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Moscow has indicated Monday that the Russian fighter jet that violated Turkish airspace did so because of “bad weather conditions”.

A small Dutch freight ship sank early Tuesday morning after colliding with a tanker in the North Sea off the Belgian coast, the Netherlands’ coast guard said. All aboard were saved. Coast Guard…

With Russian planes targeting the self-styled Islamic State in Syria and the US-led coalition strikes, too, targeting their hideouts, the region–Syria in specific and the Middle East in general–…

Pope Francis told a Roman Catholic meeting on family issues on Monday that the church should not be a stuffy “museum of memories” but have the courage to change if that was what God wanted.

The Coast Guard said Monday that a US cargo ship carrying 33 people that has been missing since it encountered high winds and heavy seas from Hurricane Joaquin sank, but that planes and ships will…

On Dec. 26, 2009, a US Special Operations team flew from Kabul to Ghazi Khan Village in the Narang district of Kunar Province. They attacked three houses, where they killed two adults and eight…

Two suicide bombings have left six people dead in Niger, according to a humanitarian worker. “There were 10 deaths in total: a policeman, five civilians and the four suicide-bombers,” said the…

Turkish jets carried out airstrikes early Sunday on several targets in Turkey and northern Iraq. According to a statement issued by the Turkish General Staff, nine F-16 fighter jets hit…

Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres on Sunday demanded an independent international inquiry into a suspected US airstrike that killed 22 people in an Afghan hospital it runs, branding the…

Islamic State militants in northern Syria have blown up another monument in the ancient city of Palmyra, officials and local sources say.

The Arch of Triumph was "pulverized" by the…

A teenager has been killed and more than 200 Palestinians injured as clashes with Israeli forces and settlers continued in the occupied West Bank.

The violence followed Israel’s decision to…

British Prime Minister David Cameron urged Middle East ally Saudi Arabia on Sunday not to go ahead with the execution of a Shia Muslim sentenced to death over his role in anti-government protests…

The number of refugees and migrants expected to arrive in Germany by the end of 2015 has soared to 1.5 million, according to Bild newspaper, citing a government report.

This is while German…

Flash floods caused by torrential rain along part of the French Riviera killed at least 13 people and left several others missing, officials said Sunday.

A Jordanian parliament member says his son carried out a suicide bombing in Iraq just three months after the family failed to prevent him from joining the IS. Parliamentarian Mazen Dalaeen says…

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has promised to use his influence in Ukraine’s eastern Donbass region to ensure progress in the Ukraine conflict’s Minsk peace process, Kremlin’s spokesman said…

Israeli forces stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and evicted dozens of Palestinians from its southern mosque on Saturday evening following a stabbing attack in East Beit-ul-Moqaddas’s Old City…

The Russian Air Force has conducted more than 60 flights and bombed over 50 Islamic State targets in three days, according to Russia’s top armed forces official. He added the strikes have…

The gunman who killed nine people in a shooting rampage at a college in the US state Oregon killed himself as police arrived, officials have said.

At a news conference in Roseburg, they…

Two suicide bombers, one of them driving an explosives-laden vehicle, have blown themselves up in northwestern Baghdad, killing at least 24 people, police said.

Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres denied that Taliban fighters were firing from its hospital at Afghan and NATO forces before a suspected US airstrike killed at least 19 people in a…

Bombing Islamic State for a year will cost Canada half a billion dollars. Canada previously spent at least $18 billion in its war in Afghanistan. The seven-month bombing of Libya in 2011 cost…

Greece must implement its international bailout program to achieve its main aim of regaining access to market financing and ending intrusive external supervision, re-elected leftist Prime Minister…

Ukrainian army and pro-Russian rebels have begun pulling back weapons from a buffer zone in eastern Ukraine following a fresh agreement in Paris.

Eurotunnel and Eurostar passenger and freight services have resumed with delays after 120 migrants broke into the Calais terminal overnight.

Trains were running through just one of the two…