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Fuel shortages in war-torn Yemen could cause more deaths than the continuing conflict, which rages on four days after the start of a United Nations-brokered humanitarian truce,…

Two senior Islamic State leaders were killed in an airstrike in northeastern Syria on Monday, while three leaders of an Al-Qaeda-linked group blamed for a spate of violence in Tunisia have been…

A leaked document showed nearly one-third of the 847,000 veterans in the US Department of Veteran Affairs’ backlog died while waiting for treatment, amounting to more than 238,000 patients,…

Suspected Boko Haram militants killed dozens of people and burned down homes in two villages in northeast Nigeria’s Borno state, police and a security source said on Monday.

At least 27 people were killed and dozens injured on Tuesday in a stampede during a Hindu religious festival on a river bank in southern India.

The stampede occurred in Andhra Pradesh state…

For years, Palestinians and their supporters have been saying that the only way to end Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine is simply by making its military occupation costly for Israel.

French police on Monday were hunting armed robbers who escaped after holding up a store in a shopping mall near Paris, prompting special forces to intervene and seal off the area.

The mall…

Four US F-16 warplanes landed in Iraq on Monday, the first batch of a much-delayed delivery aimed at boosting the ailing Iraqi military’s capacity, the defense ministry said.

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu was due to begin coalition talks on Monday with the second-placed Republican People’s Party after last month’s elections where his ruling party lost its…

Turkish security forces said on Sunday they had detained 45 foreign nationals over the previous three days seeking to cross into Syria to join Islamic State from the southeastern city of Gaziantep…

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Monday named a new housing minister and replaced the head of the royal court in his latest government shuffle.

A decree named Minister of State Khalid bin…

One of the depressing mysteries of the day in the Middle East is why the many different parties involved in the struggle against the Islamic State group have not coordinated more urgently to fight…

At least 23 soldiers were killed when a military barracks accidentally collapsed in Russia’s Omsk region, Russian news agencies said on Monday. Interfax news agency quoted a ministry official,…

Mexican police are chasing drug baron Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, after the kingpin escaped prison for a second time. The Sinaloa cartel boss, arrested last year, tunneled out of his high-security…

The Egyptian Army has killed scores of militants in the northern Sinai Peninsula within the past 10 days, a military spokesman said on Sunday.

In a statement posted on Facebook, Brigadier…

A suicide car bombing near a military base in eastern Afghanistan that once hosted CIA employees killed at least 33 people, mostly women and children, while car bombs and suicide attacks…

The Iraqi government began on Monday a long-awaited large-scale military operation to dislodge Islamic State militants from Iraq’s western Anbar Province, a military spokesman announced.

The Colombian government promised on Sunday to reduce hostilities against the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerilla group, if the rebels come through on their promise of a…

EU’s destructive policy in Ukraine has backfired, putting the future of hundreds of millions of Europeans on the line, the Russian parliamentary speaker wrote on Monday.

Turkey's former president Abdullah Gul called for the country to pursue a "more realistic" foreign policy, reports said Sunday.

"To be frank, I think it would be beneficial to review our…

Saudi-led coalition bombarded Yemen at dawn Sunday, witnesses said, in a new blow to a UN-proposed truce in the impoverished country where millions are threatened with famine.

Airstrikes…

Eight elderly people died in a fire that ripped through a care home near Zaragoza in northeastern Spain in the early hours of Sunday, a government official said. Twelve others were injured, two of…

Israel released a Palestinian prisoner who went on a hunger strike for 56 days to protest against his imprisonment without charge. Khader Adnan, a senior member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad…

Greece’s coastguard says 117 migrants have been rescued off the western Greek island of Zakinthos after issuing a mayday call.

Greek authorities launched a rescue operation Saturday night…

Some of Libya’s warring factions agreed on Saturday on a framework for a peace deal following months of talks in Morocco, the United Nations said.

Representatives of municipal councils and…