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The rising death toll of civilians, specifically women and children, in ongoing military conflicts is generating strong messages of condemnation from international institutions and human rights…

A blast ripped through a warehouse at a US military post near Tokyo on Monday, triggering a fire, according to Japanese officials and the Pentagon. The explosion occurred at a building at the US…

A Tunisian border guard was killed and three others were wounded on Sunday in a shootout with militants on the border with Algeria, state television said Monday. The killing comes days after a…

The leader of Turkey’s main opposition party on Sunday accused President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of seeking to stage a “civilian coup” over plans for snap elections after coalition talks failed.

The Islamic State militant group is suspected of having used mustard gas against civilians in Syria’s northern Aleppo Province.

A medical group reported that those injured after at least 50…

A convoy carrying Nigeria’s chief of army staff was ambushed by Boko Haram militants on Sunday, hours before UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Abuja to discuss ways to combat extremism…

A Palestinian prisoner’s hunger strike has sparked new calls for Israel to curb its use of detention without trial, with activists charging routine abuse of a measure aimed at preventing attacks…

South Korean President Park Geun-hye said Monday she was still waiting for an apology from North Korea as marathon talks between the two sides over a recent spike in military tensions spilled into…

Kurdish armed forces attacked a hydroelectric power station near the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Sunday, killing a soldier and wounding three others, security sources said.

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The Pakistani Army said on Sunday rockets fired by militants from across the Afghan border hit a military post, killing four soldiers and wounding four others.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas stepped down on Saturday as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization's Executive Committee to force new elections for the top body, an official said.

Argentina will return thousands of stolen archeological pieces to South American neighbors, President Cristina Kirchner said Saturday.

Top aides to the leaders of North and South Korea resumed talks on Sunday after negotiating through the night in a bid to ease tensions involving an exchange of artillery fire that brought the…

The number of people, mostly civilians, killed in fighting and airstrikes by a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s third city Taiz is climbing up, the International Committee of the Red Cross said late…

At least 14 gang members were killed in a prison in the north of El Salvador, authorities said on Sunday. The bodies of the men were discovered in two separate locations during a routine…

Malaysian authorities have found mass graves containing the remains of 24 people believed to be human trafficking victims near the border with Thailand, police said on Sunday. Most were believed…

IS has been inflicting harm not only on Islam, but also on human dignity itself and must be eradicated, Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Saturday.

Thousands of rain-soaked migrants on Saturday rushed past Macedonian riot police who were attempting to block them from entering Macedonia from Greece. Police fired stun grenades and dozens of…

A military jet taking part in a British air show crashed into a busy main road, killing seven people and injuring 15 others on Saturday, while at least one person died when two small planes…

The death toll from a series of explosions earlier this month that rocked the northern port city of Tianjin rose to 123, state media reported Sunday.

Fifty people are still missing and 624…

A car bomb outside a Kabul hospital killed at least 10 people and caused widespread casualties among Afghan civilians, although it appeared to have targeted a vehicle carrying foreign citizens,…

Egypt’s state-run news agency on Saturday said Muslim Brotherhood leader Mohammed Badie and 16 others have been sentenced to life in prison on charges related to the killing of five people in…

If you have not visited the Korean Peninsula, you cannot fully understand the absurdity of the inter-Korean border conflict. Soldiers on both sides of the border stand on permanent alert, looking…

Some 2,000 mostly-Syrian refugees spent a rainy night stranded in no-man’s land between Greece and Macedonia as hundreds more began arriving Saturday on their way to Western Europe.

The…

The Arab League’s assistant secretary-general for Palestinian affairs branded Israel as “abnormal,” saying the pan-Arab body was seeking to issue a resolution from the UN Security Council to end…