International

The UN has accused South Sudan’s Army of raping and then burning girls alive inside their homes during its recent campaign, a report by its mission in the country said.

The statement,…

The last camp in South Africa hosting displaced foreigners following a series of xenophobic attacks across the country in April is scheduled to close on Tuesday, officials from the municipality…

An unmanned SpaceX rocket carrying supplies and the first-of-its-kind docking port to the International Space Station broke apart Sunday shortly after liftoff. It was a severe blow to NASA, still…

Egypt's public prosecutor died from wounds sustained in a bomb attack on Monday that had targeted his convoy in Cairo, state news agency MENA said.

Judicial and medical sources also…

Russian President Vladimir Putin has pledged to support Syria's government "politically, economically and militarily," syria's Foreign Minister Walid Muallem said in Moscow on Monday.

"I…

I woke up last Friday morning with every intention of catching up with my paperwork. But the pile remained untouched as I became increasingly drawn into the unfurling events of a day that became…

Brazil is planning to purchase the Russian Pantsir-S1 air defense system by the first half of 2016, Brazilian Ambassador to Russia Jose Vallim Guerreiro said. Brazil was close to…

Second New York State prison escapee David Sweat is in custody after being shot by police, US officials said. Convicted murderer Sweat, 35, was shot twice and captured less than 3 km from the…

Taliban militants in Afghanistan killed at least 11 Afghan soldiers in an ambush in western Herat Province, police said in a statement.

The convoy of pickup trucks was attacked on Sunday…

Israeli forces blocked the Third Gaza Freedom Flotilla and forced the ships participating in it to land in the Israeli port of Ashdod, the Israeli military said in a statement on Monday.

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Kuwait’s Oil Minister Ali al-Omair said the government would examine on Monday new security legislation, following a suicide bomb attack on the Shia Imam Sadiq (PBUH) mosque that left 27 dead and…

A pro-European Union candidate won the runoff vote for mayor of Moldova’s capital and biggest city Chisinau on Monday, in an election seen as a test of whether the former Soviet republic moves…

A statue of a Bosnian Serb nationalist whose assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand 101 years ago sparked World War I and who is seen here as an icon of Serb patriotism was inaugurated on…

Airstrikes killed at least 20 suspected militants in Pakistan’s northwestern Shawal Valley on Sunday, intelligence officials said, more than a month after security forces moved in on Pakistani…

An Afghan official said the Islamic State group now has a presence in three provinces but that the government is determined to drive it out.

Zafar Hashimi, the Afghan president's deputy…

A report submitted earlier this month by the NGO “Defense for Children International–Palestine” to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the Israel-Palestine conflict’s toll on children in…

Syria’s Foreign Minister Walid Muallem will meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov in Moscow next week to discuss ways to resolve the conflict in Syria, Russia’s…

Moldovans voted in runoffs on Sunday for local elections seen as a test whether the former Soviet republic will move closer to the European Union or seek ties with Russia. Under scrutiny is who…

A suicide bomber who carried out a deadly attack claimed by the Islamic State group on a Shia mosque in Kuwait was a Saudi national, the interior ministry said Sunday.

In a statement…

A trio of US senators visiting Cuba’s capital on Saturday called for the reopening of full embassies in Havana and Washington, under the recent US-Cuban diplomatic thaw.

People in the Tunisian resort town of Sousse held a march to denounce the attack in which at least 38 people, most of them tourists, were killed by a gunman on a nearby beach on Friday.

The…

More than 500 people, many of them seriously burned, were rushed to hospitals on Sunday after a fire spread into a crowd of spectators at a music festival at a Taiwan water park, authorities said…

White Americans are the biggest terror threat in the United States, having killed more people in attacks than Muslims or any other group in the last 14 years, according to a new study.

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday Iraqi forces made an "unauthorized" withdrawal from Ramadi last month, leading to the Islamic State group's takeover of the Anbar provincial…

There should be no doubt in anybody’s mind at the scale of horror that the Islamic State militant group is determined to inflict on any one in order to further the caliphate and repress dissent,…