International

More than 4,000 migrants have been rescued off Libya’s coast in 22 separate operations in one day, with rescuers finding 17 people dead aboard a rubber dinghy, the Italian Coast Guard said…

The US State Department approved the sale of 1,600 guided bomb units to the UAE, as part of a package that is worth more than $100 million, the US Defense Security Cooperation Agency announced.…

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy changed his party’s name on Friday from Union for a Popular Movement (UMP) to The Republicans. The rebranding is seen as a springboard for Sarkozy’s 2017…

Gunmen disguised as members of the Pakistani security forces killed at least 22 passengers on Friday night after forcing them off buses traveling from the western city of Quetta to Karachi on the…

The US State Department formally removed Cuba from its list of state sponsors of terrorism, a largely symbolic step clearing the way for normalizing diplomatic relations 54 years after the two…

Former president of Yemen said on Friday the country’s fugitive president Abd-Rabbuh Mansour Hadi no longer had a place in Yemeni politics.

In an interview with Arab television station al-…

Eight people were killed and eight wounded when a rocket hit a residential district in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi on Friday, officials said.

Fighting for control of the country’s…

Clashes between armed groups in northern Mali have forced almost 60,000 people to flee their homes in the past month, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday, amid…

Egyptian officials said on Saturday at least 16 people, most of them students, were killed in a car crash involving their bus, a fuel tanker and two other vehicles on a highway north of Cairo.…

China on Saturday dismissed US views on the disputed South China Sea as incomplete and said it lacks legal evidence to support its claims.

The dismissal came after US Defense Secretary…

The IS militant group in May captured two major cities in Syria and Iraq, Palmyra and Ramadi. Despite months of military attacks from the Iraqi and Syrian armies, and US-led airstrikes, why has IS…

A suicide bomber blew himself up in the parking lot of a Shiite mosque in eastern Saudi Arabia during Friday prayers, killing four people in the second such attack in as many weeks claimed by the…

Just seven weeks before Bali Nine drug smugglers Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumara were executed, a senior Indonesian minister warned that more than 10,000 asylum seekers could be let loose if…

A major showdown between privacy rights advocates and security hardliners is set to take place Sunday in the US Senate as lawmakers prepare to take up revised security powers for America’s…

The UN refugee agency and Myanmar sparred over the plight of the Rohingya ethnic minority at a meeting aimed at tackling the Southeast Asian migrant crisis in Bangkok.

A volcano erupted on a small island in southern Japan on Friday, and authorities ordered residents to evacuate the island.

Mount Shindake on the Japanese island of Kuchinoerabu erupted…

Iraqi forces and Shiite units are involved in heavy fighting to retake the country’s largest oil refinery from the IS insurgent group. Speaking from Beiji, a member of the elite forces said they…

The World Health Organization (WHO), which compiles figures on casualties in Yemen, said its latest figures show that nearly 2,000 people had been killed between March 19 and May 22. It said 7,870…

UN aid chief, Valerie Amos, made a final appeal Thursday to world powers to take action to end Syria’s four-year war, saying it had brought more despair than ever thought possible.

In her…

A Russian plane delivered nearly 22 tons of humanitarian aid to the Syrian port city of Latakia, said the Russian Emergencies Ministry on Friday. The plane also proceeded to evacuate 66…

At least 12 young women have tried to leave Melbourne to join IS militant group, according to Australian police. The women, aged 18-29, have been recruited on social media, with five of them now…

More than 100,000 taxpayers have had their personal tax information stolen from the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) website as part of an elaborate scheme to claim fraudulent tax refunds. IRS is…

Four Taliban troops armed with assault rifles and a grenade launcher stormed a guesthouse in the diplomatic quarter of the Afghan capital overnight and held out for hours until they were…

Seven members of a family were killed in an overnight strike by Saudi-led warplanes on a border village in northern Yemen, residents said.

Residents of Al-Mohssam Village, in the northern…

The rise of Islamic State extremists in the Middle East can be traced to Republicans who backed arming fighters in the region, presidential candidate Rand Paul said in an interview broadcast…