International

Afghan President Ashraf Ghani and Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah are to visit the White House next month, and Ghani has accepted an invitation to speak to a joint meeting of Congress at a time…

The United States and Cuba said they made progress Friday in talks on restoring diplomatic ties and Washington could reopen its Havana embassy before a key April summit if differences are overcome…

British Prime Minister David Cameron defended the country’s security services after reports that a masked member of the Islamic State group known as “Jihadi John” had been on the UK’s terror…

India announced on Saturday a 7.9 percent increase in defense spending for the fiscal year starting April 1, suggesting that it will move only gradually with the military’s long wish list for…

An Egyptian court listed the Palestinian resistance group Hamas as a terrorist organization, judicial and security sources said on Saturday, one month after a judge listed the group’s armed wing…

Russian President Vladimir Putin condemned the murder of opposition politician Boris Nemtsov and said it was a “provocative act,” most likely an ordered killing, according to the Kremlin…

Mexico captured its most wanted drug kingpin on Friday, former primary school teacher Servando “La Tuta” Gomez. The 49-year-old gang boss was the prime target of President Enrique Pena Nieto’…

The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) avoided a partial shutdown as Congress passed a one-week funding extension, hours before a midnight deadline. The extension ensures the department’s…

A Picasso painting, snatched more than a decade ago from a storeroom in Paris, has surfaced in New York and will be returned to the French government, US officials said Thursday.

The…

A federal judge in Argentina dismissed a controversial case against President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner and her foreign minister.

Judge Daniel Rafecas said there wasn’t enough evidence…

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi’s suggestion that the region needs a joint Arab military force to deal with escalating threats from armed factions in lands like Libya is one of the most…

Ukrainian forces and pro-Russian rebels drew back some heavy weapons from the front line in the east Friday in compliance with a cease-fire deal, although officials in Kiev accused rebels of…

A former chief of Israel’s Mossad spy agency slammed the Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s handling of the Iranian nuclear threat and underlined as “pointless” his upcoming speech to…

A series of bombings and mortar strikes in and near the Iraqi capital killed eight people on Friday as Baghdad police discovered six bodies with gunshot wounds, officials said.

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US-led airstrikes and falling oil prices have cut Islamic State’s revenues from oil fields, and the militant group’s financial resources will further decline if it can’t capture new territory,…

Syria's refugee crisis is approaching a "dangerous turning point" as nearly four million Syrians face worsening living conditions in exile, the UN refugee chief warned Thursday.

Western powers should take into consideration Russia’s legitimate security concerns over Ukraine, a top Chinese diplomat said.

The masked “Jihadi John” killer who fronted Islamic State beheading videos has been identified as Mohammed Emwazi, a British computer programming graduate from a London family who was known to the…

At least 35 people ýwere killed on Thursday in two attacks in the northeast and central Nigeria, officials said. In the first attack, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a bus station,…

Yemeni ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is suspected of corruptly amassing as much as $60 billion, equivalent to Yemen's annual GDP, during his long rule, and colluding in a militia takeover last…

A court in Bangladesh issued a warrant on Wednesday for the arrest of opposition leader Khaleda Zia, amid a political stand-off in the country.

Zia is charged with embezzling $650,000 in…

France says it will begin shipping $3 billion worth of weapons paid for by Saudi Arabia to the Lebanese army in April.

The French Defense Ministry said in a statement…

A Palestinian mosque was set alight in the occupied West Bank on Wednesday and graffiti in Hebrew at the scene suggested the attack was carried out by a far-right Israeli group, officials said.

Avalanches caused by a heavy winter snow killed at least 108 people in northeastern Afghanistan, an emergency official said Wednesday, as rescuers clawed through debris with their hands to save…

Russia is concerned that many people in Kiev and outside Ukraine want a peace deal in the east of the country to fail, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday.