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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir is expected to win a landslide victory in elections this week, extending a 25-year reign in which the country has endured multiple insurgencies and the secession…

An explosion targeting a military vehicle killed five soldiers near the town of Sheikh Zuweid in Egypt’s North Sinai on Sunday, a security source said, a region beset by Islamist militant violence…

Unidentified gunmen fired shots at the South Korean embassy in Tripoli on Sunday killing two locally employed security guards, Xinhua and Yonhap news agencies reported. The gunmen fired from a car…

A leading official from the Bangladeshi Jamaat-e-Islami party has been executed, according to local media.

Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, the assistant general secretary of Jamaat-e-Islami, was…

President Barack Obama and Cuba’s Raul Castro sat down together Saturday in the first formal meeting of the two country’s leaders in a half-century, pledging to reach for the kind of peaceful…

Kenya has given the United Nations three months to remove a camp housing more than half a million Somali refugees, as part of a get-tough response to the killing of 148 people by…

Iraq’s prime minister will seek President Barack Obama’s help to acquire billions of dollars in drones and other US arms to fight Islamic State (IS) during a US visit next week but wants to defer…

A Saudi-led air strike hit a base in central Yemen killing 15 rebels on Sunday as 12 people died in overnight fighting in main southern city Aden, medical and security sources said.

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Four Turkish troops have been wounded after a group of terrorists opened fire with rifles on soldiers in the eastern province of Agri, Turkish security sources have said.

In his essay entitled, “Politics and the English Language,” George Orwell says, “political language…is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of…

So here is this week’s brainteaser about the endearing world of American foreign policy in the Middle East.

Islamic State militants attacked the capital of Iraq’s vast Anbar province on multiple fronts on Friday, seizing two areas on the city outskirts in a setback for a government campaign to retake…

Pakistani authorities have freed the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks on bail, sources said Friday, a move that swiftly drew furious condemnation from India.

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Pro-government forces repelled an attack on a key Syrian airport during a fierce battle in which they lost 20 fighters but killed almost as many militants, a monitor said Saturday.

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President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro shook hands on Friday at a summit in Panama, a symbolically charged gesture as the pair seek to restore ties between the Cold…

Heavy Saudi-led air strikes and ground combat between armed factions battered southern Yemen on Saturday, killing around 20 Houthi fighters and two rival militiamen, residents said, Reuters…

An Egyptian court sentenced Mohamed Badie, the leader of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood (MB), and 13 other senior members of the group to death for inciting chaos and violence…

Turkey sent troops and reconnaissance planes into the eastern Agri province after four soldiers were wounded in an overnight clash with Kurdish insurgents, the military said on Saturday,…

Kashmiris have shuttered shops and businesses in the disputed Himalayan region to protest India’s plan to build townships for Hindus who fled a rebellion in Muslim-majority areas, AP reported. The…

US President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro were set to share the same stage on Friday in an encounter rich with symbolism as their countries set aside decades of…

Pakistan's parliament on Friday decided not to join the Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite rebels in Yemen, with lawmakers adopting a resolution that calls on the warring parties in the…

A mosque in the southern Russian republic of Dagestan has caught fire after morning prayers in the city of Kizlyar, RT reported on Friday. According to initial reports, no one was killed or…

A Palestinian official says an agreement has been reached with the Syrian government to use military force to deport ISIL members from Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria. Palestinian Labor Minister…

A Taliban suicide car bomb targeted a NATO convoy in eastern Afghanistan Friday, killing at least three civilians as security forces brace for the start of the Taliban’s traditional spring…

The consummation of a full, multi-decade agreement between Iran and the P5+1 powers, based on last week’s agreed parameters of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran’s nuclear…