DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) – When President Barack Obama arrives in the Saudi capital on Wednesday, he’ll face an increasingly assertive leadership still heavily dependent on U.S. weapons and military might that nonetheless has little trust in him and essentially believes it’s been thrown a curveball. The president is …

KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) – Taliban attackers in Afghanistan staged an assault on a government security agency in the capital, Kabul, on Tuesday morning, killing at least 28 people and wounding more than 320. The assault, which include at least two attackers and a car rigged with explosives, came a week …

MOSCOW (AP) – Ukraine and Russia have reached a deal to free a jailed Ukrainian pilot, President Petro Poroshenko said Tuesday, suggesting that she will be swapped for two Russian servicemen jailed in Ukraine this week. Nadezhda Savchenko, who was captured by Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine in 2014, was …