packed central Budapest in a show of strength a month before elections that polls show could spell the end of Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s 16-year rule.

Fox News contributor Kim Strassel discusses growing Democratic opposition to Operation Epic Fury and President Donald Trump’s actions toward Iran on ‘One Nation.’

Voters in Kazakhstan headed to the polls Sunday for a referendum on a new constitution that would strengthen President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev’s grip on power in Central Asia’s largest country. The proposal merges the Kazakhstani parliament’s two chambers into one and gives the president the right to appoint all government officials,