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Kurdish protesters, angered by years of austerity and unpaid public sector salaries, set fire to the offices of political parties near the city of Sulaymaniyah on Monday, demanding that Iraq’s…

The US-backed Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis in Yemen has said it intercepted a ballistic missile south of Riyadh on Tuesday, according to Saudi state television station Al Ekhbariya.…

Opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said there is likely to be a British national election next year but that he opposes a second referendum on European Union membership, Grazia…

A total of 65 journalists were killed around the world in a year seen as the least deadly for reporters in 14 years, according to Reporters Without Borders (RSF). In its annual report published…

President Donald Trump will declare that China and Russia are competitors seeking to challenge US power and erode its security and prosperity, in a national security strategy he is set to lay…

Over 35,000 Iraqi security men were killed during the three-year war against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, an Iraqi military source said.

“The anti-IS war has left over…

The military campaign against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Syria should be completed in February following the end of fighting against the militant group in Iraq, French…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Monday she hoped to conclude exploratory talks with the Social Democrats (SPD) on forming a government by mid-January so that both parties can launch…

The Prime Minister of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), Nechirvan Barzani, on Sunday asked the Kurdistan Parliament to complete all legal procedures required to hold parliamentary and…

Saudi renowned billionaire, Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal is reported to have rejected a settlement with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (aka MBS)  in return for his freedom.

The…

The Palestinian leadership may turn to the UN General Assembly if Washington vetoes a draft UN Security Council resolution to reaffirm Beit-ul-Moqaddas (Jerusalem) status as unresolved, after US…

Militants stormed an intelligence agency training center in Kabul on Monday in an attack claimed by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, triggering an intense gun battle with Afghan…

The United Nations’ top human rights official has raised the prospect of Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi facing charges over the deaths and expulsion of thousands of Rohingya Muslims…

A trio of US and Japanese astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday for a two-day trip to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed.

French President Emmanuel Macron on Saturday celebrated his birthday at the iconic chateau of King Francois I, a choice denounced by critics as an example of how he is "cut off from the people…

Beyond preparing for the next field of battle, or advancing a massive arsenal that includes nuclear weapons, the Pentagon has also researched the possible existence of UFOs.

Russian TV journalist Ksenia Sobchak, who announced her intention to stand in the country’s presidential election, is ready to withdraw from the presidential race in case of a union with certain…

Witnesses and health officials say an airstrike by a US-backed Saudi-led coalition has struck a wedding procession east of Yemen’s capital, killing 10 women.

They say the Sunday…

Around 5,000 delegates from South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC)  gathered in Johannesburg on Sunday for a key conference to choose the ruling party’s next leader.

The…

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Sunday that Turkey wants to open an embassy in East Beit-ul-Moqaddas (Jerusalem), following a decision by the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to…

Chileans voted Sunday in a presidential run-off election but the outcome of Sebastian Pinera’s comeback bid is far from certain after an unexpected surge from the left.

About 14 million…

US President Donald Trump frequently casts his first year in office as a string of successes and campaign promises fulfilled. But less than a quarter of Americans think Trump has made good on…

Washington demands Kabul buy US-made weapons instead of 50,000 Kalashnikov rifles its security forces received gratis, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Friday.

A significant proportion of the guns and ammunition in the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group’s cache were manufactured in the European Union, according to a newly-published report by…

Austria’s far-right Freedom Party (FPOe) was in triumphant mood Saturday after agreeing a coalition deal with the conservatives, capping a year of successes for Europe’s nationalist movements.…