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Islamic State militants moved on Saturday to stamp out dissent in a remote western Iraqi town, detaining at least 70 and tying dozens of residents, including tribal leaders, to streetlight poles…

An Afghan official said government forces have regained control of a strategic district in southern Helmand Province that the Taliban militants had seized.

A razor-wire barrier along Hungary’s border with non-EU member Serbia, aimed at keeping out migrants, has been completed, the Hungarian Defense Ministry said on Saturday.

“Two days before…

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A Cairo court sentenced three Al Jazeera journalists to three years in jail on Saturday after finding them guilty of "aiding a terrorist organization."

Egyptian Baher Mohamed, Canadian…

Thai police on Saturday arrested a suspect in a bombing that killed 20 people and wounded scores more at a shrine in Bangkok this month, authorities said.

The man, also suspected of…

An explosion in Bahrain killed one police officer and wounded seven others, among them a child, according to the country's interior ministry. No group claimed responsibility for the blast.

The United Nations said on Saturday that “much more is required” to prevent the deaths of migrants fleeing to Europe after hundreds were reported dead in recent days.

Defying authorities, tens of thousands of Malaysians wearing yellow T-shirts and blowing horns gathered Saturday in Kuala Lumpur for a major rally to demand the resignation of embattled Prime…

Seven workers were killed and two injured after exposure to poisonous gases at a paper mill in central China, authorities said Saturday, in China’s latest deadly accident involving dangerous…

At least 25 people, including 22 members of an anti-Taliban militia force and three Afghan tribal elders were killed in an attack carried out by the Taliban in northwestern Faryab Province, Afghan…

Like most public political dramas across the Middle East, the current events in Lebanon revolving around uncollected garbage are really about several different issues that have merged into one.

Turkish planes for the first time joined raids by the US-led coalition against Islamic State positions in Syria, the Turkish Foreign Ministry said Saturday.

“Our fighter planes ... along…

Boko Haram extremists killed 28 people during attacks on remote villages in northeast Nigeria, members of a civilian defense group said on Friday.

A total of 24 people were killed in an…

US President Barack Obama appointed a career diplomat to the newly created post of hostage envoy Friday as part of an effort to overhaul the way the government handles US citizens taken…

Venezuela and Colombia recalled their ambassadors amid a dispute over the closure of a major border crossing. Hundreds of Colombians have been deported under a Caracas plan to curb crime along the…

An Islamic State suicide bomber killed two Iraqi Army generals on Thursday as they led forces against IS group positions in the turbulent Anbar Province west of Baghdad, military officials said.…

UNICEF said on Friday an armed militia group in Central African Republic has released 163 children, some of thousands who have been conscripted in jobs like cooks, messengers and…

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called this week’s accord between the rival Koreas “a landmark occasion” paving the way for defused military tension and improved ties, but said it was the strength…

Dozens of refugees, most likely fleeing war-ravaged Syria, died of suffocation inside an abandoned truck on an Austrian highway, authorities said, while hundreds of people were feared dead on…

Tens of thousands of Guatemalans took to the streets on Thursday to demand the resignation of President Otto Perez, who has refused to quit in the face of accusations by his attorney general that…

The British government used the “civilizing” narrative to deny sovereignty, justify the colonization process and build an empire and defended the fallacy of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq to…

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto appointed seven new ministers Thursday in a cabinet reshuffle, including a new foreign minister, in a mid-term shakeup of his administration. It was the first…

US President Barack Obama on Wednesday apologized to Tokyo after whistleblower website WikiLeaks claimed Washington had spied on Japanese politicians, a government spokesman said.

Hungary's migrant crisis escalated Wednesday as police fired teargas at its main processing centre and the government announced it was sending 2,000 "border hunters" to stem the flow of record…