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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged world leaders on Saturday to prioritize the fight against terrorism as they gathered for a summit in southwestern Turkey, saying the Paris attacks…

Leaders of Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad and dozens of Syrian groups have denounced the Paris assaults as “against human values”, expressing their deepest condolences to the people of France.

The series of coordinated attacks on multiple civilian locations in Paris on Friday night has long been the stuff of nightmares for European security officials.

Ever since the Mumbai…

The Eiffel Tower stood dark in a symbol of mourning Saturday night as France struggled to absorb the deadliest violence on its soil since World War II: coordinated gun-and-suicide bombing attacks…

The bodies of an estimated 80 Yazidi women who were executed by IS were found in a mass grave on the edge of the city of Sinjar in Iraq on Saturday, according to local reports. Kurdish forces…

A high-speed TGV train has derailed during a test run near the eastern French city of Strasbourg, on a new Paris-Strasbourg line, killing at least 10 people, officials say. The train was carrying…

Russia has banned EgyptAir from flying to the country, one of Moscow's airports and the company said in a statement, with Russian flights between the two already suspended following the Sinai…

The British and Indian prime ministers took to the stage at a packed Wembley Stadium in London. The leaders sought to emphasize the countries' close cultural and economic ties.

Terror unleashed on Paris Friday night and early Saturday plunged not only France but entire Europe into turmoil and horror.

A magnitude-7 earthquake has struck off Japan’s southwestern coast, triggering a small tsunami. The Japan Meteorological Agency said the tsunami was registered on the southern Nakanoshima Island,…

At least 65 Afghan soldiers have defected to the Taliban, taking their weapons and equipment with them and 88 have been killed in days of heavy fighting in the volatile southern province of…

Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy party has won a majority in Myanmar’s Parliament, official results have said, which will now be able to choose the country’s next president.

Russia’s state aviation agency on Friday banned Egypt’s national carrier from flying to Russia, a move that follows the suspension of all Russian flights to Egypt after a deadly crash.

The…

US Secretary of State John Kerry is often perceived as one of the “good guys”, the less hawkish of top American officials, who does not simply promote and defend his country’s military adventurism…

An undercover Israeli military unit has killed a 28-year-old Palestinian man while storming the al-Ahli hospital in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron.

The US military launched an air strike in Syria targeting IS fighter Mohammed Emwazi - better known as “Jihadi John”–who participated in the beheading videos of two American journalists and the…

Kurdish peshmerga forces backed by US airstrikes seized the Iraqi town of Sinjar from Islamic State on Friday, a Reuters witness said, in one of the most significant counter-attacks since the…

On Wednesday, thousands of Afghan protesters poured on to the streets of Kabul and gathered at Pashtunistan Square just outside the Presidential Palace.

Carrying the coffins of seven…

The party of democracy champion Aung San Suu Kyi has won a majority in Myanmar’s Parliament, the election commission said on Friday, giving it enough seats to elect its chosen candidate to the…

EU leaders struck an aid-for-cooperation deal with Africa and proposed a summit this year with Turkey in a two-front push with wary partners to tackle an unprecedented migrant crisis.

Two US B-52 bomber planes have flown near artificial islands built by China in disputed areas of the South China Sea, the Pentagon has said.

Their mission continued despite being warned by…

A national day of mourning will be held Friday after two suicide bombers on motorcycles killed at least 43 people and wounded more than 200 others in a predominantly Shia area of southern…

The outgoing United Nations envoy to Libya, Bernardino Leon of Spain, on Thursday said he would seek a “full clarification” of a newspaper report that the UAE was shipping arms to Libyan factions…

Cartoonists working for the French magazine Charlie Hebdo have nothing in common with human morals, Russia’s special envoy for human rights, Konstantin Dolgov, tweeted on Thursday. The satirical…

Turkish security forces staged a broad anti-terror operation in Istanbul on Friday morning, police sources have said. Teams from the Anti-Terror Branch Directorate, supported by special forces,…