KIEV, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday appointed former Defense Minister Rustem Umerov as secretary of the National Security and Defense Council (NSDC), the ...

ANKARA, July 18 (Xinhua) -- Turkish security forces have detained 153 suspects across 28 provinces in a sweeping counterterrorism operation targeting the Islamic State (IS) over the past two weeks, a ...