International

Former Indian president APJ Abdul Kalam has died at the age of 83. He died on Monday after collapsing as he delivered a scientific lecture.

Kalam served as India’s 11th president from 2002…

Russia will strengthen its naval forces in the Arctic and Atlantic as a response to NATO activities close to Russia's borders, the Kremlin said.

Russia's plans are outlined in a new naval…

Indian forces fought an extended gun battle on Monday with militants who attacked a moving bus and stormed into a police station in a northern town bordering Pakistan, with 10 people killed…

The five-day humanitarian ceasefire introduced by a Saudi-led coalition in Yemen was disrupted by two Saudi-led airstrikes early Monday morning, only hours after it took effect midnight Sunday,…

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee warned that by endorsing the nuclear deal with Tehran, US President Barack Obama is essentially marching Israelis “to the door of the oven.”

A shootout at a wedding party in northern Afghanistan left 21 people dead and eight wounded, an official said on Monday.

Chinese authorities plan to start a second cruise ship link to the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, state media reported on Monday, in a move that may irk Vietnam, which also…

Turkey’s air force attacked Kurdish forces camps in Iraq for a second night on Sunday, security sources said, in a campaign that could end the country’s peace process with the Kurdistan Workers…

Sixty mass graves have been uncovered and the remains of 129 bodies recovered from the graves in the southern Mexican state of Guerrero during a search for 43 students abducted last September,…

US President Barack Obama huddled with Ethiopia’s leaders Monday for talks on counterterrorism, human rights and regional security issues, including the crisis in neighboring South Sudan.…

More than a year after the Islamic State took over Mosul, one of Iraq’s largest cities, the group is still gaining ground across the country. In May, IS took Ramadi, the provincial capital of…

A car bomb struck a military vehicle in southeast Turkey, killing two soldiers and wounding four others in an attack blamed on Kurdish forces, authorities said on Sunday, a day after Turkey…

Taliban took control of a large police base in a remote part of northeastern Afghanistan after some 100 police and border guards joined the insurgents following three days of fighting, security…

At least 10 people were killed in a huge bomb explosion at a hotel in the Somali capital Mogadishu, a day after Somali lawmaker Abdullahi Huseen Mohamud and two guards and a driver were shot dead…

Iraqi security forces entered the University of Anbar in the western city of Ramadi on Sunday and clashed with Islamic State militants inside the compound, the joint operations command said in a…

At least 20 people were killed in a suspected suicide bomb attack carried out by a girl in Maroua in the far north of Cameroon on Saturday night, just days after 13 died in twin bombings in the…

Egypt extended a state of emergency in parts of the Sinai Peninsula for three months, as a roadside bomb wounded 18 policemen on Sunday in the insurgency-wracked region, security officials said.…

A magnitude-6.3 earthquake struck off the Indonesian island of Java on Sunday, but no tsunami warning has been issued or casualties or damage reported. 

The Meteorology, Climatology…

Israeli police entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Beit-ul-Moqaddas on Sunday after clashes erupted between Palestinian Muslim worshippers and Israeli Jewish hardliners at the mosque’s compound. Some 20…

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said on Sunday he supports any political dialogue to end his country’s conflict, even if its effects are limited.

In a televised speech on Sunday before…

Yemeni forces allied with a Saudi-led coalition fought the Houthis for control of the country’s largest air base north of Aden on Sunday, local residents said.

The Al-Anad base, 50 km from…

Three people were killed as a light plane crashed in Japan’s capital Tokyo, setting fire to several houses, media said. The five-seater plane crashed shortly after it had departed from Chofu…

The UN Committee for Human Rights slammed France for adopting a new surveillance law, saying it grants “excessively broad surveillance powers” to intelligence services. UNCHR called on France to…

More than 1,200 migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa and Syria, were taken to Sicily on Saturday, after having been picked up in the Mediterranean, the Italian coastguard said.

The Turkish military on Saturday carried out a second wave of strikes against targets controlled by Islamic State militants in Syria and embarked on a new air campaign to bombard camps of Kurdish…