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US President Barack Obama is not doing all he can to stop gun violence, some allies say.

The president expressed disgust and frustration after Thursday’s mass shooting in Roseburg, Oregon,…

Russian jets have performed 14 combat flights, conducting six pinpoint airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria on Friday, according to Russia’s Defense Ministry.

 “During the…

Unidentified assailants on Saturday shot and killed a Japanese man in northern Bangladesh, police said, the second foreigner in a week to be gunned down in the South Asian country.

The…

The gunman behind the latest mass shooting in the US had hoarded an arsenal of weapons and was enrolled in the class where the fatal shootings occurred, authorities have said.

The names of…

Doctors Without Borders (MSF) says at least nine of its staff have been killed in an overnight bombing of a hospital in the embattled Afghan city of Kunduz.

Another 37 people were wounded…

Two bomb blasts have rocked the outskirts of the Nigerian capital Abuja, including one target previously attacked by Boko Haram, the country’s National Emergency Management Agency has said.

NATO launches its biggest military exercise since 2002 on Saturday, putting 36,000 alliance soldiers through their paces in Italy, Spain and Portugal to boost preparedness against the backdrop of…

A 15-year-old British boy has been given a life sentence for his role in plotting a terror attack in Australia. Together with an accomplice in Australia, the teenager worked as an “organizer and…

At least 17 members of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) have been killed in a Turkish military assault on the city of Silvan, which has a mainly Kurdish population, reports say.

The…

India delivered a blunt response Thursday to a peace proposal from Pakistan at the annual gathering of world leaders at the UN: “Give up terrorism” and we can talk.

Pakistani Prime Minister…

A suspect believed to be responsible for a series of bombings in China this week that killed 10 people and injured 51 was himself killed at the scene, the official Xinhua news agency said on its…

It has been wondrous to behold the massive outpouring of sympathy towards refugees in Europe. Every “refugees welcome” placard and act of solidarity has restored my faith a little in our human…

North Korea’s foreign minister told the United Nations on Thursday that a peace treaty was urgently needed to prevent a repeat of the military standoff that rattled Asia two months ago, World…

Hungary’s prime minister says the migrants arriving in Europe are mostly young men who “look more like an army than asylum seekers.” Viktor Orban said Friday that while he did not reject the right…

Western governments have been stopped in their tracks with plans for a UN inquiry into the Yemen war dropped.

A number of western countries had instructed the United Nations high…

At least 11 people have died after a US Hercules aircraft crashed at an airport in Afghanistan, the US military says.

The C-130 plane crashed at around midnight local time (19:30 GMT…

US President Barack Obama voiced his anger and sadness after the country’s latest deadly shooting, this time at an Oregon community college, and made another impassioned plea for gun control…

Thousands of Palestinians have attended protests marking the 15th anniversary of the killing of unarmed demonstrators by Israeli police in October 2000.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his French counterpart François Hollande will hold talks amid mounting tensions over Russian strikes in Syria.

Putin and Hollande’s tête-à-tête comes a…

The US Senate on Wednesday passed legislation to keep the federal government operating just hours before agency funding runs out with the start of a new fiscal year on Thursday.

Russia said it launched airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria on Wednesday after President Vladimir Putin secured his parliament’s unanimous backing to intervene to prop up the Kremlin’s…

A record number of refugees have crossed the Mediterranean into Europe this year, breaching the half million mark for the past nine months, according to the International Organization for…

A US judge has dismissed claims against Saudi Arabia by families of victims of the September 11, 2001, attacks, who accused the country of providing material support to Al-Qaeda.

NATO said Wednesday its special forces were supporting Afghan troops in Kunduz after Taliban insurgents seized the city, fought off a counter-attack and advanced on the airport to shore up their…

Sixteen Turkish workers kidnapped from a construction site in Baghdad and held for nearly a month were released on Wednesday, Turkey’s prime minister and Iraqi officials said.

Prime…