International

Turkey plans to initiate steps to invoke mechanisms at international organizations with regard to the death penalty sentence of ousted Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi, Turkey’s presidential…

Saudi-led air raids hit the Yemen capital Sanaa overnight, targeting forces loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Saleh in the east and south of the city, residents said on Tuesday.

A tribal leader said government forces and allied Sunni tribesmen repelled an attack by Islamic State militants on a town between two militant-held cities in the western Anbar Province.

The spy agencies of Pakistan and Afghanistan have agreed to share intelligence and carry out "coordinated intelligence operations" against militants operating along their fragile border, in the…

An Afghan judge on Tuesday sentenced 11 policemen to one year in prison for dereliction of duty during the mob killing of a woman in Kabul who was falsely accused of burning a copy of Quran.

Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra pleaded not guilty at the start of her trial on Tuesday on charges of negligence. She faces up to 10 years in prison if found guilty of dereliction…

At least 30 people have disappeared in the south-western Mexican state of Guerrero – a key route for drug traffickers - over the past 10 days, the Human Rights State Commission reported. Local…

US President Obama banned the sale of certain kinds of military equipment to local law enforcement agencies, following widespread criticism of a paramilitary-like response to riots in a St. Louis…

Police in the US state of Texas said nine people were killed and at least 100 arrested after a shootout between rival biker gangs in Waco. The incident happened in a shopping area called the…

How could the Egyptian people decide, weeks into his rule, that Mohamed Morsi had failed? They most certainly did not, but foreign meddling led to violence, Tallha Abdulrazaq wrote for the Middle…

The number of people killed in Nepal by two major earthquakes has surpassed 8,500, making the disaster the deadliest to hit the Himalayan country on record, as rescuers on Sunday searched for…

Jordan’s King Abdullah accepted the resignation of his interior minister as the government dismissed top police chiefs over reported rights abuses in prisons and the mishandling of a crackdown in…

The European Union is set to back plans on Monday for an ambitious naval force to fight people smugglers in the Mediterranean after a series of shipwrecks that killed hundreds of migrants.

A Taliban attack on a district government headquarters in Afghanistan’s southern Uruzgan Province on Monday killed at least seven people, an Afghan official said. Taliban spokesman Qari…

The Islamic State militant group killed at least 500 people - both civilians and Iraqi soldiers - and forced 8,000 to flee their homes as it captured the Iraqi city of Ramadi, a provincial…

Airstrikes by Saudi-led forces hit positions in and around the southern Yemeni city of Aden overnight, residents said, after a five-day humanitarian truce expired on Sunday. The attacks were…

Nigeria’s military destroyed 10 Boko Haram camps in the country’s remote northeast on Sunday as it pressed on with an offensive against militant fighters now confined to a final hideout there, the…

One US Marine died Sunday when an MV-22 Osprey military aircraft experienced a “hard landing mishap” at Bellows Air Force Station in Hawaii, with 21 other Marines also on board. The Marine Corps…

Egyptian security officials said bombs targeted courthouses in two cities, killing two people and injuring several others in what could be  a response to the sentencing to death of the ousted…

Russia accused “western organizers” on Saturday of trying to foment a “color revolution” in the troubled former Yugoslav republic of Macedonia, where political tensions are building…

Islamic State militants are being smuggled into Europe by gangs in the Mediterranean, an adviser to the Libyan government said on Sunday.

Abdul Basit Haroun said smugglers were hiding IS…

A Taliban suicide bomber detonated an explosives-packed car near the international airport in Afghanistan’s capital on Sunday, killing at least three people and wounding 18 in an attack…

At least 12 people were killed in overnight battles in the Yemeni city of Taiz between Houthis and militiamen, residents and medical sources said on Sunday.

The fighting in Taiz comes…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon expressed concern about death sentences sought against Egypt’s first democratically-elected president Mohamed Morsi and more than 100 others on Saturday.

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Thousands took to the streets in Guatemala City, demanding President Otto Perez to step down due to a corruption scandal that has shaken his government to its core. Demonstrators called for Perez…