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West African armies halted an operation in Gambia aimed at installing the country’s new president, Adama Barrow, on Thursday so regional leaders could make one last attempt to convince longtime…

US stealth bombers and drones have carried out airstrikes on suspected IS training camps in Libya and American commanders believe they were successful in destroying the camps.

Donald Trump on Thursday pledged to bring unity to America as he swept into Washington on the eve of the most consequential moment of his life—his inauguration as 45th president of the United…

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation plans to send a high-level delegation to Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state to assess the plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority, Malaysia said on Thursday.…

Three earthquakes have hit central Italy in short succession, with tremors felt in the capital, Rome, forcing an evacuation of the underground train system.

The German Research Centre for…

The United States should not allow a delegation from Taiwan to attend the inauguration of US president-elect, Donald Trump, China's Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday, raising a new bone of…

Two consecutive days of shooting attacks that left a total of nine dead have put two of the jewels of Mexico’s Caribbean coast on edge and spurred a warning to tourists by the US government.

Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund Christine Lagarde expressed doubt on Wednesday whether US president-elect, Donald Trump, has a clear plan of the economic policies he is going…

Moscow considers Austria’s program of chairmanship in OSCE as pragmatic and is ready to take steps for its implementation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

The Organization for…

Center-right politician Antonio Tajani was elected the new president of the European Parliament on Tuesday after defeating his socialist rival, a fellow Italian, in a daylong series of votes. The…

Hamas and Fatah, the leading Palestinian political parties, have agreed to form a unity government after intense negotiations in Russia’s capital, Moscow.

The three-day meetings were…

US President Barack Obama slashed the sentence of transgender army private, Chelsea Manning, who had been sentenced to 35 years behind bars for handing classified US documents to WikiLeaks.

Nigeria’s military says a fighter jet has mistakenly bombed a refugee camp in the country’s northeast, killing dozens of people and wounding scores more, according to aid workers.

Gambia’s National Assembly passed a resolution allowing President Yahya Jammeh, who lost an election in December, to stay in office for three more months, state TV announced on Wednesday.

A Palestinian teenager has been shot dead by the Israeli army during a confrontation in the occupied West Bank, according to officials. The violence erupted on Monday when Israeli forces raided…

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled that a former Libyan dissident Abdul-Hakim Belhaj can sue the former foreign secretary Jack Straw, according to the ruling published on…

Britain will leave the European Union’s single market but will “seek greatest possible access to it” as it exits the bloc, Theresa May announced.

France has claimed the position of the country least trusted by its people, according to an influential survey by the world’s largest public relations firm.

A thumping 72% of the French…

A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced 26 people, including a politician and three officials of an elite security battalion, to death in the grisly, politically motivated killings of seven people…

The United Nations’ humanitarian aid official in Yemen said the civilian death toll in the nearly two-year conflict has reached 10,000, with 40,000 others wounded.

The Office for the…

At least eight policemen have been killed in an attack on a security checkpoint in Egypt’s Western Desert. Egypt’s Interior Ministry said two of the assailants were also killed when forces at the…

On Friday morning in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov signaled willingness to work with the incoming Trump administration on a variety of issues from Syria peace talks to…

Europe’s destiny lies in its own hands, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday in response to comments from US president-elect, Donald Trump, who said in a newspaper interview he believed…

Turkish police were questioning on Tuesday the suspected terrorist who slaughtered 39 people on New Year’s night at an Istanbul nightclub, after capturing him in a raid on a residential area of…

The search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was officially suspended Monday morning after three years of searching for the airplane thought to have gone down somewhere over the Indian Ocean.