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President Obama is delivering a yearend address before heading to San Bernardino to visit families bereaved by the terror attacks. Obama said it was his expectation by early next year to have…

US Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for meetings with US troops and military commanders and Afghan officials facing an insurgency that has inflicted growing numbers of…

Turkey and Israel have reached a preliminary agreement to normalize relations, including the return of ambassadors to both countries, an Israeli official said on Thursday.

The UN Security Council passed a resolution on Thursday to try and tighten the noose on the self-styled Islamic State by obstructing the terrorist group’s funding from oil and antiquities sales,…

The Rwandan people, living both inside and outside the country, are voting in a referendum on a constitutional amendment that would allow President Paul Kagame to serve a third term.

A friend of one of the San Bernardino attackers has been charged in connection with the mass shooting that killed 14. Enrique Marquez, 24, is the first person arrested over the deadliest terrorist…

At a meeting of all 28 European Union leaders in Brussels on Thursday, the group took a brief respite from discussing the continent’s migrant crisis to mull the next looming threat to…

China’s military carried out war games in the disputed South China Sea this week, with warships, submarines and fighter jets simulating cruise missile strikes on ships, the official People’s…

The five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council were struggling to agree on a draft resolution endorsing an international bid to end the five-year-old civil war in Syria ahead of…

Syria said on Thursday it would begin requiring visas from Turks entering the country, reversing a six-year agreement with Ankara that allowed visa-free entry to citizens of both countries, after…

Syrian government forces captured a strategic mountain in the country's northwest on Wednesday, inching closer to a rebel-held stronghold in the coastal province of Latakia, state media and a…

Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos has said an agreement signed with Farc rebels on reparations and justice for victims of the country’s civil war is an “important step” towards peace.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said her government will work hard to ensure that the UK remains a member of the European Union, though the key EU principles of freedom of movement and non-…

Republican presidential hopefuls sparred over how to stop the self-styled Islamic State terrorists, in the first debate since attacks in California and Paris.

Malala Yousafzai has condemned a call by US presidential hopeful Donald Trump to ban Muslims from entering the US.

US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday accepted Russia’s longstanding demand that President Bashar Assad’s future be determined by his own people, as Washington and Moscow edged toward…

A new Amnesty International report charges Turkey with abusing refugees before deporting them back to Syria. This comes on the heels of a multibillion dollar aid deal with the EU.

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US Defense Secretary Ash Carter arrived in Baghdad on Wednesday for talks with US military commanders, seeking ways to intensify the fight against Islamic State militants…

A tornado has ripped through Sydney, with one weather station recording the fastest-ever wind speeds in the state of New South Wales. Destructive winds of 213 km/h hit Kurnell, on the southern…

The Saudis love coalitions. The Sunni monarchy had the Americans, the British, the French and sundry other oil importers on their side to drive Saddam’s legions out of Kuwait in 1991.

French police arrested two men and a woman on Tuesday in connection with deadly IS attacks on Paris last month and in January, judiciary officials said.

Egypt said on Monday it has not yet found any sign of terrorism in the deadly Oct. 31 crash of a Russian passenger jet in the Sinai Desert, a preliminary finding that conflicts with Russian, US…

Saudi Arabia plans to forge an alliance of 34 countries to fight terrorism.

The report by Saudi Arabia’s state press agency SPA on Monday noted that “collaboration should be made to…

One person died of hypothermia and two others drowned in a small fishing village south of the capital Manila and millions were without power as Typhoon Melor battered the central…

US Secretary of State John Kerry has opened talks in Moscow with his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to try to narrow broad gaps on ways to end Syria’s civil war and restore stability in eastern…