International

In its deadliest battle ever, the United Arab Emirates forces have lost at least 45 soldiers fighting among the Saudi-led coalition engaged in Yemen, after Houthi rebels reportedly fired a rocket…

Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Sistani calls for prosecution of senior officials suspected of corruption and for the return of stolen funds.

Iraq’s leading Shia cleric  has called for the …

Russian president says his Syrian counterpart is ready to hold elections and allow opposition to share power.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Syria’s Bashar al-Assad is ready…

A recent visit to Istanbul coincided with “Victory Day”, which marks the successful conclusion of the final battle of the Greco-Turkish wars, which Turkey calls its War of Independence.

Shortly after Austrian officials announced that they would take in migrants, thousands of people arrived in the country Saturday.

Hungary, which had spent days stopping migrants from…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday criticized western countries for not responding to the refugee crisis in Europe, saying that the West has turned the Mediterranean into a…

China’s military reforms will be difficult and risky as they require a fundamental change in thinking and could affect special interest groups, the armed forces official paper said on Friday…

Saudi King Salman visits Washington this week amid disagreement between the United States and Saudi Arabia on a broad range of issues.

At least 45 African Union and Somali national army forces died in an al-Shabab raid on their base in southern Somalia on Tuesday, western sources told CNN. More than 100 troops were unaccounted…

Former Argentine President Carlos Menem is refusing to testify in a trial in which he is accused of derailing the investigation into the South American nation’s worst terrorist attack. Menem is…

The Islamic State group has blown up three of the famed tower tombs of Syria’s ancient desert city of Palmyra, antiquities department chief, Maamoun Abdelkarim, said on Friday.

“They…

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban insisted Thursday the migrant crisis was a German problem, not a European one as he defended his government’s handling of thousands of refugees flooding into…

Guatemala’s newly sworn-in president demanded that all top government officials submit their resignations and promised an honest and inclusive administration amid the surprise resignation and…

Some 15 million Moroccans go to the polls Friday for local elections seen as a gauge of the popularity of the government of Abdelilah Benkirane a year ahead of a general election.

Gaza could be “uninhabitable” in less than five years if current economic trends continue, according to a new United Nations report.

The report released on Tuesday by the UN Conference…

Witnesses said 26 people, including children, were killed in northeastern Borno State in Nigeria by attackers on horseback believed to be Boko Haram extremists. Ali Abdulqasim said his home…

Recent news accounts announce with great fanfare that Japan’s Ministry of Defense is asking for a boost in spending, primarily to fortify the country’s outlying island chain in the East China…

Pakistani intelligence officials said a suspected US drone strike targeting a militant hideout killed six men in a northwestern tribal region along Afghan border. The two officials say the…

A Congo militia leader known as The Terminator has pleaded innocent to 18 charges, including murder, rape and sexual slavery, as his long-awaited trial started at the International…

The Greek government was set to hold talks Wednesday on the huge numbers of migrants landing on its shores, as 4,300 more people arrived in Athens overnight, most of them Syrian refugees.

A total of 1,325 people were killed in terrorist attacks and armed conflict in Iraq in August, according to the United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq.

At least ten people were killed and scores wounded when a car bomb exploded in the Syrian city of Latakia on Wednesday, state television said, in a rare attack in a coastal stronghold of President…

Guatemala’s Congress on Tuesday voted unanimously to strip President Otto Perez of immunity, paving the way for prosecutors to charge him in a graft scandal that could lead to his ouster.

Submerged countries, abandoned cities and floods of refugees await the world barring urgent action on climate change, US President Barack Obama warned on Monday, painting a doomsday scenario as he…

Hundreds of angry migrants demonstrated outside Budapest’s Eastern Railway Terminus on Tuesday demanding they be allowed to travel on to Germany, as European Union asylum rules came close to…