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US President Barack Obama is being criticized on all sides for whatever he does these days in the Middle East. And well he might, since there is probably nothing he can do to become the deciding…

A cache of secret military documents about the US military's assassination program in Afghanistan, Somalia and Yemen show the extent to which US President Barack Obama has employed drone strikes…

US President Barack Obama has announced plans to extend the country's military role in Afghanistan and keep the current force of 9,800 troops through most of 2016, amid a surge in Taliban attacks…

Russian jets hit 40 Islamic State targets in new strikes in Syria, destroying several ammunition depots and training camps, the defense ministry said on Wednesday.

Hundreds of cars, buses and trucks have been stuck between the Afghan cities of Kabul and Kandahar since the Taliban blocked the main highway south of the capital on Monday.

The security…

The joke typically goes that if you want to know what British foreign policy is, ask the US State Department. The “special relationship” between both countries has long been viewed through this…

Three bomb blasts in as many minutes exploded in Maiduguri, killing at least seven people, witnesses and the army said Wednesday from the northeastern city that is the birthplace of the Boko Haram…

China has not militarized the South China Sea, but certain countries, which keep flexing their muscles, should stop hyping up the issue, China’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

The Afghan Taliban have claimed withdrawal from the center of the northern city of Kunduz after weeks of intense fighting against the Afghan troops backed by US airstrikes in the city.

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The Russian Foreign Ministry has questioned the effectiveness of the US-led yearlong air campaign in Syria, saying it is unclear “why the results of so many combat sorties are so insignificant”.…

Israel’s security Cabinet has approved a series of new measures designed to combat spiraling Israeli-Palestinian violence after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to take “aggressive steps”…

Three top Turkish police officials were sacked on Wednesday over the weekend’s twin blasts in Ankara, as the under-fire president paid homage to the 97 killed in the country’s bloodiest attacks.…

Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 was hit and downed by a Russian-made surface-to-air BUK missile over eastern Ukraine last year, the Dutch Safety Board said.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended her open-door policy for refugees, highlighting the fact that Germany is capable of managing the refugee influx without imposing any new taxes or tax…

Four score and a dozen years ago, when Mustafa Kemal Ataturk forged a new republic from the detritus of a fallen empire, he chose as its capital not the great, storied metropolis of Constantinople…

Police say a landslide has hit three makeshift homes in a slum in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi, killing 13 people. Senior police officer Javed Jaskani says the incident took place early Tuesday…

A series of stabbing attacks have resulted in the deaths of three alleged Palestinian attackers and resulted in several more Israelis and Palestinians being injured as violence intensifies in…

A counter-terrorist operation is being conducted in Dagestan’s Tsumadinsky district in south Russia, a spokesperson for operational headquarters of the National Anti-Terrorism Committee…

Turkey’s government said on Monday Islamic State was the prime suspect in suicide bombings that killed at least 97 people in Ankara.

The father of three men wounded in the blasts said one…

After three years of 24-hour watch in hope of nabbing WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at the Ecuadorian Embassy, London’s police have ended the operation.

The police said it would now use…

The European Union has agreed to suspend sanctions against the government of Belarussian strongman Alexander Lukashenko after he won a fifth term as president, even though observers said the poll…

The leader of Al-Qaeda offshoot Al-Nusra Front, a terrorist group fighting in Syria, has called for increased attacks against civilians belonging to Syria’s Alawite…

Russian police arrested a group of people they said were planning a terror attack on Moscow, the country's anti-terrorism committee said, without giving details about the group's motives.

This came two days after Pyongyang unveiled a new and bigger intercontinental ballistic missile, called KN-08, during a military parade on Saturday to mark the 70th anniversary…

President Alexander Lukashenko has been reelected for a fifth term, officials in Belarus said on Monday, following a campaign boycotted by the opposition. Lidia Yermoshina, chairwoman of the…