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Eight candidates for FBI director were interviewed at the US Justice Department headquarters on Saturday, as US President Donald Trump suggested a decision on a nominee to replace ousted director…

Millions of Nepalis headed to the polls on Sunday for a historic local election being held for the first time after the end of war nearly 10 years ago.

A global cyber attack leveraging hacking tools believed to have been developed by the US National Security Agency has infected tens of thousands of computers in nearly 100 countries, disrupting…

A key battle in the fight against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Syria is expected to unfold this summer, a commander said on Friday.

US-supported Syrian Kurdish forces…

The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totaling more than $100 billion, a senior White House official said on Friday, a week ahead of US President Donald…

A man purporting to be a Boko Haram fighter said the militant group plans to bomb Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, in a recent video. “More bombs attacks are on the way, including Abuja that you feel is…

Police in Myanmar have issued arrest warrants for seven Buddhist nationalists for inciting violence after a scuffle with local Muslims.

Dozens had stormed into Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township…

Ivory Coast’s government vowed to rIvory Coast’s government vowed to rein in soldiers that fired in the air in several cities ein in soldiers that fired in the air in several cities across the…

Ugandan rights activists say grisly images of the torture of a detained politician showing septic wounds on his body highlight the escalating brutality and impunity of the country’s security…

Another self-inflicted crisis has left Donald Trump’s critics outraged and some of his Republican allies dismayed, but a bedrock of support for the billionaire US leader means the political…

Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian youth and wounded more than 10 others during clashes in the occupied West Bank, according to officials and health workers.

Emmanuel Macron's visit to Berlin on Monday, a day after his inauguration as French president, is aimed at stressing the importance of France's relationship with Germany to re-launch the European…

Young Venezuelan protesters lobbed bottles and bags of feces at soldiers who fought with tear gas to block the latest march in more than a month of nationwide protests against President Nicolas…

Some 8,400 Ivory Coast soldiers who mutinied in January apologized to President Alassane Ouattara in an orchestrated ceremony that was aired on national television late on Thursday.

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Two civilians were killed and three others injured on Thursday when Indian and Pakistani soldiers traded gunfire and shelled each other’s border posts in the disputed Kashmir region, officials…

Turkish police detained 53 former employees of the Istanbul Stock Exchange on Friday over alleged links to the US-based cleric accused of orchestrating last July’s attempted coup.

Hamas has arrested the suspected murderer of one of its key commanders in Gaza, the Palestinian movement’s leader said on Thursday, while maintaining Israel was behind the March assassination.

Contradicting previous White House explanations, US President Donald Trump has declared he had planned to fire FBI Director James Comey all along, regardless of whether top Justice Department…

Somalia’s president has called on the international community to lift an arms embargo on his country, as government soldiers battle to regain territory from the armed group Al-Shabaab.

North Korea’s military manpower has been growing but remains well below that of South Korea, which ranked 11th in the world, according to an annual ranking of the world’s armed forces.

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Fly-blown corpses of militants belonging to the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group littered the streets of a district in Mosul on Tuesday, as US-backed Iraqi forces chipped away at the last…

A top pro-government cleric and six children studying at his seminary were killed in a bomb attack in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, a security source confirmed.

The incident occurred at…

The United Nations peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic has strongly condemned the attack on one of its convoys in the country’s south that killed one Cambodian peacekeeper.

US President Donald Trump abruptly fired FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday, ousting the nation’s top law enforcement official in the midst of an FBI probe into whether Trump’s campaign had ties…

Seeking to end a stalemate with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Pentagon has drafted proposals for a slight increase in the number of US troops in Afghanistan, as well as expanded authority to…