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IS militants attacked government forces and their militia allies on Saturday, killing 11 near the city of Baiji as part of the battle for control of Iraq’s biggest refinery, army and police…

Earthquake-battered Nepal will ask international donors to support a reconstruction plan that is expected to cost $6.6 billion over five years, the government said on Saturday.

Two quakes…

A group of up to four gunmen attacked a police station in Texas overnight, firing at officers. A black van then rammed a police vehicle outside their Dallas headquarters.

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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday met Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan for talks expected to touch on energy issues and the Syria crisis.

The two leaders met a day after…

The White House is expected to announce an agreement with Cuba in early July to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, US sources familiar with the…

Four days after the September 11, 2001 attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center twin towers, the US Central Intelligence Agency had put together a vast plan to “fight terror” in 92 countries…

Hackers with suspected links to China appear to have accessed sensitive background information submitted by intelligence and military personnel for security clearances, several US officials said…

Taliban militants overran checkpoints in a nighttime raid in Afghanistan’s volatile southern Helmand Province, killing at least 20 police officers as the battle raged into Saturday,…

Interpol has suspended a joint anti-match-fixing program with FIFA over allegations of corruption against the football governing body. The international police agency is freezing the $22.5 million…

Six Yemenis held for more than a decade at the US military prison at Guantanamo in Cuba were flown to Oman for resettlement, the Pentagon said on Saturday, the latest step to close the facility.…

US military advisers in Anbar face a considerable threat from IS. How will the US respond if its servicemen are captured or killed?

Iraqi Shia militias said they had retaken control of the center of Baiji, home to Iraq’s largest oil refinery, after months of battling the IS for control of the strategic city.

Germany's top public prosecutor closed a yearlong investigation into the suspected tapping of Chancellor Angela Merkel's cellphone by US spies, saying there was a lack of evidence that would stand…

International Child Labor Day turns harsh spotlight on India, with the highest number of working children in the world.

Across the globe, more than 150 million children between age…

Nigeria and its neighbors agreed on Thursday that  Abuja would lead a new regional military force to counter Boko Haram, a fresh sign of President Muhammadu Buhari’s intent to crush the…

A judge in the Ohio city of Cleveland ruled on Thursday that police officer Timothy Loehmann should face charges of murder, involuntary manslaughter, reckless homicide, negligent homicide and…

The rise of the IS in Afghanistan will not be possible without the militant group receiving foreign backing, Hamid Karzai, former Afghan president, said in an interview.

The Syrian Army has driven insurgents from parts of an airbase they had seized in the southern province of Sweida, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported on Friday. The UK-based group…

A French court on Friday acquitted former IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn of procuring prostitutes for congregations in France, Belgium and the US. Strauss-Kahn stood alongside 13 co-defendants,…

Hackers who infiltrated the US government’s human resources records have sensitive information on all federal employees, an American union said.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Thursday called for the swift formation of a new coalition government, ending almost four days of unusual silence after legislative polls seen as a blow…

A series of bombings targeting public places and Iraqi security forces killed 20 people in and around Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.

The deadliest attack took place late on Tuesday…

The French senate has adopted an anti-terrorism bill that grants sweeping powers to French intelligence services despite strong criticism from rights groups.

The bill was adopted Tuesday by…

UN-brokered negotiations aimed at stemming Libya’s collapse into a failed state threatened to fall apart after the country’s government in the east on Tuesday dropped out of the talks in protest…

Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu resigned in a procedural move after his party lost its majority in parliamentary elections.

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accepted Davutoglu’s…