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Libya's UN-backed government called on Arab countries to bomb Islamic State targets in the city of Sirte, after warnings of a "massacre" in the coastal city.

"We urge fellow Arab countries…

The wreckage of an Indonesian airliner carrying 54 people was found on Sunday, hours after it lost contact with ground control, Indonesia's director general of air transportation, Suprasetyo, said…

Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate, the Nusra Front, has freed several members of a US-trained rebel force that it kidnapped two weeks ago, the western-backed unit said in a statement.

In a…

At least 14 people, including an anti-Taliban provincial minister, were killed in a suicide attack in Pakistan's Punjab Province, a top official in the province said on Sunday.

Writing is a way to be useful if you believe that our long-suffering humanity must be better and more fully educated, given the incredible ignorance in which we are all enveloped, with the…

Germany on Saturday said it would withdraw its two Patriot missile batteries from Turkey early next year, ending its role in a three-year NATO mission to help bolster the country’s air defense…

Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa declared a state of emergency Saturday over increasing activity in the Cotopaxi Volcano near the capital of Quito, and officials evacuated a few hundred…

American telecommunications giant AT&T reportedly played a “highly collaborative” part in helping the US National Security Agency to spy on Internet traffic, according to new information…

Egypt hit back Saturday at a call by the Human Rights Watch for an international investigation into the killing of hundreds of protesters in Cairo by security forces two years ago.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi approved the decision of an investigative council on Sunday to refer military commanders to a court martial for abandoning their positions in the battle…

Leaders of 15 southern African countries have gathered for an annual summit from Monday, as the region grapples with serious food shortages that have left a record number of people needing aid.

Authorities pulled more bodies from a massive blast site in the Chinese port of Tianjin, pushing the death toll to 112 on Sunday as teams scrambled to clear dangerous chemical contamination.

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton hit back at one of her Republican rivals, Jeb Bush, over who is responsible for instability in Iraq. Bush accused the Obama administration of a “…

A former chief of Pakistan’s powerful military intelligence, Hamid Gul, died at the age of 79. Gul led the Inter-Services Intelligence from 1987 to 1989. One of the most outspoken military leaders…

Islamic State militants have beheaded 12 people and hung them on crosses during a battle for the coastal Libyan city of Sirte, the national news agency LANA reported Saturday.

Al-Qaeda has released an audio message that it claims has come from Hamza bin Laden, a son of Osama bin Laden.

In the message, shared by Al-Qaeda supporters on Twitter, Hamza bin Laden…

At least 40 migrants died Saturday in the hold of an overcrowded smuggling boat in the Mediterranean Sea north of Libya, apparently killed by fuel fumes, and some 320 others on the same boat were…

A Syrian rebel group said on Saturday a ceasefire was over between insurgents and the Syrian Army and its Lebanese ally Hezbollah in a town near the Lebanese border and two villages in the…

EU Migration and Home Affairs Commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos on Friday said the agency is ready to provide funding and quickly help member states address a recent influx of migrants from…

New small explosions rocked a disaster zone in the Chinese port of Tianjin on Saturday, as authorities pulled out an additional survivor and began evacuating the area to clean up chemical…

A senior figure in the Kurdistan Workers’ Party on Friday warned that Turkey would pay “a heavy price” for its offensive against the Kurdish forces amid new deadly clashes in the Kurdish-majority…

India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi warned on Saturday that corruption was eating away at India “like a termite” as he used an Independence Day speech to pledge his commitment to eradicating…

Nearly one million people, or 170,000 families in Guatemala, have no food reserves left as poor rainfall has led to drought and shrunken harvests, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said,…

North Korea on Saturday demanded that the South halt anti-North propaganda broadcasts via loudspeakers along the border or face military action, a day after it denied Seoul’s accusation that it…

The good news from Kuwait this week is that security forces busted a terror cell that had a massive cache of weapons and explosives hidden in a farm north of Kuwait City and arrested three Kuwaiti…