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A roadside bomb killed at least 19 Afghan civilians including nine children in a southern province, while Taliban fighters in the north captured a key district on the frontline of the battle for…

Arab airstrikes killed 15 people and wounded dozens across Yemen late on Saturday, according to Saba news agency.

The dead included five women and two children in attacks on Saada and Marib…

Several fatal shootings were reported across the United States on Saturday, less than a week after a white supremacist shot dead nine blacks at a landmark church in Charleston, South Carolina.…

Mali’s Tuareg-led rebel alliance signed a landmark deal on Saturday to end years of unrest in a nation riven by ethnic divisions and militant attacks. The Algiers Accord aims to bring stability to…

Toxic homemade liquor has killed at least 94 slum dwellers in India’s financial capital Mumbai, with more than 45 in hospital, police said on Sunday. Five people have been arrested in connection…

The operation “Decisive Storm” launched by the Saudi-led coalition against Houthi forces in Yemen has become an albatross around the kingdom’s neck. What could have been a short-term military…

Nearly 2,000 people protested on Saturday in the German city of Frankfurt against a march held by the far-right Anti-Islam movement known as PEGIDA.

Approximately 200 PEGIDA members…

The Al-Shabab militant group launched a major suicide raid on Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Sunday.

A suicide car bomber and gunmen attacked a training center for the national intelligence…

A new cache of documents reportedly leaked from Saudi Arabia’s interior ministry appears to reveal the extent of the kingdom’s funding of regional media outlets. The documents also disclose…

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius on Saturday urged the resumption of Middle East peace talks, while warning that continued Israeli settlement building in the occupied West Bank damaged…

Britain’s Ministry of Defense has confirmed it is providing Saudi Arabia with arms and technical support in its ongoing war against Yemen.

An MoD official said on condition of anonymity…

The US Department of Defense is stepping up its military capabilities for increased activities in the Arctic Sea region, a Government Accountability Office report stated.

Mali’s Tuareg-led rebel alliance prepared Saturday to sign a landmark deal to end years of unrest in a nation riven by ethnic divisions and in the grip of a militant insurgency.

The Algiers…

A white man guns down nine black people in a church in South Carolina. The state’s confederate battle flag stays waving in the wind the next day. The white man is arrested. He is given a Kevlar…

Gunmen from Al-Shabab militant group killed at least eight officers in a raid on a police station near the Somalia capital, police and the militants said on Saturday. Al-Shabab insurgents stormed…

Heavy storms that swept through several southern Chinese provinces this past week have killed 18 people and left four more missing, according to the ministry of civil affairs. The storms have…

Saudi-led warplanes launched dawn raids Saturday on Yemen's southern port city of Aden, the military said, hours after peace talks in Geneva ended without agreement.

At least 15 airstrikes…

The US State Department said in a report the number of terrorist attacks worldwide rose by a third in 2014, while terror fatalities nearly doubled, with militants in Africa and the Middle East…

A top Bahraini opposition leader was released Friday after more than four years in prison for his role in protests calling for reform in the Persian Gulf Arab country.

The WAAD (National…

Russian President Vladimir Putin reaffirmed Russia’s support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and said he opposed any use of external force to try to end the Syrian civil war.

WikiLeaks is in the process of publishing more than 500,000 Saudi diplomatic documents to the Internet, the transparency website said Friday, a move that echoes its famous release of US State…

Danish voters ousted Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt in an election on Thursday and handed power to an opposition center-right alliance including huge gains for a eurosceptic, anti-immigrant…

The Russian government on Thursday strongly condemned the freezing of Russian accounts in France and Belgium as part of an effort to enforce a $50 billion judgment for shutting down the Yukos Oil…

A 21-year-old white man was charged with nine counts of murder for an attack on a historic black South Carolina church, local police said on Friday, calling the shooting a “hate crime.” Dylann…

At least 10 people were killed and several others injured in a fire that broke out in a hotel in northern India, police said. The fire reportedly broke out early Friday in a restaurant and…