Gambian soldiers guarded the presidential palace in Banjul, the capital, on Monday. Credit Legnan Koula/European Pressphoto Agency. DAKAR, Senegal — On his last night in the country, Yahya Jammeh, Gambia's former president, rolled toward his flight ...

ASTANA, Kazakhstan — Talks between the Syrian government and representatives of rebel factions got off to a rocky start Monday after their first face-to-face meeting in Kazakhstan that marked a major shift in the war's dynamics and confirmed Russia's ...

A ferry carrying people who fled Gambia arrived back in the country after the former president, Yahya Jammeh, relinquished power on Saturday. Credit Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images. DAKAR, Senegal — Four days into his term, tucked into a sofa 150 miles ...

A ferry carrying people who fled Gambia arrived back in the country after the former president, Yahya Jammeh, relinquished power on Saturday. Credit Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images. DAKAR, Senegal — Four days into his term, tucked into a sofa 150 miles ...

A ferry carrying people who fled Gambia arrived back in the country after the former president, Yahya Jammeh, relinquished power on Saturday. Credit Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images. DAKAR, Senegal — Four days into his term, tucked into a sofa 150 miles ...

A ferry carrying people who fled Gambia arrived back in the country after the former president, Yahya Jammeh, relinquished power on Saturday. Credit Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images. DAKAR, Senegal — Four days into his term, tucked into a sofa 150 miles ...

A ferry carrying people who fled Gambia arrived back in the country after the former president, Yahya Jammeh, relinquished power on Saturday. Credit Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images. DAKAR, Senegal — Four days into his term, tucked into a sofa 150 miles ...

A ferry carrying people who fled Gambia arrived back in the country after the former president, Yahya Jammeh, relinquished power on Saturday. Credit Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images. DAKAR, Senegal — Four days into his term, tucked into a sofa 150 miles ...

A ferry carrying people who fled Gambia arrived back in the country after the former president, Yahya Jammeh, relinquished power on Saturday. Credit Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images. DAKAR, Senegal — Four days into his term, tucked into a sofa 150 miles ...

A ferry carrying people who fled Gambia arrived back in the country after the former president, Yahya Jammeh, relinquished power on Saturday. Credit Andrew Renneisen/Getty Images. DAKAR, Senegal — Four days into his term, tucked into a sofa 150 miles ...

Publish Date January 20, 2017. Photo by Chang W. Lee/The New York Times. Watch in Times Video ». embed. ? President Trump's era on the government web began almost immediately with the wiping out of Obama-era initiatives and a new brand of policy ...

Scott Pruitt arriving for his confirmation hearing to be administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday. Credit Gabriella Demczuk for The New York Times. WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald J. Trump's cabinet nominees, while ...

WASHINGTON — Donald J. Trump arrived in Washington the day before his inauguration as the nation's 45th president in a swirl of cinematic pageantry but facing serious questions about whether his chaotic transition has left critical parts of the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The Supreme Court justice overseeing parts of the investigation into corruption at Brazil's national oil company died on Thursday in the crash of a small plane, stunning the country as investigators are intensifying their efforts to ...

PENNE, Italy — Rescue workers reported no signs of life Thursday at a four-star hotel buried by an avalanche in the mountains of earthquake-stricken central Italy. Two bodies were recovered of the estimated 30 people trapped inside as the risk of more ...

Soldiers attended to casualties on Wednesday after a suicide attack at a Malian camp where soldiers and former fighters who reached a peace agreement with the government in 2015 had been working together to try to stabilize the region. Credit Agence ...

President Yahya Jammeh, who has stiffly ruled the nation for 22 years since seizing power in a coup, announced the measure despite having lost the December election. By REUTERS. Photo by Marco Longari/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images.

President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia was greeted by supporters as he arrived at a campaign rally in November, about a week before the election. Credit Marco Longari/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. BANJUL, Gambia — President Yahya Jammeh ...

President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia was greeted by supporters as he arrived at a campaign rally in November, about a week before the election. Credit Marco Longari/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images. BANJUL, Gambia — President Yahya Jammeh ...

European Union President Donald Tusk has called British Prime Minister Theresa May's speech on Brexit "at least a more realistic announcement" than the months of waffling and unclear messages that have come after Britain's June 23 vote to leave the bloc.