International

Wealthy nations have only taken in a “pitiful” number of the millions of refugees uprooted by Syria’s conflict, placing the burden on the country’s ill-equipped neighbors, Amnesty International…

President Ashraf Ghani outlined his vision for a more self-reliant Afghanistan at a conference in London on Thursday as he welcomed the withdrawal of foreign combat troops after 13 years.

Ukraine and the pro-Russian rebels said Thursday they had agreed to halt fire on December 9 under the terms of a truce aimed at ending one of Europe’s bloodiest conflicts in decades.

Mexican police shot and killed six people Thursday during a raid in a state wracked by drug cartel violence, an official said.

Another seven people were arrested and two kidnapped people…

Forces allied to one of two rival governments vying for power in Libya launched an air strike near Tripoli on Thursday, officials and residents said, in a struggle that began when one…

A militant attack on an army camp in Indian Kashmir killed seven soldiers and three police on Friday, an official said, as the tense Muslim-majority state votes in local elections.

Three of…

Terrorism is being exported to the Middle East from Europe, especially from France, said Syria’s President Bashar Assad in an interview to French media. He also criticized western states for…

Insurgents launched a brazen attack in the Chechen capital Grozny on Thursday that sparked heavy clashes with security forces, leaving 19 dead and a central market burnt. Militants barricaded…

Prosecutors at the International Criminal Court in the Hague have said they are withdrawing charges against Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta. A statement said the evidence had “not improved to such…

A military cooperation agreement that Russia and Pakistan signed during Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu’s recent visit to Islamabad marks an important shift in relations between those two…

NATO foreign ministers on Tuesday formally approved the launch of a new advisory mission for Afghanistan after alliance combat operations end December 31.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sacked his finance and justice ministers on Tuesday, signaling the break up of his bickering coalition and opening the way for early national…

More than 180 Muslim Brotherhood supporters have been sentenced to death in Egypt over a 2013 attack on a police station near Cairo.

The attack took place on the same day as Egyptian…

International efforts to defeat the extremist militant group IS have already degraded the group’s operations in Syria and Iraq, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Wednesday, as he…

Iraq’s interior ministry said on Wednesday that Saja al-Dulaimi, the  woman recently detained by Lebanese authorities, was not the wife of IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but the sister of a…

At least 4 people were killed in a suicide car bomb blast next to a UN convoy in Somalia on Wednesday. The attack took place near the airport in the capital, Mogadishu. The United Nations and the…

President Barack Obama has chose Ashton Carter, a Pentagon official, to be his fourth defense secretary, succeeding departing Secretary Chuck Hagel, according to a US official. Hagel…

Are the United States, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Russia on a mad spiral leading to yet another war in Europe? Is it inevitable? Far from it, wrote Pepe Escobar for Asia Times…

US President Barack Obama has requested $263m (£167m) to improve police training, pay for body cameras and restore trust in policing.

Obama asked Congress for the funds after a week of…

Former Polish prime minister Donald Tusk took over as president of the European Council of EU leaders on Monday, promising strong leadership in foreign policy and “ruthless determination” to end…

Somali militants known as al-Shabab have killed some 36 quarry workers near the north Kenyan town of Mandera, police say.

The attackers separated Muslims from non-Muslims and shot the…

A group of IS supporters has released a video that it says shows its members carrying out a shooting in Saudi Arabia last week of a Danish national who survived the attack, SITE Monitoring…

Namibian Prime Minister Hage Geingob has won the country’s presidential election, the Electoral Commission said Monday, with the ruling SWAPO party securing a landslide win in national polls…

The head of Sweden’s new minority government will resign if the opposition wins a budget vote on Wednesday with support from the anti-immigration Sweden Democrats. “It is out of the question that…

Iraq’s government and the autonomous Kurdish region have reached an agreement resolving a longstanding dispute over the budget and oil, in a move seen as a key step in improving cooperation…