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Suicide bombers killed 17 people and injured 21 in the northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the police commissioner of Borno state said on Wednesday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that Moscow is “outraged” over the fact that Washington has not yet resolved the situation with Russian diplomatic property in the US, adding…

UK Prime Minister Theresa May attempted a “reset” for her government after last month’s election losses, but the bid was undermined by confusion over Brexit policy and a health scandal dating back…

The Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. during the 2016 US presidential campaign said on Tuesday she had no Kremlin ties and wanted to discuss US sanctions on Russian officials, not…

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was fighting for his political future on Tuesday after judicial investigators ruled his family had accumulated unusual wealth, with his allies denouncing the…

Sporadic clashes erupted in Mosul on Tuesday, a day after Iraq’s prime minister declared “total victory” over the self-styled Islamic State group, with several airstrikes hitting the Old City…

Former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh has denied plans to seek to assume power in the war-torn country.

Saleh “has affirmed that he was not seeking to return to power nor his son”, a…

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson told reporters in Doha that the Qatari government had “reasonable” views in the month-old diplomatic crisis with Arab neighbors.

“I think Qatar has been…

Afghan President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani on Tuesday once again called upon Taliban militants to give up fighting and join the peace process. “The time is running out and Taliban would lose the…

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had “confirmed information” that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed.

China hit back on Tuesday in unusually strong terms at repeated calls from the United States to put more pressure on North Korea, urging a halt to what it called the “China responsibility theory…

A US military plane used for refueling crashed into a soybean field in rural Mississippi, killing at least 16 people aboard in a fiery wreckage and spreading debris for miles, officials said.

Russia is ready to expel about 30 US diplomats and seize US state property in retaliation for Washington’s sanctions, Russian officials say.

The threat came from Russian foreign ministry…

Qatar plans to help citizens and companies claim compensation for their losses from what the country calls a “blockade” by its neighbors.

US President Donald Trump’s eldest son changed his account over the weekend of a meeting he had with a Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, saying on Sunday that the woman told him she had…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday it was increasingly important that neighboring Iraq remain a unified country and said a planned Kurdish referendum on independence should not…

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul on Sunday and congratulated the armed forces for their "victory" over the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group after eight months of…

It was not quite the G19 summit, but US President Donald Trump's approach to foreign affairs is severely straining global cohesion on key issues like climate change and free trade, exchanging an…

Two Egyptian policemen were killed in a roadside bomb blast late Saturday in the restive Sinai Peninsula, according to the country’s interior ministry. In a statement on Sunday, the ministry said…

Armenia has violated the ceasefire regime in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region 109 times over last 24 hours, Azerbaijan’s Defense Ministry said on Sunday, amid recently escalated tensions…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday Turkey would not watch passively as weapons are sent to Kurdish fighters on its southern border, saying his country would respond to any threats to…

A ceasefire has come into force in southwest Syria after a deal was brokered by the US, Russia and Jordan.

The truce is to be enforced by midday (0900 GMT) on Sunday, in the provinces of…

Sir Vince Cable, the likely next Lib Dem leader, says he is “beginning to think Brexit may never happen”.

He said “enormous” divisions in the Labour and the Tory parties and a “…

The Chinese People’s Liberation Army does not currently maintain any contacts with the North Korean military amid escalation of crisis on Korean peninsula, local media reported Sunday, citing…

Iraqi security forces were expected to take full control of Mosul on Saturday as the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group's defensive lines collapse in its former de facto capital in Iraq,…