International

Kuwait observed a day of mourning after 27 people died in an attack on a Shia mosque during Friday prayers. A mass funeral was held on Saturday after the country was hit by its worst militant…

While some French leaders called for unity in the wake of Friday’s attack on a US-owned gas plant near the southeastern city of Lyon, others took the opportunity to criticize the government over…

Tunisia’s Prime Minister Habib Essid announced on Saturday measures to intensify security after an attack on a holiday resort in which at least 37 people were killed.

World leaders joined voices in an international chorus of outrage and condemnation after a string of militant attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia on Friday left dozens dead.

UN Secretary-…

Kurdish forces said they fully secured the Syrian border town of Kobane on Saturday and killed more than 60 Islamic State militants, two days after the insurgent group attacked it with suicide…

Richard Matt, one of two escaped murderers from an upstate New York maximum-security prison, was shot dead by officers involved in a massive three-week manhunt, officials said on Friday. Officers…

A total of 120 policemen have been killed so far this year in Venezuela, a local watchdog said on Friday. Local monitoring and rights group Fundepro said it had registered 120 murders of policemen…

The United Nations Security Council and UN aid chief Stephen O'Brien on Thursday pushed for more aid and commercial access to Yemen, where a near total blockade by Saudi Arabia has slowed…

Racial discrimination and police abuses are rife in the United States, China’s Cabinet said Friday, in a report intended as a counterpoint to US criticisms of Beijing’s human rights record.

The Vatican on Friday signed a historic first accord with Palestine, two years after officially recognizing it as a state.

Dozens of people were killed on Friday in a spate of militant attacks targeting a Shia mosque in Kuwait, a beach resort in Tunisia and a US factory in France.

A suicide blast ripped through…

An Islamic State attack on the northeastern Syrian city of Hasaka is reported to have displaced 60,000 people, the United Nations office in Syria said on Friday, warning…

US President Barack Obama said the US government has let down the families of Americans held hostage by armed groups abroad, and outlined new policies that could make it easier for those families…

Nineteen US Democrats urged Secretary of State John Kerry to stress the rights of Palestinian children during Washington’s relations with Tel Aviv.

European Union leaders agreed Friday to relocate 40,000 refugees from Italy and Greece to other EU countries over the next two years, in an effort to share the burden of a growing migrant crisis…

The Yemen peace talks in Geneva broke down last week before they even got underway. Indeed, the delegations never even made it into the same room, let alone reach an agreement.

Israel on Thursday released Hassan Yousef, a Hamas-affiliated member of the Palestinian Parliament after “an entire year” in prison, the Islamist movement said. The Israeli Army arrested Yousef in…

Russia’s former prime minister Yevgeny Primakov, famed for turning around his US-bound plane over the Atlantic upon learning of NATO’s bombing of Serbia in 1999, has died at the age of 85, the…

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad Maliki will present documents detailing Palestine’s complaints against Israel’s international law breaches in the International Criminal Court, media…

Somalia’s Al-Shabab insurgents killed at least six people on Wednesday in a suicide attack on a diplomatic convoy from the United Arab Emirates in the Somali capital Mogadishu, police and the…

US President Barack Obama’s bid to boost US economic ties with Asia was poised for a win on Wednesday, when a six-week congressional battle will culminate in a decisive Senate vote on legislation…

Pentagon has released a book of instructions on the “law of war,” detailing acceptable ways of killing the enemy. The manual also states that journalists can be labeled “unprivileged belligerents…

I hear the war in Afghanistan is over. This war was supposedly the reason I remained trapped, rotting in this endless horror at Guantanamo Bay. I write this letter today to ask, if this war…

Pressure is mounting to withdraw the Confederate battle flag across the US, after South Carolina lawmakers called for its removal from the state house.

Protesters rallied in Columbia on…

A UN peacekeeping contingent serving in the Central African Republic is suspected of sexually abusing streetchildren in Bangui, a UN spokesman said Tuesday.

It was the third case of alleged…