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The prime minister of Kurdistan Regional Government, Nechirvan Barzani, has said that his government will not hand over the Iraqi region’s oil to the federal government in Baghdad, contrary to…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday threatened to expand Turkey’s offensive in Syria against a Kurdish militia despite calls for restraint from its western allies.

On the seventh…

A veteran American diplomat has resigned from a panel set up to advise Myanmar about the Rohingya crisis calling it a “whitewash” and questioning Aung San Suu Kyi’s “moral leadership”.

France’s overcrowded prison system is on the brink of mutiny after two weeks of unrest, the jails ombudsman said on Friday, with hardline labor unions vowing no surrender in a showdown with…

Pope Francis on Wednesday condemned fake news as satanic, saying journalists and social media users should shun and unmask manipulative “snake tactics” that foment division to serve political…

Prosecutors moved closer to a possible interview with US President Donald Trump about whether he took steps to obstruct an FBI probe into contacts between Russia and his 2016 campaign as…

Turkish Deputy Prime Minister Bekir Bozdag said on Wednesday he did not think Turkey will come face-to-face with the United States as it carries out military operations in Syria, seeing only a…

UN member states have criticized Israel for failing to abide by human rights laws and UN resolutions during a heated Human Rights Council session; some described it as an “apartheid” entity.

Venezuela will hold a presidential election by the end of April, the ruling Constituent Assembly said Tuesday, pulling forward a vote in which President Nicolas Maduro hopes to triumph over a…

The US has firmly rejected a Russian-drafted Security Council resolution seeking to establish an objective investigative mechanism to probe all allegations of chemical attacks in Syria “based on…

An attack on Save the Children’s office in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad has ended with at least two people killed and 20 wounded, an official said on Wednesday.

“The fighting has…

Twin car bombs exploded as people left a mosque in a residential area of the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, killing 33 and wounding over 30 in an attack timed to cause mass casualties among…

France braced for floods on Tuesday as the Rhine threatened to overflow and the rapidly rising Seine forced Paris authorities to halt trains on a busy commuter line.

The UK police are actively investigating a group of United Arab Emirates officials for torture and cruel treatment inflicted on several Qatari nationals, a human rights lawyer has said.

Syria and Iraq are among the potential buyers of Russia’s S-400 air defense missile systems, Russian upper house’s Defense and Security Committee Chairman Viktor Bondarev told Sputnik. Potential…

NATO Deputy Secretary General Rose Gottemoeller arrived in Ankara Monday on a long-planned visit that was unrelated to Turkey’s current military campaign against a Kurdish enclave in the…

FBI Director Chris Wray threatened to resign as US Attorney General Jeff Sessions called on him to fire his outgoing deputy, Axios reported on Monday.

Egypt’s army has arrested its former chief of staff and presidential hopeful Sami Anan, a top aide from his presidential campaign told media.

The Supreme Committee of the Armed Forces in…

The number of mass graves containing the remains of people from  the Iraqi Yazidi minority discovered in  Mosul has reached 70.

The repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh to Myanmar, which was slated to begin on Tuesday, has been delayed amid fears among officials that some refugees would be forced to return…

The Catalan parliament on Monday proposed Carles Puigdemont as candidate for president, dealing a blow to central government efforts to derail an independence movement that has plunged Spain…

Deaths caused by diphtheria, a serious bacterial infection, are “likely to rise” in Yemen if a blockade imposed by a US-backed Saudi-led military coalition is not lifted, a major international…

The European Union assured Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas it supported his plan to have East Beit-ul-Moqaddas as capital of a Palestinian state, in the bloc’s latest rejection of US…

Germany’s Social Democrats (SPD) voted on Sunday to begin formal coalition talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives, moving Europe’s economic powerhouse closer to a stable government…

Israel will not prosecute a guard from its embassy in Amman who killed two Jordanians in July, as had long been demanded by the kingdom, two Israeli sources said to Reuters on Sunday.