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Syrian President Bashar Assad said Russia’s actions have prevented the terrorists from seizing larger areas in his country.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Assad conducted lengthy…

Weeks after the Afghan Taliban’s biggest battlefield success since 2001, dissident commanders unhappy with their new leader Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour are meeting to choose a rival, they…

Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations has accused the US, the UK and France of “usurping” top UN positions.

Vitaly Churkin also slammed the US for abusing its powers as the UN’s host…

Canadian Prime Minister-designate Justin Trudeau has confirmed he will withdraw Canadian fighter jets from the airstrikes against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

He informed US President…

Succession has been a hot topic in Central Asia for decades. Both Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and Uzbek President Islam Karimov are getting old–75 and 77 years old, respectively. Each…

Hundreds of South Koreans have crossed the border to North Korea in a stream of buses for emotional reunions with relatives they have been separated from since the war between the countries more…

Violent clashes in Niger between police and students protesting for better study conditions left at least seven injured and led to 79 arrests, the governor of the capital Niamey said. Hundreds of…

A reconnaissance drone, presumed to be American, has crashed in Yemen where Washington has waged a sustained drone war against Al-Qaeda, a local tribal leader said.

Justin Trudeau is set to become Canada’s new prime minister after his Liberal Party swept to power in general elections, ending nearly a decade of Conservative Party rule and kicking out…

The Syrian pro-Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) plans to open a diplomatic mission in Russia, a move that would anger Turkey due to its classification of the party as a terrorist group, Russia…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has begun an unannounced visit to Israel and Palestine on Tuesday after nearly three weeks of deadly unrest, a UN official said.

“He will arrive today for a…

Libya’s internationally recognized government on Monday rejected a UN proposal for a power-sharing arrangement with rival Islamist-led authorities that was intended to bring peace to the North…

Russia’s military said Monday that its jets hit an Islamic State training camp and command post of Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra Front in Syria as they bombed 49 targets in the latest wave of…

The anti-immigration Swiss People's Party (SVP) won the biggest share of the vote in Sunday's national parliamentary election, keeping pressure on Bern to introduce quotas on people…

Thousands of people marched across the US in support of Palestinians and against Israeli use of force in the ongoing Palestinian-Israeli tensions on Sunday.

Germany’s PEGIDA movement held an anti-migrant rally on Monday a year on from its formation, highlighting a European backlash towards a massive influx that has heaped pressure on German Chancellor…

South Korea, China and Japan have been in talks to prepare a joint declaration that includes calls to resolve the North Korean nuclear issue, government sources said Monday.

The Ukrainian side plans to launch the second phase of weapons withdrawal from the contact line in Donbas on Tuesday, the press center of the military operation has said.

“The second…

Turkey, once a pillar of Mideast stability, looks increasingly like a slow-motion truck crash. What makes this crisis so tragic is that not very long ago, Turkey was entering a new age of social…

One of the suicide bombers who blew themselves up outside Ankara’s main train station on Oct. 10, killing 102 people, has been identified, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Monday.

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At least 40 militants with the so-called Islamic State have been killed in airstrikes in Syria, a British-based monitoring group reports.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said a…

Japan has showcased its naval strength, including Tokyo’s latest helicopter carrier Izumo. The commander of the US Third Fleet, which was recently given a greater role in the western Pacific,…

A roadside bomb killed two paramilitary soldiers and wounded five others in violence-plagued southern Thailand, where the military is fighting Malay Muslim insurgents rebelling against the rule of…

A battalion of 300 Sudanese troops arrived in Yemen's southern port city of Aden on Saturday, military officials said, bolstering Saudi-led Arab forces trying to keep out the Houthis.

The head of Lebanon's Shia movement Hezbollah said on Sunday his group was fighting a "critical and definitive battle" in Syria with a greater presence than ever before.

Seyyed Hassan…