International

Civilian casualties have increased sharply in the US-led military campaign against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Syria and Iraq, with nearly 60% of the officially acknowledged…

Britain entered the final day of campaigning ahead of a parliamentary election that will define its approach to leaving the European Union but has been overshadowed by two militant attacks in as…

France has asked the UN Security Council to authorize the deployment of a five-nation African military force to fight terrorists in the Sahel region. A draft resolution circulated to the 15-member…

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel accused US President Donald Trump of stirring up conflicts in the Middle East and risking a new arms race as Qatar’s neighbors cut ties with Doha.

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The chairman of Amnesty International Turkey has been detained in the western city of Izmir along with 22 other lawyers over alleged links to the Gulen movement, an organization that the country…

Top US intelligence officials were grilled by lawmakers on Wednesday about Russia’s election interference and possible coordination with Donald Trump’s campaign, ahead of a highly-anticipated…

Police have shot a man who attacked an officer with a hammer outside the Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

The man shouted “this is for Syria” during the attack, the interior minister said.…

A suspected bomb outside a historical mosque in the Afghan city of Herat killed at least seven people and wounded 15 on Tuesday, police said, the latest casualties in a particularly bloody week in…

Two days from a national election, Britain's ruling Conservatives and opposition Labor Party battled to defend their records on security after a terrorist attack that killed seven people in London…

Opening a “game-changing” international conference on the health of the world’s oceans and seas, top United Nations officials on Monday urged coordinated global action to protect the planet.

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull has ordered a major inquiry into the nation’s espionage and foreign interference laws, amid concerns about Chinese influence in Australian politics.

Australian police have said they are treating a deadly shooting and siege in Melbourne as a terrorist incident, after the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group said it was behind the attack.…

The death toll from a truck-bomb explosion in Kabul last week has reached more than 150 people, all of whom were Afghans, President Ashraf Ghani said on Tuesday, making it the deadliest attack in…

Kuwait is trying to mediate a regional crisis in which Arab countries have cut diplomatic ties with Qatar and moved to isolate the energy-rich, travel-hub nation from the outside world, Qatar’s…

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday President Donald Trump has asked him to rebuild the US relationship with Russia and not allow the political turmoil over possible Russian ties…

A top secret US report showing that hackers from Russian military intelligence tried repeatedly to break into US voting systems before last year’s presidential election raised new alarms about the…

The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces said on Tuesday it had begun a battle to capture Raqqa, the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group’s de facto capital in Syria, launching attacks from the…

US President Donald Trump on Monday emphatically referred to his executive order on immigration as a “travel ban” and said his Justice Department should not have submitted a “watered down,…

Police investigating Saturday night’s terror attack in London say they know the identity of the three attackers who killed seven people and injured 48.

The Met Police said their names would…

Qatar said there is “no legitimate justification” for several nations cutting diplomatic ties after Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UAE, Bahrain and the Maldives announced they would suspend relations with…

A powerful bomb exploded in the morning rush hour in the center of the Afghan capital on Wednesday, killing or wounding hundreds of people and sending clouds of black smoke into the sky above the…

Highlighting the seriousness of the impact of climate change on the planet and its inhabitants, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for sustained action to meet the global…

The Philippine military is urging militants occupying a southern city to turn themselves in, as the brutal conflict that has left over 100 people dead enters its eighth day.

The arrest and disappearance of three labor activists investigating a Chinese company that produces Ivanka Trump-branded shoes in China prompted a call for her brand to cease working with the…

The Pentagon successfully tested a US long-range interceptor missile over the Pacific Ocean on Tuesday in an exercise aimed at helping gauge American readiness to counter a potential threat from…