International

As many as 700 people are feared dead after a boat carrying migrants capsized off the Libyan coast overnight, in one of the worst disasters seen in the Mediterranean migrant crisis, officials said…

Thousands of families continue to flee the Iraqi city of Ramadi as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group closes in on the capital of Anbar province, clashing with Iraqi troops.

Clashes between Shiite rebels and pro-president forces in southern Yemen overnight left 21 dead, on the fourth week of a Saudi-led air campaign against rebels, medics and local sources said Sunday…

Voters in Turkish Cyprus elect a president on Sunday whose main task will be to represent them in reunification talks that are expected to resume on the ethnically divided island next month.

The current visit to Washington by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi comes at a decisive moment for his country and the entire region. Any policy agreements reached could have fateful consequences…

French President Francois Hollande's approval rating has risen, but the vast majority of French voters remain unhappy with his performance, casting doubt on his re-election chances, said an…

A massive influx of refugees from Libya, where IS extremists have been gaining ground, can be halted or at least reduced by extending “targeted anti-terrorist strikes” into the coastal area, said…

Russia has key interests in common with the United States and needs to work with it on a common agenda, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday.

Afghanistan's parliament has approved 16 Cabinet nominees after months of delays.

Iraqi forces retook most of the country's largest refinery from Islamic State on Saturday, security officials said, reversing gains by the militants who seized parts of the sprawling complex this…

Burundian police fired tear gas and water cannons on Friday at hundreds of protesters opposed to the president running for a third term while the UN Security Council warned the violence threatened…

A car bomb exploded today just outside the US consulate in Irbil, Iraq. It’s unclear how many people may have been injured or killed, but local reports from northern Iraq say some…

A suicide bomb blast in Afghanistan’s eastern city of Jalalabad killed 33 people and injured more than 100 outside a bank where government workers collect salaries, the city’s police chief said on…

At least 27 people were killed in the Yemeni city of Taez in clashes between loyalist forces and rebels as well as Saudi-led coalition air raids, medical sources said Saturday.

Residents…

South African police fired rubber bullets Friday to disperse crowds setting immigrant businesses ablaze as attacks against foreigners spread to Johannesburg.

Chanting and singing, machete-…

Russia on Friday warned that the arrival of US paratroopers in Ukraine to train its forces fighting pro-Russian rebels could reignite the conflict, leading to mass bloodshed.

The arrival of…

One longs for a candidate for president of the United States possessing those rare traits of statesmanship, honesty and integrity. One looks back in vain to see such an example, and the near and…

President Obama has called on (Persian) Gulf nations to use their influence on Libya’s warring factions to help resolve the chaotic situation there.

He said those nations had been seen to “…

Fugitive Iraqi militant leader Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a former right-hand man to Saddam Hussein, has been killed, Iraqi media say, BBC reported.

Riot police in Chile have deployed water cannons and tear gas against demonstrators who were lobbing rocks and street signs, after a mostly-peaceful march against a contentious university reform…

The UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) sent its fourth humanitarian assistance mission to the Yarmouk camp for Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Syria, the agency said in a…

About 300 US paratroopers have come to western Ukraine to train with Ukrainian national guard units, the US Army says, BBC reported.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov warned that the move “…

United Nations chief Ban Ki-moon called for an immediate halt to the fighting in Yemen, as he began the hunt for a new UN envoy who can broker a political end to the conflict.

Yemen “is in…

David Cameron has pressed Ed Miliband to rule out cooperating with the SNP after the Labor leader again rejected a post-election coalition.

Miliband dismissed overtures from SNP leader…

Islamic State militants clashed with security forces inside Iraq’s largest refinery on Thursday and held on to recent gains in the west of the country, as Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the…