International

The Colombian government and the left-wing rebel movement, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People’s Army (Farc), have both asked the UN for a mission to oversee the end of their…

A group of militants stormed a university in the volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 19 people as the army hunted for any gunmen still holed up on the campus, police said…

Kurdish forces have bulldozed, blown up and burned down thousands of Arab homes across northern Iraq in what may constitute a war crime, human rights watchdog Amnesty International said in a…

A top EU official has warned that the outcome of the migration crisis could lead to the EU failing “as a political project”. The statement comes as Germany’s FM said closing the country’s borders…

Defense ministers of seven countries are meeting in Paris to hash out strategies against the self-styled Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria.

Canada has been excluded from the…

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to hear President Barack Obama's bid to resurrect his plan to shield more than 4 million illegal immigrants from deportation, a unilateral executive action…

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian is to visit the site of an avalanche in the Alps that killed five French foreign legionnaires. Another six were injured when the avalanche hit close to…

French officials have deployed bulldozers protected by riot police to demolish parts of the migrant camp in Calais. The refugees, aided by volunteers, had already abandoned sections of the so-…

A suicide bomber blew himself up close to a police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people and wounding more than 20, officials said.

The bomber rammed…

Three people were killed in a grenade attack in the Burundian capital Bujumbura late on Monday, police said, as the impoverished nation faces the prospect of a return to civil war. Burundi sank…

Human rights organization Amnesty has accused Apple, Samsung and Sony, among others, of failing to do basic checks to ensure minerals used in their products are not mined by children.

In a…

Greece’s head of state has described the situation in which Turkish border authorities aid smugglers as “a type of slave trade”. He met with his German counterpart to discuss ways to curb the…

Thousands of demonstrators have taken to the streets of Port-au-Prince to decry the upcoming runoff round of the presidential elections. The opposition is boycotting the vote and accusing the…

Mohammed Saad, a Syrian activist, was imprisoned by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, hung by his arms and beaten regularly. Then one day, his jailors quickly pulled him and other…

The US Embassy in Baghdad has confirmed that “several” Americans have been kidnapped there. “We are working with the full cooperation of the Iraqi authorities to locate and recover the individuals…

Representatives of four countries gathered amid tight security in the Afghan capital Kabul on Monday for a second round of talks aimed at bringing an end to Afghanistan’s 15-year war with the…

Candidates for the Democratic race for the White House have clashed on gun control and healthcare in their liveliest TV debate so far.

Hillary Clinton attacked Bernie Sanders’ record on gun…

A Turkish police officer and a soldier were killed by sniper fire and two Kurdish militants were shot dead in separate incidents in the mainly Kurdish southeast’s biggest city, security sources…

The US Marines Corps released the identities of 12 Marines missing at sea after two helicopters collided near the island of Oahu in Hawaii on Thursday night.

For China, whose President Xi Jinping is already taking an increasingly muscular approach to claims in the East and South China Sea, the question of Taiwan trumps any other of its territorial…

An Indonesian wounded in Thursday’s gun and bomb attacks in Jakarta has died, bringing the death toll to eight, including four civilians, police said.

The self-styled Islamic State militants in Syria are said to have abducted 400 civilians during a bloody assault on the eastern city of Deir al-Zour.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights…

An attack by Al-Qaeda militants at a hotel in the West African nation of Burkina Faso left at least 26 people dead and highlighted the militants’ shift to striking capital cities in the region.

A suicide bomber killed 13 people in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad on Sunday at the home of a tribal elder when people had gathered to celebrate his son’s release from Taliban captivity,…

US President on Saturday laid out a plan to help support the income of workers who lose their jobs and end up in lower paying positions, as part of a push to get unemployed Americans back to work…