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US president-elect Donald Trump said a briefing he was due to receive on Russia’s alleged hacking attacks and meddling with US elections was strangely delayed until Friday, making him wonder…

Israeli forces have killed more Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and Beit-ul-Moqaddas in 2016 than any other year in the last decade, rights group Defense for Children International…

Units of the Syrian Armed Forces and volunteer guards on Tuesday attacked the strongholds of terrorist groups to the north of the city of Homs, 165 km from Damascus, Al Watan newspaper said in a…

Turkey has established the identity of the gunman who killed 39 people in an attack on an Istanbul nightclub on New Year’s Day, its foreign minister said, and further arrests were made on…

The pace of German inflation more than doubled in December, driven by a surge in oil that is set to mask continued weakness in underlying price pressures in the months ahead.

Consumer…

At least 6,878 civilians were killed in Iraq last year, as the Iraqi government struggled to maintain security and dislodge fighters from the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group from areas…

The gunman who killed 39 people in an Istanbul nightclub on New Year's Day in an attack claimed by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group appears to have been well versed in guerrilla…

US president-elect Donald Trump on Tuesday named veteran steel industry trade lawyer, Robert Lighthizer, a harsh critic of China's trade practices, to be his chief trade negotiator, responsible…

The Turkish Armed Forces eliminated 18 IS militants and destroyed 150 targets as part of the Euphrates Shield Operation in northern Syria in coordination with Russia, the Turkish General Staff…

German authorities said on Monday that police had arrested a Syrian man who had allegedly asked the IS terrorist group to fund an attack using explosives-packed vehicles.

The unemployed 38-…

The US-led coalition has admitted to “unintentionally” killing at least 188 civilians in Syria and Iraq since 2014 when the airstrikes against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group began…

The US president-elect Donald Trump’s “clear warning” to North Korea shows he is aware of the urgency of the threat posed by its nuclear program and will not waver from a policy of sanctions…

The Philippines is tilting away from its traditional ally the United States towards China to “normalize” relations following a longstanding territorial dispute, the country’s incoming ambassador…

Rioting inmates decapitated their rivals in brutal fighting between two gangs in a Brazilian jail that left 56 dead, while 144 prisoners escaped, officials said.

The riot broke out Sunday…

At least 50 people have been killed in a bloody prison riot in the Amazon jungle city of Manaus, a Brazilian security official told the Globo TV network on Monday.

US President Barack Obama will deliver a farewell address on January 10 to reflect on his time in office and say thank you to his supporters, he said in an email statement released on Monday.

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has claimed the attack on the upscale Istanbul nightclub that left 39 people dead.

The statement emerged amid a massive manhunt by Turkish…

At least 25 people were detained in the Polish town of Elk on Sunday after they smashed up a kebab diner and clashed with police, throwing firecrackers and stones.

Up to 300 people took…

President Francois Hollande flew into Iraq on Monday and told French troops stationed there he was hoping for “a year of victory against terrorism”.

The Socialist president, whose country…

Hundreds of civilians fled a mountainous region outside the Syrian capital on Sunday where government forces battled several terrorist groups, including one excluded from a recent nationwide…

A plane carrying 35 Russian diplomats expelled from the United States over Moscow’s alleged interference in the presidential election took off from Washington on Sunday, Russian news agencies…

Pope Francis in his year-end message urged leaders on Saturday to do more to tackle youth unemployment, saying a generation was being lost to desperation, migration and joblessness.

Armed men attacked a prison in Bahrain where inmates convicted over anti-government protests are held, killing one policeman and allowing prisoners to escape, the interior ministry said.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Sunday the nuclear capable country was close to test-launching an Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM).

North Korea tested ballistic missiles at…

At least 39 people have been killed and dozens more wounded in an attack on a crowded nightclub in Istanbul, Turkey’s interior minister said.

Suleyman Soylu added that police are hunting a…