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An Islamist militant with ties to the al Qaeda-linked Nusra Front was killed in a shoot out with Lebanese security forces in the northern city of Tripoli, security sources said, Reuters reported…

A man on trial for fraudulent bankruptcy opened fire in a courthouse in Milan in northern Italy on Thursday, killing his lawyer, co-defendant and a judge before being arrested by police after…

India is negotiating to buy 63 Rafale fighter jets made in France for 7.2 billion euros ($7.65 billion) with a view to reaching a deal during the Indian prime minister’s visit to…

The Yugoslavia war crimes tribunal in The Hague on Wednesday confirmed a life in prison sentence against General Zdravko Tolimir, a ranking officer in the Army of the Republika Srpska, for his…

Disgruntled French air traffic controllers and 300,000 French workers effectively ruined the holidays for thousands of people during the half term week.

The air traffic workers…

An American soldier and an Afghan soldier were killed when a firefight broke out between Afghan and NATO coalition forces at a compound where a senior US diplomat met a provincial governor in…

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras began talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday as his indebted country scrambles for funds, but officials said Athens had not asked for money…

Winning a war or revolution, only to lose the subsequent peace, is one of the grim political truths of our time. In Iraq, a quick military victory over Saddam Hussein’s regime soon gave way to…

Hundreds of Kenyans have held a vigil in a Nairobi park in memory of the victims of last week’s massacre at Garissa, their sadness mixed with anger.

It has emerged that the authorities…

Al-Shabaab’s massacre at Garissa University College in northeastern Kenya last week is evidence that despite recent military setbacks in its Somali heartland the Islamist group has lost none of…

A Pakistani judge on Tuesday ordered criminal charges to be filed against a former CIA lawyer who oversaw the agency’s drone program and a former station chief in Islamabad over a 2009…

The publication is indeed rather timely. It follows some high-profile cases of abuse and violence, RT reported on Tuesday.

The United States is speeding up the delivery of weapons to the Saudi-led coalition launching airstrikes against Shiite rebels in Yemen and is committed to defending Saudi Arabia, a senior…

Pyongyang is capable of launching an ICBM with a nuclear warhead from a hard-to-track mobile launcher at the US West Coast, the US aerospace defense commander has said. The capability is disputed…

The Israeli military says a Palestinian stabbed two Israelis outside a West Bank settlement before being shot dead.Wednesday morning’s attack took place near the settlement of Shilo. One Israeli…

A Syrian man living in the UK, believed to be a prominent activist against President Assad, has been found shot dead in his car in north-west London. The BBC understands the victim, in his 40s,…

Relations between Russia and the EU depend on the implementation of Minsk documents, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said on Monday. By "blocking" the agreements, Kiev prevents the "normalization" of the…

President Barack Obama vowed on Tuesday to act quickly once he receives a State Department recommendation on whether to remove Cuba from the US list of terrorism-…

Iraqi forensic teams in the newly liberated city of Tikrit have started exhuming bodies from mass graves believed to contain some of the hundreds of soldiers killed by Islamic State militants last…

The Houthi command has not made a decision regarding potential attacks on Saudi Arabia, which has been leading international coalition efforts against the fighters in Yemen,…

South African authorities have detained a 15-year-old girl who was travelling to join the Islamic State (IS), the state security ministry said on Monday. The teenager was intercepted at Cape Town…

A Turkish court on Tuesday acquitted the last 62 military officers jailed over an alleged 2003 plot to oust then-prime minister Tayyip Erdogan, after the prosecutor said digital evidence was…

All parties involved in talks about North Korea’s nuclear program need to meet each other half way and address each other’s concerns to create conditions to resume negotiations, China’s foreign…

On April 2, half a dozen masked men stormed a university in the northeastern Kenyan town of Garissa, about 100 miles from the border with Somalia, killing a reported 148 students. The death toll…

Police in Lucknow, the capital city of Uttar Pradesh, India, will use drones armed with pepper spray to disperse unruly mobs.