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The Islamic State terrorist group executed three people in Syria’s ancient city of Palmyra by binding them to three historic columns and blowing them up, a monitoring group said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s political acumen is beyond dispute. It is already working wonders to spin the potential failure of his Justice and Development Party (…

Three US women claim a Saudi prince assaulted them and held them captive during three days of drug-fueled partying at a Beverly Hills mansion. The unidentified women, who have filed a civil suit…

US President Barack Obama will travel to Turkey, the Philippines and Malaysia over a nine-day stretch next month to meet with world leaders at three summits. The White House says Obama will attend…

Germany plans to send police to Slovenia to assist authorities, a German newspaper has reported.

Slovenia is struggling to cope with refugees as Croatia diverts the flow of migrants to its…

Russian President Vladimir Putin held phone talks on Monday with King Salman of Saudi Arabia focused on seeking a solution to the Syria crisis, the Kremlin said.

The call was a Saudi…

Beijing has strongly criticized the sailing of a US Navy warship close to its manmade islands in the South China Sea, saying the move posed a “threat to China’s sovereignty”.

The Islamic State has claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at a Shia mosque in Saudi Arabia’s Najran city in which at least one person was killed and 16 others were injured.

Saudi…

Turkish police detained about 30 people on Tuesday in a raid against suspected Islamic State militants in the central city of Konya.

The sweep comes a day after police launched a series of…

Muslim religious officials in occupied East Beit-ul-Moqaddas say Israeli police have blocked them from installing security cameras at Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, despite a new agreement to place the…

A suicide bomber killed seven people, including two police, in an attack on a Shi’ite Muslim procession on Monday in a northern Baghdad neighborhood, police and medical sources said.

German Defense Minisiter Ursula von der Leyen is due to meet with her Iraqi counterpart to discuss ways to remedy the masses of people fleeing the country. Ahead of her visit, she urged unity…

A major earthquake struck the remote Afghan northeast on Monday, killing at least 135 people in Afghanistan and nearby northern Pakistan and sending shock waves as far as New Delhi, officials said…

Poland’s conservative opposition Law and Justice party has won parliamentary elections, consolidating the country’s rightwing shift.

Exit polls suggest it has enough seats to govern alone,…

Two Turkish policemen and four Islamic State militants were killed in a firefight after police raided a house in Turkey’s southeast early on Monday, security sources said.

The clashes in…

Afghanistan’s armed forces have killed at least 23 Taliban members during a military operation in the northern Kunduz Province, local media reported Monday, citing officials.

According to…

The EU pledged on Monday to help set up 100,000 places in reception centers along the migrant route through the Balkans, in a bid to defuse rising tensions on its eastern frontier over how to deal…

An Israeli settler shot and critically wounded a young Palestinian man after he allegedly attempted to attack him between the West Bank village of Sair and the illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc…

A former TV comedian with no experience in government has won the runoff vote in Guatemala’s presidential election. Jimmy Morales polled 72% against the former first lady, Sandra Torres, who is…

China, Japan and South Korea will hold a summit in South Korea when Chinese Premier Li Keqiang visits the country from Oct. 31-Nov. 2, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Monday, the first leaders’…

The renewed conflict in Turkey’s predominantly Kurdish southeast has wreaked havoc on the schooling system in the region.

Many teachers from western Turkey, appointed to schools in the…

The Ukrainian military shelled the territory controlled by the Donetsk People’s Republic [DPR] 23 times over the past twenty-four hours, the DPR Defense Ministry said on Sunday.

Palestinian officials reacted warily on Sunday to what US Secretary of State John Kerry hailed as Jordan’s “excellent suggestion” to calm Israeli-Palestinian violence by putting a sensitive Beit-…

A group of Egyptian and foreign experts launched Sunday a new bid to unravel the “secrets” of the pyramids, including a search for hidden chambers inside four famed pharaonic monuments.

Voters in Argentina headed to the polls Sunday to choose their next president in an election that will bring an end to 12 years of government under couple Nestor and Cristina Kirchner.

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