International

While the true motives behind the Chapel Hill shooting have yet to be made known (and may never be), the great pains to which the media has gone to avoid discussions of Islamophobia has not gone…

Forces loyal to Yemen’s former president seized government buildings in the southern city of Aden on Monday after a five-hour battle, sources said, escalating a civil conflict that threatens to…

Any Israeli-Palestinian peace deal must lead to improved living conditions for Palestinians to prevent violence between the two from erupting again, former British prime minister Tony Blair said…

The Italian coastguard rescued more than 2,000 migrants in a major operation off the Libyan coast, officials say.

During the rescue, search teams were threatened by Kalashnikov-wielding men…

India sealed a nuclear energy agreement with Sri Lanka on Monday, its first breakthrough with the new government of the tiny state in the Indian Ocean where China has been building ports and…

Egypt’s military said in a statement on state television that it had carried out an airstrike against Islamic State targets in Libya on Monday, after the militant group released a video on Sunday…

Two men suspected of helping the gunman behind the deadly attacks in Copenhagen faced a court hearing Monday as Danes mourned the victims of a shooting spree that authorities said may have been…

More than 1,900 flights had been canceled Sunday as the latest winter storm to hit the Northeast US snarled air traffic in the region. The hardest-hit airports were in New England, while all…

A Bahraini appeals court upheld a 6-month sentence for one of the leaders of the main Shiite opposition group, the defendant’s lawyer said. Jameel Kadhim, a member of the al-Wefaq group, was…

In view of the current mass exodus from Kosovo, German Chancellor Angela Merkel called for a fair distribution of asylum seekers within the European Union.

Japan, reeling from the murder of two nationals by the Islamic State, will offer an extra $15 million in aid to fight terrorism in the Middle East and Africa, a report said on Sunday.

The…

Ukraine's rebels disavowed a new truce on Sunday hours after it took effect, saying it did not apply to the town where most fighting has taken place in recent weeks.

Guns fell abruptly…

Thousands of people in Turkey took to the streets on Saturday in protest at the murder of a young woman who allegedly resisted an attempt by a bus driver to rape her.

Hundreds of women…

Egyptian and Saudi naval troops and units on Saturday started the main part of a joint naval exercise for the protection of the two countries’ territorial and economic waters in the Red Sea.

Danish police shot and killed a man early Sunday suspected of carrying out shooting attacks at a free speech event and then at a Copenhagen synagogue in Denmark, killing two men. Five police…

A Pakistani high court declared the country’s former military president Pervez Musharraf incompetent for contesting parliamentary elections, a court record said Saturday. The court found Musharraf…

South African President Jacob Zuma outlined new proposals which would ban foreigners from owning land in the country. Locals will have limits set on the size of their farms under the proposals.…

The Palestinian government on Saturday condemned as “terrorism” the killings of three young Palestinian-Americans in North Carolina and called on US authorities to include its investigators in the…

Bahraini police fired tear gas to disperse   protesters who took to the streets Saturday on the fourth anniversary of a pro-democracy uprising.

Police deployed heavily as men and…

Kurdish forces have regained control of at least 163 villages around the Syrian town of Kobane after driving back Islamic State militants in the past three weeks, a group monitoring the conflict…

The sale of 24 French-built Rafale fighter jets to Egypt has been hailed as a triumph by French politicians and industry chiefs. But little attention has been paid to the decision to sell arms to…

The prosecutor who inherited a high-profile case against Argentine President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner on Friday reaffirmed the accusations, formally renewing the investigation into whether…

The Islamic State militant group carried out a coordinated suicide bombing attack against an airbase in western Iraq housing 320 US Marines.

The Pentagon confirmed IS forces have taken…

The Ukrainian military said on Saturday there was no let-up in a pro-Russian offensive in east Ukraine with separatists trying to seize more territory before a ceasefire comes into force at…

At least 844 Palestinians were killed as a result of airstrikes on homes during Israel’s summer war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, according to an Associated Press investigation. The youngest…