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Four women and a man were found dead in an apartment in a middle-class neighborhood of Mexican capital on Friday, officials said on Saturday. Among the dead was photojournalist Ruben Espinosa, who…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who has governed Germany since 2005, has reportedly decided to run for a fourth term and has started planning her 2017 reelection campaign, Der Spiegel news…

Iraqi Kurdish regional government called on the Kurdistan Workers' Party to "withdraw" from Iraq's Kurdish territory to prevent civilian deaths amid a campaign of Turkish airstrikes targeting the…

The United Arab Emirates is to try 41 people on charges of seeking to overthrow the government to set up an Islamic State group-style caliphate, prosecutors said on Sunday.

Syrian government forces pushed rebels back from an area bordering President Bashar al-Assad’s heartland, a monitor said Saturday. The area borders Latakia Province, a bastion of support for Assad…

ASEAN and China are discussing setting up a “hotline” in case of an emergency regarding the territorial dispute over the South China Sea, a Philippine official said on Sunday.

The migrant crisis engulfing the French port of Calais is an EU-wide issue that needs to be tackled by the entire 28-member bloc, British Home Secretary Theresa May and French Interior Minister…

The Islamic State militants have detained four journalism students in Mosul on charges of leaking information from the group to Iraqi and media organizations, a media watchdog said on Saturday.…

At least 1,332 Iraqis were killed by violence in July amid the war against the Islamic State militant group, a slight drop from June, according to UN figures released Saturday.

The UN…

After billions of dollars spent and more than 10,000 extremist fighters killed, the Islamic State group is fundamentally no weaker than it was when the US-led bombing campaign began a year ago,…

The Afghan Taliban’s Supreme Council was not consulted over the election of a new leader following the death of founder Mullah Omar.

Taliban sources said on Thursday that his deputy Mullah…

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton released eight years of tax records, saying that she and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, have paid nearly $44 million in federal taxes…

US Secretary of State John Kerry left for Egypt for cooperation talks and to Qatar, where he hopes to ease Persian Gulf countries’ concerns over the Iran nuclear deal.

The trip, which ends…

Around 260 members of the Kurdistan Workers Party have been killed and hundreds wounded in Ankara’s weeklong campaign of airstrikes against targets of the group inside Turkey and in northern Iraq…

India and Bangladesh swapped control of some 160 small pockets of land on each other’s territory, ending one of the world’s most intractable border disputes that has kept thousands in limbo for…

A state of emergency imposed in Tunisia after a gunman killed 38 foreign tourists in June will be extended for two months, the president’s office announced on Friday. Presidency spokesman Moez…

A private jet crashed in southern England late on Friday, killing four people on board, British police service said, and Saudi and British media said the passengers were relatives of deceased Al-…

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez, a 24-year-old US citizen, opened fire in July at two military sites in Chattanooga, Tennessee, killing five. This act of local horror was also one of national…

The man considered to be the mastermind behind coordinated bomb attacks in Mumbai in 1993 that left 257 people dead was executed early on Thursday.

Yakub Memon was hanged at a prison in the…

The leader of a US-backed rebel group and several of his men have been abducted in northern Syria by the Al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front, the rebel group and opposition activists said Thursday.

Chad said on Thursday its forces had killed 117 Boko Haram insurgents during a two-week military campaign aimed at clearing islands on Lake Chad used by the militants as hideouts and bases to…

The United States began Thursday the delivery of eight F-16 fighter jets to Egypt, according to its embassy in Cairo, the first since Washington fully lifted in March a freeze on arms delivery.

The WikiLeaks website published documents Friday that it says shows the US government spied on Japanese officials and companies.

The documents include what appear to be five US National…

Kuwait has broken up a new five-member cell of alleged members of the Islamic State militant group one month after a deadly bombing at a Shia mosque claimed the life of dozens, the interior…

The confirmation of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar’s death has thrown the fledgling Afghan peace process into disarray, with planned talks postponed.