President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan held a teleconference early Sunday with U.S. President Donald Trump and regional leaders on Iran and Middle East developments, according to Türkiye's Communications Directorate.

The United States and Iran sought on Sunday to finalize an agreement to formally end the Middle East war after Donald Trump said a proposal that included opening the blockaded Strait of Hormuz was "largely negotiated".

A gunman opened fire near the White House on Saturday evening, with U.S. Secret Service agents killing the assailant in a shoot-out during which a bystander was also struck, authorities said.

Özgür Özel has been elected parliamentary group chair of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) at a closed group meeting held at the party’s headquarters.

Officials in the Democratic Republic of Congo updated the death toll from the Ebola outbreak to 204 late Saturday, hours after the Red Cross said three volunteers had died there and Uganda confirmed three new Ebola cases.