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American hostage Kayla Mueller was repeatedly raped by Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, leader of the Islamic State extremist group, before her death in February, US intelligence officials told her family in…

Gunmen killed at least 18 people on the outskirts of Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo, in a series of overnight attacks.

Witnesses in several locations said masked gunmen pulled up in a car…

US Secretary of State John Kerry visited Cuba on Friday to raise the American flag above the US Embassy in Havana for the first time in 54 years, marking the symbolic end of one of the last…

Iraq's top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on Friday welcomed proposed reforms aimed at curbing corruption and streamlining the government, but said more were needed, especially for the…

The Turkish military has started building a concrete wall along the border with Syria following a series of attacks, state media said on Friday.

The world is facing its "worst refugee crisis" since World War II and Europe has to do its part to solve it in a civilized way, EU migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said on Friday.

No concept has proven to be as strategically shortsighted as the assumption of military superiority. It leads powerful nations to give in to the temptation to bomb their way out of a problem, as…

Britain said on Thursday it would make a formal protest to Ecuador over its decision to provide asylum to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in its London embassy and prevent his extradition to…

A petition calling for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to be arrested for war crimes when he arrives in London next month has been signed by over 45,000 people. The petition, published…

China sent a team of nuclear and chemical experts on the ground on Thursday to the northern port city of Tianjin, the scene of two massive explosions that have left at least 55 people dead.

Islamic State militants are suspected of using chemical weapons in an attack against Kurdish forces in northern Iraq, officials said, the first indication the militant group has obtained a banned…

The prospect of a snap election in Turkey is looming large after talks on forming a coalition government broke down on Thursday.

Russia is not committed to keeping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in power, the leader of the main Syrian opposition group said Friday after talks in Moscow.

Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri on Thursday pledged his group’s allegiance to new Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour who is facing a bitter struggle over his leadership.

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon moved to ratchet up pressure on countries whose nationals are accused of sexual abuse while serving in peacekeeping missions.

North Korea's Vice Premier Choe Yong-Gon has been executed for voicing frustration at the policies of leader Kim Jong-Un, South Korea's Yonhap news agency said Wednesday, citing an anonymous…

Foreign policy is serious business, because getting it wrong has real consequences. When countries conduct foreign policy in a cavalier or incompetent way, real human beings lose their lives or…

The Islamic State group has released 22 Assyrian Christians in northeastern Syria who were abducted along with over 200 others in Syria last February, the Assyrian Federation of Sweden, which…

A US military helicopter crashed in waters off the Japanese southern island of Okinawa, Japan’s Defense Ministry said on Wednesday. It said all 17 people on board the UH-60 Black Hawk had been…

A military court in Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria on Tuesday jailed 250 supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi, including several Muslim Brotherhood leaders, for life on violence…

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan swore on Tuesday to continue a relentless campaign against Kurdish forces until “not one terrorist” remained standing.

“We will continue our fight…

At least one person was killed in a barrage of rebel rocket fire on the Syrian capital Damascus on Wednesday, state media reported, after Syria’s warring factions declared a 48-hour ceasefire in a…

A decade of anger over the Iraq war resurfaced in the 2016 US election race on Tuesday, with Jeb Bush and Hillary Clinton’s campaigns trading blame about that country’s continued instability.

A bomb attack on a packed market in northeastern Nigeria killed around 50 people on Tuesday, sources said.

The explosion struck at around 1.30 p.m. local time in the town of Sabon Gari in…

A Malaysian opposition party on Wednesday filed a civil suit against Prime Minister Najib Razak and indebted state fund 1Malaysia Development Berhad, saying they had violated electoral rules and a…