Trump's order came amid a tense dispute over an American detained in Turkey Washington, D.C. -- Incensed by the detention of American pastor Andrew Brunson, President Donald Trump called for a plan to ...

President Donald Trump touted the release of Pastor Andrew Brunson while speaking at a rally in Lebanon, Ohio, on Friday night. "Earlier today we secured the release of Pastor Andrew Brunson," Trump ...

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pressed Turkey on Friday for the release of a detained American pastor whose case has led the Trump administration to hit senior Turkish officials with sanctions ...

In exchange for Brunson's release, and that of other US citizens as well as three Turkish nationals working for the US government, Turkey asked Washington to drop a probe into Halkbank, which is ...

Turkey was on Thursday drawing up retaliatory measures after Washington slapped sanctions on two Turkish ministers in the one of the biggest crises between the two ...

The White House and members of Congress have raised Brunson’s case personally with Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, including mostly recently in a phone call by Trump. p pulse Follow SAKRAN, ...

SINGAPORE — Turkey and the US failed to resolve the diplomatic standoff over a detained pastor on Friday, with Ankara’s foreign minister warning that sanctions and threats would not work. Secretary of ...

In September, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan suggested that Turkey could free Brunson if Washington handed over Gulen, who lives in self-imposed exile in Pennsylvania -- an offer brushed off by ...

YENISAKRAN, Turkey — A Turkish court on Monday ordered an American pastor to remain behind bars as his trial for opened on charges that he aided terrorist groups in Turkey. p pulse Follow The pastor, ...

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The replacement of the main prosecutor in the trial of an American pastor in Turkey may be a positive change, the lawyer for the clergyman told Reuters on Thursday, though he said ...

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin on Thursday said that the United States would levy more sanctions on the troubled Turkish economy if Ankara does not release an American pastor. "We have put sanctions ...

Brunson, 50, has been living in Turkey for 23 years and served as the pastor of Izmir Resurrection Church with a small Protestant congregation. The pastor was first detained in October 2016 with his ...