International

A magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck very close to Pakistan’s capital of Islamabad early Saturday, killing at least three people, while rains and floods have left at least 36 dead and affected more…

If you’ve been watching the international response to the Islamic State militant group with a sense of dismay at that lackluster effort, an intriguing new article offers a novel explanation for…

Tunisia’s parliament voted overwhelmingly to pass the country’s new anti-terror law despite fears by rights groups that it could be abused and threaten the fledgling democracy.

Russia looks set to veto next week’s UN Security Council vote for a tribunal to prosecute those suspected of downing the Malaysia Airlines passenger plane over Ukraine last year.

Syria’s foreign minister said on Friday it is too early to hold another United Nations-backed peace conference on Syria, indicating the dim prospects for diplomacy as a UN envoy wraps up three…

Civilian suffering in Yemen has reached "unprecedented levels," the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday, warning that intensifying violence in the country's south was…

The Islamic State group has abducted 182 children in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul to train them as militants and use them as suicide bombers, a representative of …

US troops will begin training regular Ukrainian military forces later this year in an expansion of their current mission, the State Department said on Friday. It said the training will take place…

At least seven people were killed and several injured, some seriously, in a huge explosion at a fireworks factory near Italy’s southern city of Bari, local media said. The factory was said to have…

An Emirati plane landed in Aden at dawn on Friday, bringing humanitarian aid to the southern Yemeni city, only hours after its airport came under rocket fire.

The aircraft is the third to…

Israel outrageously equates stone-throwing with terrorism. It calls premeditated naked aggression against 1.8 million near-defenseless Gazans self-defense. Rogue regimes operate this way.

US President Barack Obama admitted that his failure to pass “commonsense gun safety laws” in the US is the greatest frustration of his presidency.

Obama told BBC it was “distressing” not to…

As many as 40 migrants trying to reach Europe are feared dead after their inflatable dinghy sank off the coast of Libya, according to survivors interviewed by the UN refugee agency on Thursday.…

A cargo ship collided with a boat on the Nile carrying people celebrating an engagement, leaving at least 31 dead, Egyptian police said on Thursday as divers searched for missing passengers.

Bomb blasts blamed on Boko Haram killed 29 people in Nigeria and 24 in Cameroon, officials said on Thursday, after Nigeria’s new president warned that the US refusal to sell his country strategic…

Saudi Arabia played down the significance of a visit by Hamas leaders, saying it was only a religious pilgrimage and Riyadh’s position on the Palestinian movement remains the same.

“There…

Turkish fighter jets bombed positions of Islamic State militants early Friday inside Syria for the first time, in a dramatic escalation of fighting after the killing of a Turkish soldier in cross-…

The second round of official talks between representatives of the Kabul government and the Taliban, aimed at ending the 14-year war, will take place on July 30 in China, an Afghan official said on…

Islamic State’s Egyptian affiliate claimed planting a bomb on Thursday, which the army said killed four soldiers near Rafah, a town on the border with Gaza Strip. The militant group Sinai Province…

US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter arrived on an unannounced visit on Friday to Erbil, the capital of Iraq’s Kurdistan region. He was expected to meet the Kurdistan region’s President Massoud…

A longtime Al-Qaeda operative and key figure in the so-called Khorasan Group, Muhsin al-Fadhli, was killed in a US airstrike while moving in a vehicle in northwestern Syria two weeks ago, the…

A new Kuwaiti law imposing mandatory DNA tests on citizens and foreigners violates the right to personal privacy and should be amended, Human Rights Watch said.

At least 22 Iraqi soldiers and fighters from the Popular Mobilization Forces were killed in a double suicide car attack by the Islamic State group in east Fallujah, while at least 19…

Police in Singapore have frozen two bank accounts as part of an investigation into alleged money laundering at Malaysia’s troubled state fund 1MDB. It is alleged the fund funneled millions of…

Somewhere in a parallel universe, top-ranking Republican presidential candidates Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Marco Rubio are gearing up for an inaugural primary debate where they will make their…