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President Emmanuel Macron attempted Thursday to mend fences with the military after the resignation of the armed forces chief in a row over budget cuts for which France’s new leader has drawn…

Russia is setting its sights on making its navy the world’s second in combat capabilities, say the Fundamentals of Russia’s State Naval Policy Through 2030 approved by President Vladimir Putin’s…

Millions of Venezuelans have joined a general strike called by the opposition as pressure mounts on President Nicolás Maduro to cancel elections for a new constituent assembly.

The UK and EU are still at odds over citizens’ rights and the amount the UK will pay to divorce the bloc, at the end of the second week of Brexit talks.

EU negotiator Michel Barnier said…

The German government has refused approval for military exports to NATO partner country Turkey on a growing number of occasions. Ministers are concerned the weapons could be used to oppress the…

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Friday the United States is satisfied with Qatar’s efforts to implement an agreement aimed at combating terror financing signed last week, and he urged…

Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the Syrian army launched an offensive to drive insurgents from their last foothold on the Syrian-Lebanese border on Friday, a pro-Damascus military commander said.

Training by British police may have directly helped Saudi agents arrest more than a dozen people now believed to be facing execution.

MPs including ex-Labour leader Ed Miliband have written…

The pro-Russian rebel leader of a breakaway region in eastern Ukraine announced proposals to abolish Ukraine and create a new state in its place on Tuesday, comments that could further undermine a…

Five German women are in custody following a military operation in the Iraqi city of Mosul. It is alleged that they travelled to the embattled city to support the self-styled Islamic State terror…

The Syrian army seized new oil fields in the desert in the southwest of Raqqa Province on Monday in new advances against retreating self-styled Islamic state militants.

Arab League (AL) Secretary General Ahmed Abul Gheit on Monday stressed the necessity of maintaining the unity of Iraq. The AL chief made the remarks during a meeting with the permanent…

Israel continues the illegal practice of settlement expansion in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, a United Nations expert panel has said in its annual evaluation. It further accuses the…

Qatar’s Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammad al-Attiyah hinted that his country could sue the Saudi-led bloc before the International Criminal Court for compensations over the blockade imposed on…

The civilian death toll in Afghanistan, some 16 years into the US-led invasion and occupation, continues to rise precipitously, with the most recent figures out of the United Nations showing 1,662…

The implosion of the senate Republican health care bill leaves a divided GOP with its flagship legislative priority in tatters. Now, a wounded US President Donald Trump and congressional leaders…

Nine people are dead and one is missing after flash flooding swept away a family at a swimming hole in central Arizona, police say.

Fourteen family members were near the Cold Springs…

The German chancellor has rejected calls from her sister party to limit the number of refugees entering Germany. In a wide-ranging interview she defended the G20 summit in Hamburg and spending on…

If Washington sets conditions for the return of Russian diplomatic property it seized, it would be “daylight robbery,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

Pakistan’s Supreme Court on Monday began hearings that will decide the future of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is fighting for his job and contesting a damning corruption report by an…

The house version of the nearly $700 billion 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes multiple amendments aimed at limiting US involvement in the Saudi-led war in Yemen, explicitly…

The United Arab Emirates arranged for Qatari government social media and news sites to be hacked in late May in order to post false quotes linked to Qatar’s emir, prompting Arab diplomatic crisis…

Foes of President Nicolas Maduro said more than 7 million Venezuelans cast symbolic votes rejecting his plan to retool the constitution in a strong but not overwhelming showing that left the…

British and European Union envoys on Monday began a first round of negotiations on Britain's divorce from the EU with both sides saying it was high time to tackle details, though feuding within…

Cameroonian rescue teams are searching for 34 soldiers who went missing after a military vessel capsized in the country’s southwest region, local media reported on Monday.