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United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has presented his plan to prevent violent extremism to the General Assembly. He asked countries to create national plans to counter violent ideologies…

After ringing in the new year with claims of its first successful hydrogen bomb test, North Korea is now calling on the United States and the world community to accept it as a nuclear power,…

Turkish police have detained 18 academics from among 1,000 scholars who signed a declaration denouncing military operations last month.

The academics also called for peace with Kurds in the…

Nabil Fadli, a Saudi-born Syrian who killed 10 German tourists in a suicide bombing in Istanbul, was planning a major attack on New Year’s Eve celebrations in Ankara but changed targets after the…

Taiwan looks set on Saturday to elect an independence-leaning opposition leader as its first woman president who could usher in a new round of uncertainty with China, the massive neighbor that…

Indonesia shut down at least 11 radical websites and several social media accounts on Saturday after a deadly gun and bomb attack claimed by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group rocked…

About 30 hostages have been freed at a hotel attacked by suspected militants in Burkina Faso’s capital but at least 20 people are feared dead.

Gunmen stormed Ouagadougou’s Splendid Hotel…

A special court is being set up in The Hague to try war crimes committed during the 1999-2000 war in Kosovo, the Dutch government announced.

It will try serious crimes allegedly committed…

Malaysian police said on Saturday they had arrested a suspected militant with weapons and documents related to the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group at a train station in the capital Kuala…

Iraq’s top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, on Friday urged the government to prevent militant attacks and condemned bombings claimed by Islamic State and retaliatory assaults this…

Guatemalan former TV comedian Jimmy Morales has been inaugurated as the country’s new president.

He was elected in October after huge anti-corruption demonstrations led to the prosecution…

The sixth Republican presidential debate came just two weeks before the first real test of the campaign, when voters in Iowa pick their Republican and Democratic choices for president.

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A Bavarian mayor angry about Germany’s asylum policy has sent a busload of Syrian migrants to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s office in Berlin. But he has ended up paying for their accommodation in the…

A man who died in a Nov. 18 police assault in Saint-Denis, near Paris, days after attacks in the French capital that killed 130 people, has been identified as a Belgian-Moroccan national, the…

Indonesian police killed one suspected militant and arrested two more in a pre-dawn raid across the country on Friday, a day after an attack by the self-styled Islamic State suicide bombers and…

A bomb attack on a police station in the town of Cinar in southeast Turkey has left six people dead, including three children.

Turkish authorities blamed the attack on the PKK amid fresh…

Under the new law, refugees in Germany will receive IDs that will contain information, such as fingerprints and country of origin, health status and qualifications.

A centralized system…

A deal on reforms Britain has demanded to stay in the European Union will be put in writing by early February for EU leaders to discuss later that month, a European diplomat said Wednesday.

The Paris attackers used two apartments and a house in Belgium as possible safe houses in the weeks leading up to their coordinated shooting and suicide bomb assault on the French capital,…

After taking in a million Syrian refugees, Lebanon has quietly changed course in recent months, forcing refugees to return to Syria—where they are at risk—or stay illegally, leaving them…

Afghan security forces exchanged fire with gunmen barricaded in a house near the Pakistan Consulate in the eastern city of Jalalabad on Wednesday after a suicide bomber blew himself up, officials…

President Barack Obama has vigorously defended his legacy while striking an optimistic note for America’s future in his final State of the Union address.

He criticized the negative tone of…

Samar Badawi, sister of jailed Saudi blogger Raif Badawi and former wife of Waleed Abu al-Khair, has been arrested.  Amnesty International has said her arrest may be linked to a Twitter…

A suicide blast rocked a polio vaccination center in Quetta, Pakistan, killing at least 14 people and wounding around 20 others. The blast came before vaccination teams were due to launch an…

Four Israelis have been charged over the beating of an Eritrean migrant who was mistaken for a gunman during a militant attack last October.

Habtom Zerhom was first shot by a security guard…