Bloomberg Facing calls to strike back at Russia for what US intelligence agencies have termed Moscow’s interference with the 2016 US presidential election campaign, Donald Trump instead suggested warmer relations between the two countries. The president-elect took to Twitter on Saturday to discuss the potential US-Russia relationship under his administration, a day after US spy chiefs briefed him on ...

  KABUL / AP Approximately 300 United States Marines will be deployed to train, advise and assist Afghan security forces in the southern province of Helmand. A Resolute Support Mission spokesman, US Navy Capt. Bill Salvin in Afghanistan, said on Sunday that the deployment will take place in the spring. Salvin said in a statement that the marines are scheduled to ...

  JERUSALEM / AP A truck rammed into a group of Israeli soldiers who were disembarking from a bus in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four people and wounding 15 others, Israeli police and rescue services said. Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said the truck veered off course and rammed into the group. She said the attacker was shot dead. The attack ...