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A massive car bomb struck a town in eastern Libya under control of the country’s internationally recognized government on Friday, killing at least 40 people, according to an army spokesman.

Denmark announced a $150 million package to boost police and intelligence services on Thursday, a move that comes days after deadly shootings in Copenhagen but was prepared earlier…

Australia on Friday said France, Germany and Japan were potential partners to design and build its next generation of submarines, in what will be its biggest ever defense procurement program.

The murder of three American Muslims at a University of North Carolina condominium on February 10 was no ordinary murder, nor is the criminal who killed them an ordinary thug.

Nigerian forces killed more than 300 Boko Haram militants during an operation to recapture 11 towns and villages since the start of the week, the military said on Wednesday, as regional neighbors…

The leader of Boko Haram, AbuBakr Shekau, said in a new video that Nigeria’s presidential election on March 28 will not take place peacefully. In the video, Shekau warns President Goodluck…

Denmark’s domestic intelligence agency (PET) said it was warned by prison officials about the man who killed two people in Copenhagen. It said it received a report in September saying that the man…

Militants from Islamic State (IS) burned to death 45 people in the western Iraqi town of al-Baghdadi, the local police chief said Tuesday.

Exactly who the victims were and why they were…

The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko said on Wednesday his forces are making an “organized” withdrawal from the embattled town of Debaltseve.

Poroshenko said before flying to the town…

More than 150 Palestinian children are being held in Israeli detention for “security offenses” in the occupied territories, and almost half of them in conditions that are in contravention of the…

The Syrian government is willing to suspend its aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of the northern city of Aleppo so that a local ceasefire can be tested, the United Nations…

A large majority of Americans believe that Republican congressional leaders should not have invited Netanyahu to speak to Congress without consulting the White House, according to a new joint CNN-…

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi vowed Wednesday to end the country’s status as the world’s number one defense importer, saying he wanted 70 percent of hardware to be manufactured domestically…

Military chiefs are expected to gather in the Saudi capital on Wednesday to assess the battle against Islamic State militants, diplomatic sources said.

The two-day meeting, a follow-up to…

The European Union (EU) Tuesday announced the release of the first tranche of its 2015 financial support to the Palestinian Authority and to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for…

Fifteen years ago, the UN enshrined the idea that equality between men and women is inextricably linked with peace. It’s time to act on that,  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, executive director of UN…

The suspect in the fatal shooting of three young students near the University of North Carolina last week was indicted Monday on murder charges.

Craig Stephen Hicks, 46, was indicted on…

A train hauling crude oil derailed and exploded in West Virginia, displacing up to 1,000 residents and contaminating the local water supply.

At least 27 of the train’s more than 100 cars…

At least 86 Boko Haram militants and five soldiers were killed in clashes between the Cameroon army and Boko Haram militants in the country’s far north on Monday, authorities said.

The “…

A Taliban suicide bomber on Tuesday killed at least seven people and himself in a brazen attack on police headquarters in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore, in what militants called a revenge bid…

The leader of the French National Front Party, Marine Le Pen urged the French government to recognize Crimea as part of Russia’s territory and to restore ties with Moscow, a “natural ally of…

Egypt called on the international community on Tuesday to intervene against Islamic State militants in Libya.

President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said that what was happening in Libya was a…

The UN has agreed to Sri Lanka’s request to delay a long-awaited report into alleged atrocities committed during Sri Lanka’s 26-year civil war. The UN rights chief said he recommended the deferral…

North Korea said on Monday it is not worried about a threat to refer the country to the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity, because it is not guilty.

The European Union placed further Russians and Ukrainians under sanctions on Monday, accusing them of "undermining or threatening" Ukraine's independence.