International

The United States is providing a thinly-veiled cover virtually legitimizing the use of cluster bombs, banned by an international convention, by Saudi Arabia and its allies in their heavy fighting…

The Guatemalan Supreme Court on Tuesday approved a request by the country’s attorney general to impeach President Otto Perez over his suspected involvement in a racket to siphon customs revenue…

A shooting in the northern French town of Roye left four people dead and three seriously injured on Tuesday, including two policemen. French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said those killed “…

South Korea is willing to discuss North Korea’s demand for an end to sanctions imposed over a 2010 naval attack, the South said on Wednesday, a day after the rivals struck a landmark pact that…

Yemeni forces allied to the Houthis fired a ballistic missile toward southern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, a local TV channel said, as combat between the kingdom and Houthi forces has intensified.…

Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad expressed “strong confidence” on Tuesday that Russia will continue supporting his government, speaking in an interview with Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television…

Kurdish forces attacked Islamic State insurgents in a cluster of villages in Iraq’s northern province of Kirkuk on Wednesday, bent on securing territory they have gained in the course of pushing…

Fresh communal clashes erupted in western India on Wednesday as police and paramilitary forces tried to quell riots led by members of a farming caste demanding government benefits.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted the Egyptian president, the Jordanian king and the crown prince of Abu Dhabi in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss the Syrian crisis and take part in a…

A child bomber killed up to six people Tuesday outside a bus station in the heartland of the Boko Haram insurgency in northeastern Nigeria.

Witnesses reported seeing a "young girl" trying…

At least 14 suspected members of a cell that recruited fighters for the Islamic State militant group in Iraq and Syria were arrested Tuesday in a joint operation in Morocco and Spain, authorities…

A series of explosions at a gas terminal in the western Afghan city of Herat killed 10 children and an adult, a hospital official said.

Those killed lived in a camp for displaced people,…

For many centuries, Europe was a continent plagued by wars, famines and poverty. Millions of Europeans were driven to emigrate by economic and social deprivation. They sailed across the Atlantic…

Singapore’s President Tony Tan dissolved Singapore’s Parliament on Tuesday at the request of Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who is seeking a fresh mandate from voters worried over immigration and…

The US announced the deployment of advanced F-22 fighter aircrafts to Europe. It said the move is to support allies concerned over the conflict in Ukraine. Officials said the jets’ ability to…

North and South Korea agreed early on Tuesday to end a military standoff that sparked an exchange of artillery fire and had ratcheted up tension on one of the world’s most heavily-fortified…

The idea of partition for Iraq would never be agreed by Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said, stressing that this kind of “state structure manipulation” is obsolete and Iraqis…

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was appointed to form an interim government on Tuesday that will lead the country to a new election on November 1.

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip…

Three Persian Gulf Arab countries issued warnings over travel to Lebanon after peaceful anti-government demonstrations in Beirut turned violent over the weekend.

A rare mass trial of 41 extremists accused of seeking to overthrow the government and links with “terrorists” opened on Monday in the United Arab Emirates, official media reported.

Three Saudi soldiers were killed and three others wounded along the Yemeni border in the past 24 hours of fighting and by rocket fire and artillery shelling from inside Yemen, the Saudi military…

German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said on Monday he plans to travel to Iran in October, sending a strong signal that Europe's largest economy wants to quickly rebuild economic and…

In a new human wave surging through the Balkans, thousands of exhausted migrants from the Middle East, Asia and Africa crossed on foot Monday from Macedonia into Serbia on their way…

Police and military officials on Monday said a series of suicide car bombings by Islamic State militants targeting a military outpost in Anbar Province have killed eight soldiers and injured six…

A new anti-austerity party formed by rebel lawmakers who quit the governing left-wing Syriza was given its chance Monday to seek government coalition partners and prevent Greece from…