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Israeli military appears to have deliberately targeted UN peacekeeping watchtower in Lebanon which left a Spanish UN peacekeeper dead back in January, a confidential military report said, citing…

The Islamic State (IS) has reportedly begun beheading captives after taking over the majority of a large Palestinian refugee camp in Syria.

Malaysian police have arrested at least 17 militants suspected of plotting a spate of terrorist attacks in the country's capital, Kuala Lumpur, news reports said, Sputnik…

Leader of the Czech Republic, Milos Zeman, says he won’t let any ambassador of another nation intrude with advice over his foreign visits. This comes as the US Ambassador criticized Zeman’s plans…

A Saudi policeman was shot dead and three were wounded during a raid which devolved into a gun battle in the eastern Saudi city of Awamiya on Sunday, state news agency SPA said, Reuters reported.…

Five people, including three children, were seriously injured in a shooting in the state of Indiana’s capital on Sunday, local Wish-TV channel said Monday. Indianapolis Police Department is…

North Korea has declared a no-sail zone for its ships off its east coast, South Korean media reported on Monday, suggesting more missile launches are possible before the US defense chief…

Pakistan’s defense minister says a Saudi-led coalition targeting Shiite fighters in Yemen wants it to contribute ground troops.

The comments Monday by Defense Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif…

The Kenyan air force bombed two al-Shabaab camps in Somalia on Sunday, a Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) source said, in the first major military response to last week’s attack by the militant group on…

Ukraine’s Interpol-wanted leader of extremist group Right Sector, Dmitry Yarosh, has been appointed as an adviser to the country’s Chief of General Staff. He has agreed to legalize thousands of…

Bangladesh’s Supreme Court has rejected a final appeal against a death sentence given to a senior Islamist leader.

Mohammad Kamaruzzaman of the Jamaat-e-Islami party was found guilty of…

Few politicians have garnered as many effusive public tributes after their death as Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore’s founder and long-serving former prime minister.

Pope Francis used his Easter blessing to urge the international community to address violence in Syria and Iraq and to pray for the victims of aggression and persecution across the globe.

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Yemen's Houthis are ready to sit down for peace talks as long as a Saudi-led air campaign is halted and the negotiations are overseen by "non-aggressive" parties, a senior Houthi member said on…

Yemen’s Houthi militiamen, supported by army units, gained ground in the southern city of Aden on Sunday, pushing back loyalists of the Saudi-backed President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi.

Kenya has begun three days of national mourning after the Garissa university campus rampage by al-Shabaab Islamist militants that left 148 people dead, nearly all of them students.

The medical personnel working at Lufthansa carrier failed to inform the German Federal Aviation Office, the Luftfahrtbundesamt (LBA) that co-pilot of the crashed Germanwings flight…

Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s chief of staff, Azlin Alias, and a former ambassador to the United States, Jamaluddin Jarjis, who was also a senior member of Najib’s party, were among six…

Regional armies have “no chance” of defeating the Islamic State (IS) horde if the terror group continues its brainwashing and recruiting campaign that replenishes its numbers with foreign fighters…

Leader of Ukraine’s ultra-nationalist Right Sector and Ukrainian parliamentarian Dmytro Yarosh is going to submit a bill to the country’s parliament on the creation of …

Russia’s active steps in boosting its air and missile defense capabilities are aimed against the potential threat of Prompt Global Strike which US “under certain conditions” might decide to carry…

Bangladesh opposition leader Khaleda Zia left her office Sunday for the first time in three months in a sign of easing tensions after deadly protests had plunged the country into a political…

Islamic State (IS) has taken control of 90 percent of a Palestinian refugee camp on the Damascus outskirts where 18,000 civilians have suffered years of bombing, army siege and militia control, a…

Officials in Ferguson, Missouri, have released the full content of racially charged and religiously insensitive emails, including about President Barack Obama, sent between the city’s…

Al-Shabaab militants have threatened Kenya on Saturday with further attacks after Thursday’s university campus massacre, warning the country’s cities ‘will run red with blood’.