International

There are several nominees for the position. In the post-9/11 world, it used to be incontestable that the prize goes to Al-Qaeda. No more.

That the former head of the CIA, David Petraeus,…

The head of the Palestinian team looking into the death of Yasser Arafat on Tuesday again accused Israel of assassinating the iconic Palestinian leader in a Paris hospital.

His comments…

Trucks carrying wire fencing arrived in the Slovenian village of Veliki Obrez close to the border with Croatia early on Wednesday, a day after the government said it would start erecting barriers…

Britain should be able to reach a deal on reforming its relationship with the European Union which all sides can endorse, even though some of its demands are “difficult”, Finland’s Economy…

A Russian document circulating at the United Nations has proposed a constitutional reform process in Syria, lasting 18 months, to be followed by presidential elections.

The eight-point…

Medical facilities in war-torn Yemen are being “deliberately” attacked, with some 100 incidents reported since the Saudi-led coalition began airstrikes in March, the International Committee of the…

A top Kremlin official has said that Russia’s ban on Egypt-bound flights will likely remain for “several months”. Kremlin chief of staff, Sergei Ivanov, said on Tuesday that a flight ban to Egypt…

Two Republicans vying for the next US presidency on Tuesday slammed Republican frontrunner Donald Trump over his proposal to deport around 11 million undocumented immigrants in the US during a GOP…

Former West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who led the country for eight years at the height of the Cold War, died at the age of 96, his office in Hamburg said on Tuesday.

Schmidt was…

There were some 1.2 million irregular entries to the European Union in the first 10 months of this year, four times more than in the whole of 2014, the bloc’s border agency Frontex said on Tuesday…

Six people were killed and 24 others were injured on Monday in several explosions that rocked the Iraqi capital, a police source said.

Saudi Arabia’s Interior Ministry says gunmen shot at a security patrol in the country’s predominantly Shia eastern region, wounding a policeman and two Indian nationals passing by. Ministry’s…

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday said a new constitution should be created during the next four years under the single-party government of the AK Party.

British Prime Minister David Cameron will send European Council President Donald Tusk a letter laying out EU reform requirements on Tuesday, in a formal beginning of a campaign to renegotiate the…

US Air Force General Charles Brown, commander of the US Air Forces Central Command, said on Tuesday he was impressed with the work the Saudi-led coalition is doing in Yemen.

Brown said the…

The US-led coalition must deploy ground troops to eliminate the Islamic State militants in Syria, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

The new liberal government of Canada announced on Monday it would form a special Cabinet committee to ensure 25,000 Syrian refugees were brought to Canada by the end of the year, including…

My good friend, a university mathematics professor and keen observer of Taiwan politics, pointed out to me that by virtue of the Xi-Ma historic summit having taken place, the goalposts of Taiwan’s…

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi's party said Monday that it has won 56 of the 57 parliamentary seats from Myanmar's main city of Yangon, a result that portends a massive sweep in historic…

Two American military personnel and one South African were killed when a Jordanian officer went on a shooting spree on Monday at a U.S.-funded security training facility near Amman, Jordan's…

Three days after a massive mudflow and flood caused by ruptured dams at an iron ore mine, Brazilian authorities are still struggling to determine a cause or even recover the bodies of as many as…

Croatia’s conservative opposition looked set to return to power after narrowly winning a general election, preliminary results showed on Monday. “We won the parliamentary elections ... The victory…

Dozens of Taliban fighters were killed in a battle between the insurgents loyal to Taliban chief Mullah Mansoor and a splinter group.

The breakaway faction is supported by Islamic State”…

Turkish security forces say they killed at least 13 militants with the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, during operations in southeastern Turkey on Saturday.

Houthi forces retook positions in southern Yemen to advance on second city Aden, military sources said on Sunday as a landmine blast killed 16 soldiers east of Sana›a.

The Houthis regained…