International

Israel’s 51-day long attacks on Gaza last year was the “deadliest and most destructive escalation” of hostilities since its occupation of the Strip in 1967, said the…

The number of South Sudanese civilians sheltering in United Nations bases has risen above 150,000 for the first time in 18 months of civil war, the UN said on Tuesday.

A total of 153,769…

French special forces killed a leader of Al-Qaeda in Mali who was involved in the kidnapping of hostage Serge Lazarevic, after the leader was released from prison in exchange for the Frenchman’s…

A bomb at a local government in northern Nigeria killed at least 25 people on Tuesday morning and then three gunmen opened fire on a crowd of civil servants there. This is while more than 200…

One-day peace talks between Afghan officials and Taliban representatives ended with both sides agreeing to meet again after the holy month of Ramadan, Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday…

The US Army plans to cut 40,000 soldiers from its ranks over the next two years, a defense official said, in a move that will raise doubts about its ability to fight wars. Some 17,000 civilians…

Pope Francis on Tuesday said protecting the planet was no longer a choice but a duty and called for a new “social justice” where access to the earth’s resources would be based on equality instead…

Yemen was rocked on Tuesday by two deadly car bombs, a day after Saudi-led airstrikes and on-the-ground fighting killed almost 200 people across the war-torn country. The branch of Islamic…

An Iraqi warplane has accidentally dropped a bomb over a residential area of Baghdad after it experienced mechanical failure, according to the country's defense ministry.

Officials…

Two bombs blamed on the extremist group Boko Haram exploded at a crowded mosque and an elite Muslim restaurant in Nigeria’s central city of Jos, killing 44, officials said Monday.

Sixty-…

The Philippines confirmed a second case of the deadly Middle East Respiratory Syndrome virus on Monday, in a man who showed symptoms after arriving in Manila last month from Dubai, Reuters…

Malaysia’s Prime Minister Najib Razak is facing the risk of criminal charges over allegations that hundreds of millions of dollars were funneled from an indebted state fund to his personal bank…

At least 23 Palestinians have been killed and another 2,156 detained by the Israeli military since January 1, 2015, the Palestine Liberation Organization said in a report.

Hundreds of thousands of people gathered in the Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil on Monday to greet Pope Francis.

The pope arrived in Ecuador on Sunday on the first leg of his three-…

Ukrainian Defense Minister Col. Gen. Stepan Poltorak during a visit to Odesa region discussed issues related to the future of the Ukrainian Navy and voiced hope that the Ukrainian naval vessels…

Burundi’s president skipped regional talks Monday aimed at brokering a deal to end weeks of unrest in the country, choosing instead to campaign for his controversial third term.

Leaders of…

The US-led coalition carried out 38 airstrikes against Islamic State targets in Syria and Iraq over a 24-hour period Saturday into Sunday with nearly half of the sorties conducted around the self-…

Nuclear-armed rivals Pakistan and India will start the process of joining a security bloc led by China and Russia at a summit in Russia later this week, a senior Chinese diplomat said on Monday,…

Air strikes by Saudi-led forces killed 30 civilians in an attack on a market in northern Yemen on Sunday, Saba news agency said, as UN mediators pushed for a humanitarian pause in fighting that…

The violence unleashed in Arab countries in the last four years may turn out to be just a first taste of what is to come. Escalating brutality and the actions of governments have put Arab citizens…

Pope Francis made his first South American trip in two years on Sunday, for an eight-day tour of Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay, but not his native Argentina.

The 78-year-old pontiff has…

Russia’s Aerospace Defense Forces are working hard to secure their country’s frontiers in the Arctic by deploying a fully automatic radar station and additional air defense systems, a top Air…

At least 55 people were killed in an attack by suicide bombers in a Nigerian village near Maiduguri. According to local residents, the bombers were women who exploded themselves in the middle of…

The WikiLeaks website said it has evidence that a number of senior Brazilian government officials were “routinely spied” on by the United States’ National Security Agency.

It said the NSA…

Cuban state television broadcast images Saturday of former president Fidel Castro meeting cheese experts during a rare trip outside his Havana home.

Seemingly alert and sharp, the 88-year-…