International

The agreed parameters of a Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) on Iran’s nuclear program that were reached Thursday between Iran and the P5+1 powers represent a monumental achievement that…

Thailand’s military has arbitrarily arrested 17 student activists in the troubled southern Narathiwat region, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Friday.

The arrested student activists are…

Iraqi Prime Minister Haidar al-Abadi on Friday called on security forces to arrest anyone breaking the law in the city of Tikrit, where looting has been taking place following the ouster of…

A French court summoned former Guantanamo prison chief Geoffrey Miller to answer allegations of torture leveled by two ex-detainees – a move that could open other civilian and military officials…

The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Saturday three shipments of aid and medical staff it is trying to send to Yemen were still blocked, despite appeals to the Saudi-led…

France BEA’s aviation investigators on Friday said the second black box recovered from the Germanwings crash site in the southern French Alps confirmed that co-pilot Andreas Lubitz had…

British police said on Saturday they had arrested six people at the southern English port of Dover on suspicion of terrorism offences related to the ongoing conflict in Syria.The five men and one…

Two bombs exploded in Cairo’s residential Imbaba district on Saturday, causing no casualties, Egypt’s state-run Al Ahram newspaper said on its website, Reuters reported.Ahram said the bombs…

Yemeni Houthi fighters and their allies seized a central Aden district on Thursday, striking a heavy blow against the Saudi-led coalition that has waged a week of air strikes to try to stem…

Some 150 inmates were freed when suspected al-Qaeda militants stormed a prison in the Yemeni port town of Mukalla on Friday. One of the escapees was provincial al-Qaeda leader Khaled Batarfi,…

The British town of Rochdale has hit the headlines once again on Friday. One of nine Britons accused of trying to illegally enter Syria is the son of the Labor Party’s town councilor, Shakil Ahmed…

Thirteen people are still missing following the sinking of the Dalniy Vostok fishing freezer trawler in the Sea of Okhotsk, a local emergencies source told RIA Novosti on …

The death toll has risen to at least 147 people after the siege of Garissa University College in Kenya on Thursday. The attack on the institution by masked Al-Shabaab gunmen, an Al-Qaeda splinter…

More and more European countries oppose an extension of anti-Russian sanctions and disagree with the German policy towards Russia.

Attempts to save “European unity” are doomed, the…

At a sprawling Bronze Age cemetery in southern Jordan, archaeologists have developed a unique way of peering into the murky world of antiquities looting: With aerial photographs taken by a…

Turkish security forces shot and killed an armed female assailant on Wednesday after she and a male accomplice tried to attack the police headquarters in Istanbul, Turkish officials said.

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China’s former security boss Zhou Yongkang has been formally charged with corruption and leaking of state secrets, setting the stage for him to become the highest-level politician to stand trial…

Modi’s election last year has brought some noticeable changes to relations between Asia’s two great powers, Nitin Gokhale wrote in The Diplomat.

The German foreign minister says talks with the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be necessary in order to find a way out of the four-year-long crisis in the Arab country.

Gunmen attacked Tunisia's national museum near its parliament on Wednesday, killing at least seven tourists and taking others hostage inside the building, the government said.

Foreign…

Three people were killed and four injured during a drive-by shooting in northern California on Tuesday night. A Stockton Police Department spokesman said police received a call about the…

There seems now to be a real possibility of an agreement between the Turkish government and the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) that would end the fierce struggle that dates at the least from the…

The international campaign to tackle the Islamic State may last decades if not a generation, Australia’s Foreign Minister Julie Bishop warned.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won a come-from-behind victory in Israel’s election after tacking hard to the right in the final days of campaigning, including abandoning a commitment to…

Yemen’s Shiite Houthi group on Tuesday released three leading members of the Muslim Brotherhood-linked Islah Party, two weeks after Houthi members abducted them in capital Sanaa.

The…