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A car bomb exploded near the entrance to Kabul airport on Monday, killing at least five people and wounding 16, days after a series of suicide attacks in the Afghan capital killed dozens of…

Sweden’s sexual assault inquiry on Julian Assange is deadlocked with Ecuador over a dispute regarding the WikiLeaks founder’s asylum status, Swedish officials said Monday.

When talk turns, as it often does, to the issue of defining Europe’s identity and values, its handling of the current “migration crisis” has to be one of the core concerns.

At least 58 people were killed and more than 100 wounded on Monday in two blasts in eastern Iraq claimed by Islamic State in a province once considered mostly free of them.

The European Commission on Monday approved $2.6 billion (€2.4 billion) of aid over six years for member countries struggling to cope with a tide of immigrants as hundreds of new refugees were…

Funding prospects are “bleak” and impoverished Syrian refugees face more cuts in food aid, the head of the World Food Program said in an interview, after inspecting the bare refrigerator of a…

Six members of the security forces were killed in a series of attacks in Turkey amid rising tension between the government and Kurdish forces.

Meanwhile, the US Consulate in Istanbul was…

Yemen is “crumbling” under a deepening humanitarian crisis after months of civil war, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Tuesday, and a UN investigator said sieges imposed by…

It is absolutely necessary to remember what happened 70 years ago in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, see the movies from then and listen to the survivors, the hibakusa. But it is not enough…

Eight people, including five children and three adults, were found dead inside a Houston-area home following the arrest of a man who exchanged gunfire with police, Texas authorities said Sunday. A…

Egypt’s ousted president Mohamed Morsi, who has been in detention for two years, is to undergo a medical examination at his request after he complained about prison food, state media said on…

Hundreds of Christian families have fled a central Syrian town as Islamic State militants advance toward it, activists said on Saturday, the anniversary of the US beginning airstrikes against the…

Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi issued a decree on Sunday, proposing the cancellation of the country’s vice president and deputy prime minister’s positions.

Several thousand people marched Saturday through the western German city of Cologne in protest at continued Turkish airstrikes against Kurdish forces.

Pro-government forces in Yemen, strengthened by tanks newly supplied by a Saudi-led coalition, launched an offensive Saturday to retake the Houthi-held Abyan Province, military sources said.

A suicide bomber in Afghanistan’s northern Kunduz Province has killed 29 people, mainly members of illegal armed groups that have clashed with security forces and the insurgents in the past, an…

Iraq's top Shia cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, directed Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to take tougher measures against corruption and name politicians standing in the way of reform.

The Islamic State militant group released an audio recording purporting to feature the suicide bomber who killed 15 people at a police compound mosque in Saudi Arabia.

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari instructed the defense ministry to create “a modest military industrial complex,” his office said in a statement on Friday.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and his Saudi Arabian counterpart Adel Jubeir will hold talks in Moscow on August 11, a source in the Saudi Arabian Embassy in Russia said.

Lavrov and…

France on Friday thanked Oman for helping to free a French aid worker who was abducted in February. The release of Isabelle Prime has underscored the sultanate’s role as a diplomatic bridge…

Manuel Contreras, who headed Chile’s intelligence service “Dina” during the government of Augusto Pinochet in the 1970s and 80s, died on Friday in a military hospital in the capital, Santiago.…

At least 13 people, including five Mali soldiers, three gunmen and four unidentified men, were killed in an attack by militants on a hotel and an ensuring siege in central Mali. Militants had…

One international service member and eight Afghan contractors were killed in an attack on a military base in the Afghan capital, a NATO official said on Saturday. The nationality of the…

Officers and commanders who served in the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein’s regime before the US invasion of Baghdad in 2003 now make up top ranks in the Islamic State militant organization,…