International

A cross-party campaign that will lead the fight for Britain to remain in the European Union ahead of a referendum due by 2017 is to launch on Monday.

The “Britain Stronger in Europe”…

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Saudi Arabia’s defense minister have agreed that Moscow and Riyadh should pursue common goals in Syria, including national reconciliation and combating…

Israeli forces have shot more than 1,300 Palestinians with live and rubber-coated bullets since the beginning of this month, the Palestinian Authority Ministry of Health said Sunday.

At…

Political opponents and thousands of angry protesters expressed anger on Sunday at President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after Turkey’s worst-ever terrorist attacks and as the country hurtled toward a…

Has the world become a more dangerous place to live in? With the rise of IS, the ongoing civil war in Syria, the deteriorating situation in Libya and the airstrikes in Yemen, you might be inclined…

Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif says his country is engaged in fresh efforts to revive stalled peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban.

The Iraqi air force on Sunday claimed it had hit the convoy of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in an airstrike in the western Anbar Province, close to the Syrian border. The…

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that Moscow would not deploy ground troops to Syria, where it has been conducting airstrikes against Islamic State targets.

Two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Cameroon’s Far North Region early on Sunday, killing 11 people, three military sources told Reuters. “We have about 11 dead and 10 injured,” said a senior…

South Africa plans to leave the International Criminal Court, a deputy minister said on Sunday, as the government faces criticism for ignoring a court order to arrest Sudan’s president earlier…

An alleged suicide bomb attack on a convoy of foreign troops took place on Sunday morning in the Afghan capital.

“It was a suicide bombing against a foreign forces convoy in a crowded part…

A Palestinian woman who was five-months pregnant and her three-year-old daughter have been killed in an Israeli airstrike east of Gaza City.

Medical sources in the besieged territory said…

Thousands of Lebanese rallied near the presidential palace on Sunday in a show of support for Christian politician Michel Aoun, pressing their demand for him to fill the vacant presidency.

The Syrian Army has advanced in western Syria after heavy Russian airstrikes in areas around the main highway running through major cities, a group monitoring the war said on Sunday.

Turkey has begun three days of mourning after deadly explosions killed and wounded scores of people at a peace rally in the capital, Ankara. The attack threatens to exacerbate the country’s ethnic…

It is a surreal experience to look back through old newspapers published in India and Pakistan. Dog-eared pages from the past have headlines which echo today’s events.

Peace is always about…

Hundreds of thousands of people rallied Saturday in the German capital against the massive free-trade accord being negotiated by the European Union and the United States.

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has appointed a team of investigators to look into the circumstances leading to the Taliban’s brief capture of the northern city of Kunduz as well as a U.S. airstrike…

The top United Nations aid official has called for a swift investigation of a suspected Saudi-led coalition air strike that killed dozens of people at a wedding party in Yemen.

Two explosions at a road junction in the center of the Turkish capital Ankara have killed at least 86 people and injured nearly 200 others, the country’s health minister said.

The first…

President George W. Bush (and his successor Barack Obama) have lamented “collateral damage” in Afghanistan and Iraq–and Jeb Bush shrugs off a domestic mass shooting as “stuff happens”–…

A week of deadly violence between Israelis and Palestinians spread to the Gaza Strip on Friday, with Israeli troops killing six Palestinians in clashes on the border and Hamas, which controls the…

North Korea marked the 70th anniversary of its ruling Workers’ Party on Saturday with a massive military parade overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, who said his country was ready to fight any war…

France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Britain and the US have endorsed a national unity government in Libya, as proposed by the UN, to end the conflict between the two rival governments in the war-torn…

The Kremlin does not agree with the US president who says Russia is trying to assume leadership through its anti-terrorist operation in Syria, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on…