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Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Thursday no foreign ground troops had been requested from any country and that their deployment would be considered a “hostile act”.

Germany’s Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to join the 60-nation combat mission against the Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq. The request came from France after the IS terror attacks…

Thai police say they were warned by Moscow that 10 Syrians working for the so-called Islamic State militant group entered Thailand in October to target Russians.

Guatemalan prison officials say the number of people killed in a fight between inmates has risen to 16.

Police have not yet been able to retake control of the prison in the town of…

US President Barack Obama met with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the sidelines of the climate summit in Paris on Monday and discussed the Syrian crisis as well as the situation in Ukraine, a…

A court in Beit-ul-Moqaddas has convicted two Israeli youths in the grisly killing last year of 16-year-old Palestinian Mohammed Abu Khdeir, who was burned to death in east Beit-ul-Moqaddas.

Not since Hitler ordered General Walther Wenck to send his nonexistent 12th Army to rescue him from the Red Army in Berlin has a European leader believed in military fantasies as PR Dave Cameron…

British police say two men scaled Buckingham Palace in an apparent protest over fathers’ rights. Britain’s Press Association news agency said the men, Martin Matthews and Bobby Smith, are calling…

US President Barack Obama laid a single rose at a memorial for the victims of the Paris attacks on Monday shortly after arriving in the city for international climate change talks, visiting the…

Turkey promised to help stem the flow of migrants to Europe in return for cash, visas and renewed talks on joining the EU in a deal struck on Sunday that the Turkish prime minister called a “new…

Counting is underway in Burkina Faso where voters are expected to elect a new president and parliament after a year of political turmoil. It is the first election since last year’s popular…

Turkey has flown the body of the Russian pilot killed after his plane was downed over Syria to Ankara, to be met by Russian diplomats.

Lt Col Oleg Peshkov’s coffin was flown to the capital…

Pope Francis has appealed for warring factions in the Central African Republic to lay down their weapons. The country’s sectarian conflict has killed thousands and displaced more than 1 million.…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told a senior Iranian official on Sunday that his adversaries had increased weapon supplies and financial support to insurgents since the start of a major…

Leaders of the European Union aim to sign an agreement with Turkey in Brussels on Sunday that offers Ankara cash and closer ties with the EU in return for Turkish help in stemming the flow of…

Paris will host more than 140 world leaders and negotiators from 196 countries on Monday for crucial climate talks aimed at securing a long-term deal to slow man-made global warming.

Countries across Europe and states across the United States are debating the danger of admitting more refugees from Syria or, indeed, any majority Muslim country where Al-Qaeda or Islamic State…

Some 5,000 people protested in London on Saturday against potential British participation in Syria airstrikes, as political momentum has mounted to broaden the fight against Islamic State…

Pope Francis was due on Sunday to begin the final leg of his first African trip in Central African Republic where he will deliver a message of reconciliation and peace to a nation racked by years…

The Syrian Army said on Saturday that Turkey had recently increased supplies of weapons, ammunition and equipment to terrorists in Syria, and accused its northern neighbor of firing shells at…

Authorities in northern Iraq have announced the discovery of a mass grave near the town of Sinjar containing the remains of more than 120 Yazidis.

This is the sixth time that a burial site…

Five people were killed on Saturday in a double suicide attack by two women in the restive far north of Cameroon, the governor of the region said. “Two women blew themselves up at around 6 p.m.” (…

Thousands of Arab Israelis marched on Saturday in northern Israel to protest against the decision to ban the radical wing of the Islamic Movement, with its leader denouncing the Israeli regime.…

French President Francois Hollande urged UK lawmakers to back an expansion of bombing raids against Islamic State to Syria, wading into British party politics as he seeks to widen the anti-terror…

An unidentified gunman killed a prominent Kurdish lawyer and rights activist on Saturday in what the pro-Kurdish People’s Democratic Party (HDP) called a “planned assassination”, urging people to…