International

The recapture of drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman took a Hollywood twist when a Mexican official said security forces located the whereabouts of the world’s most-wanted trafficker, thanks to a…

The Council on American-Islamic Relations has urged Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump to apologize to a Muslim protester ejected from one of his rallies. CAIR said Rose Hamid’s…

German police have said the man who attempted to attack a French police station in northern Paris on Thursday had lived in a shelter for asylum seekers in the western German state of North-Rhine…

The United States deployed a B-52 bomber on a low-level flight over its ally South Korea on Sunday, in a show of force following North Korea’s nuclear test last week.

North Korean leader…

Catalan separatists have struck an eleventh-hour deal to form a regional government that will work towards independence from Spain. The agreement required controversial secessionist leader Artur…

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Sunday he aimed to get a two-thirds majority from his ruling bloc and like-minded opposition parties at an upper house election this summer to enable him…

A huge manhunt in Argentina netted only one of three fugitives convicted of a triple murder, officials said hours after claiming all had been caught. The three broke out of a maximum-security…

Chinese police have arrested five more officials of a company involved in a deadly landslide that buried 77 people last month, state news agency Xinhua said, taking the tally of arrests to 16.…

Turkey’s President Erdogan has said that Turkish forces and a Sunni militia killed 18 IS militants in northern Iraq, a claim the Iraqi military denies. Erdogan also defended the contentious…

Syria’s government told a U.N. envoy on Saturday it was ready to take part in Geneva peace talks scheduled for Jan. 25 but said it wanted to know which opposition figures would participate.

North Korea trumpets a hydrogen bomb test. South Korea responds by cranking up blasts of harsh propaganda from giant green speakers aimed across the world’s most dangerous border. Now Pyongyang…

A Philadelphia police officer has been shot at least 11 times by a man claiming allegiance to the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations, a…

The White House has introduced new initiatives to combat recruitment of Americans by extremist groups like the self-styled Islamic State terrorists.

Among a raft of measures is the creation…

Two suspected militants stabbed and wounded three foreign tourists—two Austrians and a Swede—at a hotel in Egypt’s Red Sea resort city of Hurghada on Friday, the Interior Ministry said.

Mexico recaptured the world’s top drug boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman in a pre-dawn shootout and chase through drains on Friday, returning him to the same prison he escaped from six months ago, in…

Chancellor Angela Merkel has supported a proposal that would speed up the deportation process for migrants who commit crimes. Her comments come a week after a massive string of sexual assaults…

The Number Four Hospital in Henan province was partially demolished while still in use amid a land dispute, reportedly burying six bodies from its morgue under rubble. Hospital staff told…

US police have arrested a man, Scott Stockert, who was planning to snatch one of US President Barack Obama’s two pet dogs.  Police found weapons in Stockert’s vehicle, including a shotgun, a…

An Islamic State militant executed his mother in public in the Syrian city of Raqqa because she had encouraged him to leave the group, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday.…

Ethiopian security forces have killed at least 140 people taking part in mass anti-government demonstrations since November, activists say, according to US-based Human Rights Watch. The protests…

Belgian investigators believe explosives used in the attacks in Paris in November may have been made in an apartment in Brussels that was rented under a false name and where a fingerprint of a key…

Dozens of airstrikes hit the Yemeni capital Sana’a on Thursday, in what residents described as the heaviest aerial attacks yet in nine months of war, days after a Saudi-led coalition trying to…

A massive truck bomb exploded near a police base in the western Libyan town of Zliten on Thursday, killing at least 60 policemen and wounding around 200 others, officials said.

An inert US Hellfire missile sent to Europe for a training exercise was wrongly shipped on to Cuba. The incident in 2014 could have led to a serious loss of military technology, The Wall Street…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday flagged a veto on any possible European Union sanctions against Poland, a strong regional ally, following a recent meeting with the head of Poland’s…