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In his first comments since Syrian opposition and militant groups agreed on a common position in international talks with the Syrian government, President Bashar al-Assad said on Friday…

For the first time in more than 50 years, the United States and Cuba will reestablish a direct postal service, the two countries announced on Friday.

Both nations broke off direct postal…

Every day, people flee from the regions that Islamic State militant group has declared as its territory. The extremists have problems accepting this, as the fact of people leaving the caliphate…

An eyewitness said 21 people have been found shot dead in a neighborhood of Burundi’s capital Bujumbura after the government said an unidentified group carried out coordinated attacks on three…

All four gunmen involved in a deadly attack on a foreign guesthouse near the Spanish Embassy in Kabul have been killed, Afghan officials say.

They say at least four Afghan policemen and two…

Rival parliaments have agreed to sign a UN-backed deal next week to end chaotic fighting. Both sides want a national unity government to confront the rise of militias.

A United Nations…

Saudi Arabia is going to the polls in unprecedented municipal elections in which women can cast a ballot for the first time.

Women are also standing as candidates, another first, despite…

Authorities are searching for a man from the German town of Dinslaken, who is said to have been close with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the purported mastermind of the Paris attacks.

Huseyin D. from…

The United States has agreed with Singapore on a first deployment of the US P8 Poseidon spy plane in Singapore this month, in a fresh response to China over its pursuit of territorial claims in…

An Air France flight from San Francisco to Paris has been diverted to Montreal after an unspecified anonymous threat, and all passengers landed and disembarked safely.

The airline said in a…

Tens of thousands of Roman Catholics backed up for blocks at the Vatican on Tuesday for the strictest security checks in living memory as Pope Francis began a Holy Year with a call to set aside “…

Turkey has detained 18 people, including senior police officers on Tuesday, in an investigation of alleged supporters within the police force of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s foe, Muslim cleric…

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has called for a halt to Muslims entering the US, in the wake of the deadly California shootings. In a campaign statement, he said a “total and…

Syria’s fragmented opposition is due to meet in Riyadh to unify ahead of possible peace talks.

The meeting, bringing together armed and political factions, aims to create a common position…

The couple suspected of carrying out last week’s massacre in San Bernardino, California, is believed to have practiced shooting in the days before. The FBI believes the pair was radicalized.

Six Afghan children drowned after a rubber dinghy carrying migrants to Greece sank off Turkey’s Aegean coast on Tuesday, the state-run news agency reported.

Germany has registered 964,574 new asylum-seekers in the first 11 months of the year, putting it on course for more than a million in 2015.

The number of migrants arriving has not slowed…

US President Barack Obama has vowed to do everything possible to tackle a “new phase” of terrorism. Americans have been left shaken after 14 people were gunned down in San Bernardino.

The opposition in Venezuela has won a majority of seats in the National Assembly, overturning nearly two decades of dominance by the Socialists of President Nicolas Maduro.

France’s far-right National Front appears to have made big gains in the first round of regional elections, estimates show. They put the FN ahead in at least six of 13 regions in mainland France,…

German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel urged Saudi Arabia on Sunday to stop supporting religious radicals, amid growing concern among some lawmakers in Berlin about the funding of militant mosques…

At least 32 Islamic State fighters were killed and 40 more wounded in Syria’s Raqqa Province on Sunday, in a series of airstrikes believed to be carried out by a US-led coalition targeting the…

The Red Cross has said it is trying to establish relations with Islamic State to provide aid to people in its territory. The disclosure comes ahead of an emergency meeting being held in Geneva,…

NATO has ruled out sending ground troops to fight against Islamic State militants in Syria, NATO General-Secretary Jens Stoltenberg told a Swiss newspaper, stressing the need to bolster local…

Warring Libyan factions meeting in Tunisia said Sunday they had reached an agreement to be approved by rival parliaments on ending the political deadlock that has plagued the country since Muammar…