International

Turkey held parliamentary elections on June 7, 2015. Against the expectations, the governing Justice and Development Party (AKP) lost its absolute majority. This was seen as a major defeat both…

Al-Qaeda confirmed on Tuesday the leader of its offshoot in the Arabian Peninsula has been killed in a US drone strike in Yemen.

The death of Nasser al-Wuhayshi was announced by the AQAP in…

A plan by Washington to station tanks and heavy weapons in NATO states on Russia’s border would be the most aggressive US act since the Cold War, and Moscow would retaliate by beefing up its own…

Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir, who is wanted for war crimes, left South Africa, pre-empting a court ruling over an international warrant for his arrest.

The Pretoria High Court was due…

Countries' current pledges for greenhouse gas cuts will fail to achieve a peak in energy-related emissions by 2030 and likely result in a temperature rise of 2.6 degrees Celsius by the end of the…

The bodies of 18 West African migrants hoping to reach Europe were found in the Sahara Desert near Arlit in Niger, the International Organization for Migration said on Sunday.

US Gen. Martin Dempsey, sounds unconvinced that Iraq has found its path to lasting victory over the Islamic State militant group.

In 2003 the CIA captured a Pakistani named Majid Khan, took him to an overseas black site, and began to torture him. According to Khan, interrogators beat him, waterboarded him, and hung him from…

At least 40 people were killed on Monday in a series of blasts at several locations linked to Chad’s police in the capital, N’Djamena, security sources said. One source said seven people were…

The Colombian military has killed a key rebel leader from the National Liberation Army (ELN), the country’s second-largest guerrilla group. Jose Amin Hernandez, known by his nom de guerre…

Thousands of Syrians cut through a border fence and crossed over into Turkey on Sunday, fleeing intense fighting in northern Syria between Kurdish fighters and Islamic State militants.

The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Monday called for an immediate two-week humanitarian pause in Yemen to mark Ramadan, as talks got underway in Geneva between warring factions to…

Seventeen people were killed in Iraq on Monday in clashes between Islamic State militants and pro-government forces in a town close to the country’s biggest refinery.

The refinery beside…

The US military said it launched weekend airstrikes targeting and likely killing an Al-Qaeda-linked militant leader in eastern Libya charged with leading the attack on a gas plant in Algeria in…

Five new cases of the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome have been confirmed in South Korea and another person has died from the virus, the country’s ministry of health said Monday.

That…

The Pentagon is reportedly planning to station battle tanks, infantry fighting vehicles and other heavy equipment for up to 5,000 US troops in Eastern European and the Baltic countries. It says…

Britain’s secret intelligence service, MI6, pulled some of its spies from live operations after Russia and China decoded documents leaked by Edward Snowden, the former US National Security Agency…

The Islamic State militant group killed at least 13 Iraqi soldiers in a triple suicide car bombing at an army base south of the Iraqi city of Fallujah, nearly 70 km west of Baghdad, military…

The arrival of the Islamic State onto the global stage in the summer of 2014 with its invasion of northern Iraq, leading to the group’s declaration of a ‘caliphate’ from eastern Syria and across a…

Italy stepped up calls for a change to European asylum rules on Sunday as neighboring states tightened border controls, turning back African migrants and leaving hundreds stranded at the…

The International Criminal Court called on South Africa to arrest Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir who is in the country for an African Union summit. Bashir is wanted for war crimes over the…

UN-sponsored talks between Yemen’s exiled government and Houthi forces are in doubt over the makeup of the delegations, while Saudi-led coalition airstrikes have continued in Yemen.

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said a snap election would be “inevitable” if both the ruling AKP and the main opposition parties fail in efforts to form a new government within the…

Several thousand people protested in Macedonia’s capital Skopje on Saturday demanding the resignation of Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, with negotiations over the country’s deep political crisis…

A 22-year-old Palestinian man was killed after being hit by an Israeli Army jeep amid clashes in the West Bank. The clashes happened early Sunday morning near Ramallah. Palestinian officials…