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Two people were killed in clashes between police and Kurdish forces in a town in southeastern Turkey on Friday, local sources said, adding that clashes were continuing, with smoke rising from…

France needs to draw up a “civil emergency” plan to give dignified accommodation to the estimated 3,000 migrants who are camping out in the northern city of Calais in the hope of crossing the…

Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Muallem was in Oman on Thursday in his first visit to a Persian Gulf Arab country since the beginning of the civil war in 2011, according to Syrian media.

A truck bomb exploded near an army compound in Kabul on Friday, killing at least 15 people and wounding hundreds, police and government officials said, in the first major attack in the Afghan…

The refugee crisis in Europe is a crisis not because of the number of refugees, but because of Europe’s failure to respond to it in a coordinated fashion, the UN refugee agency said.

A passenger plane landed on Thursday at the Aden International Airport, the first civilian plane to arrive at the airport after four months of war.

An official from the High Relief…

Plans by the UAE to buy military systems worth $335 million to help protect the aircraft used by its heads of state have been approved by US authorities.

The US State Department said it has…

Islamic State militants have abducted dozens of Christian families after seizing a strategically located town in the central Syrian province of Homs, a monitor said on Friday.

A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people in an attack on a mosque used by members of a local security force in southwest Saudi Arabia on Thursday, the interior ministry said, an assault that an…

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said Ankara’s actions in Iraq, where the Turkish aircraft bomb positions of the Kurdistan Workers Party, raise questions about their legitimacy.

In an…

North Korea announced Friday it was moving its clocks backwards 30 minutes to create a new “Pyongyang Time,” breaking from a time standard imposed by “wicked” Japanese imperialists more than a…

France has launched air, land and sea searches on and around the Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean in the hope of finding more debris that could be linked to MH370 flight. The flight was…

Donald Trump, the real-estate tycoon and reality-show host, also known as “The Donald,” is unlikely to be the next president of the United States. He is loud, crude, ignorant about most things and…

Turkey said on Wednesday a US-led coalition will soon launch a "comprehensive battle" against Islamic State militants from Turkish air bases, but Syria said any military action not…

China has halted reclamation work in the South China Sea, the country's foreign minister said on Wednesday, at a meeting of Southeast Asian foreign ministers where the disputed waters have taken…

Canada’s federal election is officially on. The campaign period will be the longest on record since politicians had to campaign from the back of trains, and the most expensive in history.…

A local newspaper claimed on Wednesday at least nine people were killed and around 135 people kidnapped during an overnight attack by suspected Boko Haram militants in northern Cameroon after…

NATO said that beginning in September, it would be reducing the amount of air patrols in its Baltic mission. “As of September, NATO will have eight aircraft assigned to the Baltic air policing…

The Islamic State extremist group has recently been employing cash as a primary incentive to steal foot soldiers away from the Taliban movement in certain areas of Afghanistan, US Forces…

Civilian casualties in Afghanistan touched a record high in the first half of 2015, according to UN figures released Wednesday, revealing a fragile security situation six months after the NATO…

Pakistan’s Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday to allow military trials for terror suspects, the latest in the government’s intensified campaign against terrorism in the wake of last year’s Taliban…

Five police forces are investigating claims of historical child sexual abuse involving former British prime minister, Sir Edward Heath, who died in 2005, at the age of 89, at his home in Salisbury…

Two passenger trains in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh derailed minutes apart on a flooded bridge, killing at least 24 people, officials said.

The trains were passing each other near…

Amnesty International said on Tuesday the Sudanese Army had committed war crimes in the conflict-hit South Kordofan region, including bombing and shelling civilian areas and infrastructure.

Doctors Without Borders said on Tuesday health services in Yemen were "nearing collapse," with pregnant women dying for lack of transport and hospitals under fire from snipers.