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An Austrian teenager has been charged on several terror-related counts, including inciting and instructing a 12-year-old German-Iraqi boy to carry out an attack on a Christmas market, Austrian…

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s job security is in question after taking withering fire from fellow Republicans this week, including from two prominent House conservatives who called on him…

People in war-torn Yemen are facing a situation that “looks like the apocalypse”, the UN’s humanitarian chief has told Al Jazeera, warning that the country  could become the worst…

Israel’s military says a teenage Palestinian girl, who is being hailed as a “national hero” could face up to 14 years in prison after being indicted for allegedly assaulting a pair of Israeli…

Already setting turnover records, US President Donald Trump’s White House is bracing for even more staff departures and an increasing struggle to fill vacancies, shadowed by the unrelenting…

Saudi authorities have detained 11 princes after they gathered at a royal palace in Riyadh in a rare protest against austerity measures that included suspending payment of their utility bills,…

The Sudanese army has deployed thousands of troops on its borders with Eritrea, after Egypt sent its own soldiers, in coordination with the UAE, to an Eritrean base in Sawa. According to Al-…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said Ankara is “tired” of its sluggish European Union membership process, noting that it cannot indefinitely be requesting to join the bloc.

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Thousands of victims’ bodies are still under the rubble in Mosul, an Iraqi MP has said, urging the government to help the refugees return back to their homes.

In televised remarks, MP…

A political storm is brewing ahead of UK Prince Harry’s and Meghan Markle’s May 19 wedding over whether to crack down on homeless people and beggars in the well-to-do English town of Windsor.

North Korea agreed on Friday to hold official talks with the South next week, the first in more than two years, hours after the United States and South Korea delayed a military exercise amid a…

US President Donald Trump faced a new public relations crisis on Friday with the publication of a tell-all book that depicts him as mentally unstable and in over his head, after his lawyers…

A mutual delegation representing three Kurdish political parties issued a statement on Thursday while in Baghdad where they met Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi.

An aid agency projects 48,000 babies will be born this year in the refugee camps for Rohingya Muslims who have fled to Bangladesh after military operations against them in Myanmar.

A suicide bomber in the Afghan capital caused dozens of casualties on Thursday after blowing himself up close to a group of security personnel who were carrying out an operation against illegal…

About two-thirds of Germans believe that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s best times are behind her, according to a new survey published Thursday. The poll, carried out by Die Welt daily and public…

Saudi Arabia says it has intercepted a ballistic missile fired towards the country by Yemen’s Houthi fighters.

The Saudi statement came just hours after the Yemeni group claimed to have…

Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu called on Friday for a fresh start in his country’s rocky relationship with Germany, holding out the prospect of closer economic cooperation,…

Palestinian leaders said on Wednesday they will not be "blackmailed" after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut aid worth more than $300 million annually, his latest provocative move that…

A suicide bomber killed 11 people on Wednesday in an attack on a mosque in northeast Nigeria, the epicenter of the conflict with extremist insurgency Boko Haram, military officials and an aid…

North Korea has reopened a suspended border hotline with South Korea, a day after Seoul offered high-level talks to discuss Pyongyang's participation in the 2018 Winter Olympics.

The…

Norway has suspended exports of weapons and ammunition to the United Arab Emirates over concerns they could be used in the war in Yemen, the Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday.

Ethiopia has announced plans to release political prisoners and shutter an infamous prison in the capital, Addis Ababa, in a surprise move the government says aims to “foster national…

The commander of US forces in the Middle East wants the Afghan military to follow a new strategy in 2018 he hopes will lead to new gains in the war against the Taliban, Associated Press reported…

Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives resumeed on Wednesday drawn-out talks with Germany’s second biggest party aimed at ending months of post-election stalemate and forming a coalition…