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US-led coalition airstrikes on Thursday killed at least 35 civilians in an eastern Syrian town held by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, a monitor said.

The Syrian Observatory…

A young man set ablaze by protesters in Caracas. Looting, destruction and 57 people dead.

Both the Venezuelan government and the opposition admit that violent protests that have gripped the…

The FBI’s criminal probe of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election is increasingly touching on the multiple roles of senior White House adviser, Jared Kushner, on both the Trump…

The Maute group confronting the Philippine Army in Marawi City is no longer considered a local terrorist organization as it has been reinforced by militants of Malaysian, Indonesian and “other…

A declassified document, obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, shows that the US Army failed to keep accurate records on over $1 billion worth of arms transfers to Iraq and Kuwait, sent…

President Emmanuel Macron will ask France’s Parliament to extend a state of emergency, in place since the 2015 attacks by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, following this Monday’s…

At least 20 dead bodies have been seen in the sea some 30 miles off the coast of Libya, Italy’s Coast Guard said on Wednesday, as efforts to rescue some 1,700 people packed onto 15 boats continued…

Britain prepared to deploy soldiers at key sites on Wednesday having raised its terror threat level to maximum after a suicide bomber massacred 22 people at a pop concert in Manchester.

Pope Francis welcomed US President Donald Trump at the Vatican, in a meeting that came against a backdrop of disagreements on a range of issues, including immigration, climate change and refugee…

Five people were killed in Bahrain after security forces launched an operation near the home of the kingdom’s Shia-Muslim cleric.

The raid on Tuesday took place in Diraz, the home village…

Myanmar’s leader Aung San Suu Kyi opened a new round of talks with some of the country’s myriad ethnic groups on Wednesday, looking to revive a stuttering peace process after a tough first year in…

While the Venezuelan government has announced elections amid ongoing opposition violence, rightwing opposition leader, Julio Borges, called it a move to “distract and divide”.

North Korea-if left unchecked-is on an “inevitable” path to obtaining a nuclear-armed missile capable of striking the United States, a senior US defense official says.

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte warned on Wednesday that he’ll be harsh in enforcing martial law in his country’s south, as he abruptly left Moscow to deal with a crisis at home…

South Korea fired warning shots on Tuesday after an unidentified object flew south from rival North Korea, Seoul’s military said.

US forces have carried out a raid on a target that Pentagon has labeled as “an Al-Qaeda compound in Yemen, killing seven militants”, the US military says.

They were killed “through a…

Strongly condemning the May 21 ballistic missile launch conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the United Nations Security Council vowed to “fully and comprehensively implement…

Children were among 22 people killed in a suicide bombing at a pop concert in the British city of Manchester, the country’s deadliest terror attack in 12 years.

Screaming fans, many of them…

The liberation of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul “is imminent” and the days of the self-styled Islamic State terrorists “are numbered”, the UN envoy for Iraq said on Monday.

Bahrain police on Tuesday opened fire on a long-running sit-in in support of a leading Shia cleric in the Sunni-ruled Persian Gulf state, hit by years of unrest.

Witnesses said there were…

Militants attacked an Afghan government army base in the southern province of Kandahar, killing at least 10 soldiers and wounding nine, defense officials said on Tuesday.

The attack began…

Former president, Park Geun-hye, stared straight ahead and denied that she engaged in bribery and leaked government secrets at Tuesday’s start of the criminal trial that could send South Korea’s…

The top two leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee are leaving the door open to holding Michael Flynn in contempt of Congress after US President Donald Trump’s former national security…

More than 220 suspects, including over two dozen former Turkish generals, went on trial on Monday accused of being among the ringleaders of the attempted coup last year aimed at ousting President…

North Korea said on Monday it's ready to deploy and start mass-producing a new medium-range missile capable of reaching Japan and major US military bases there following a test launch it…