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US Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes said on Monday that there would be more demonstrations of the United States’ commitment to the freedom of navigation in the disputed South China…

Police in Turkey have detained 35 people, including senior bureaucrats and police officers, local media reported. It’s part of a probe targeting supporters of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s arch…

Over the past few months, hundreds of refugees have gone missing from shelters, often before they were registered. Their disappearances are leaving the authorities clueless as to their whereabouts…

A monthly record of 218,394 migrants and refugees reached Europe by sea in October, the UN says, almost as many as the total number of arrivals in 2014.

The number reaching Greece was 210,…

Before Obama’s few dozen brave Spartans put their little bootees on the soil of the tiny bit of Syria that the Kurds hold, not far from Qamishli, they should learn a bit about ISIS (Islamic State…

Azerbaijan’s ruling party has won the parliamentary elections boycotted by the main opposition parties, the country’s electoral commission said.

The ruling New Azerbaijan party had won at…

Crisis talks on refugee inflows between Chancellor Angela Merkel and two top coalition partners have ended. The decision on the controversial transit zones has been postponed.

A Russian cargo plane on Monday brought the first bodies of Russian victims killed in a plane crash in Egypt home to St. Petersburg, a city awash in grief for its missing residents.

Islamic State militants have reportedly captured the Syrian town of Maheen, in central Homs Province, from government forces.

They launched the offensive with two suicide car blasts late on…

Turkey’s AK Party swept to an unexpected victory in elections on Sunday, returning the country to single-party rule in an outcome that will boost the power of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan but…

Police in Nepal have removed protesters from a key border checkpoint to allow trucks to cross over into India. Demonstrators had blocked two of the main border crossings from India, shutting off…

A Palestinian was shot dead by the Israeli army at a border crossing in the northern West Bank on Monday, Israeli police said. A second Palestinian was arrested, according to police, France24…

Germany’s ruling coalition failed at crunch talks Sunday to resolve major differences over the country’s refugee policy as it braces for the biggest influx since World War II.

The spokesman…

Eleven migrants, including six infants, drowned when their boat capsized off the Greek island of Samos, the coastguard said on Sunday. Fifteen others were rescued and a search operation was…

At least 10 people have been killed in a suicide attack on a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Gunmen used a vehicle packed with explosives to blast their way into the Sahafi Hotel compound…

Turkey’s Justice and Development Party (AKP) was poised to win back a clear parliamentary majority on Sunday, according to early results from one of the country’s most critical elections in years…

The heads of the UN and Red Cross have issued a rare joint rebuke to world leaders, accusing them of “disturbing paralysis” in the face of conflict.

“This flouts the very raison d’etre of…

The grand coalition in Berlin and especially the limelight-seeking Christian Social Union in Bavaria should think twice before they damage Angela Merkel: She is the last guarantor of European…

Leaders from South Korea, China and Japan said they pledged at a rare three-way summit on Sunday to boost exchanges and economic cooperation, and repair ties badly strained by history and…

In a statement following the crash of Russia’s Kogalymavia flight 9268, an “Islamic State”-allied militant group based in northern Sinai claimed to have caused the crash in a…

A Russian airliner carrying 224 passengers and crew crashed in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula on Saturday and a security officer at the scene said all on board appeared to have been killed.

The European Union sided with Washington over a US-Chinese patrolling incident in the South China Sea, in a move that may affect Brussels’ discussions with Beijing at next week’s Asia-Europe…

German diplomat Martin Kobler has been appointed special envoy to war-torn Libya. Kobler is expected to rekindle peace talks between rival factions and the internationally recognized government.…

A pre-dawn fire in the southern Philippines raced through public market stalls, killing 15 vendors, including six children, who were sleeping there to be up early for the weekend crowds, police…

Talks on Syria’s civil war have ended in Vienna with diplomats calling for a nationwide truce and the renewal of a UN-led peace process, while the US announced plans to deploy special operations…