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The Iraqi government has revealed that 45% of more than five million internally displaced people have returned back home.

Iraqi Migration and Displacement Minister Jassem al-Jaff said “…

On Monday, US National Security Advisor HR McMaster added to tensions in the Middle East when he condemned Turkey and Qatar as prime sponsors of extremist ideology.

He tore into the…

Two years after the Mediterranean migrant crisis shook the European Union, a tentative effort by the bloc to patch up differences over refugee policy has stumbled, revealing enduring rifts among…

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday voted 3-to-2 in favor of rescinding rules that aimed to ensure a free and open internet. Commonly referred to as the net neutrality…

Four adolescents were killed when a train smashed into a school bus on a level crossing outside the town of Perpignan in southwestern France on Thursday. Images from the scene showed the bus…

Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has valued the contribution of Iraqi Kurdistan Region’s forces (Peshmerga) in the country’s fight against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, a…

US-backed Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck a military police camp in the Houthi-controlled Yemeni capital Sanaa on Wednesday, killing at least 39 people and wounding 90 more, including some…

UN political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman said on Tuesday that senior North Korean officials told him it was important to prevent war but they did not commit to talks.

Feltmen met with…

Democrat Doug Jones won a bitter fight for a US Senate seat in deeply conservative Alabama on Tuesday, dealing a political blow to President Donald Trump in a race defined by sexual misconduct…

The Palestinian president said Wednesday his people will not accept any role for the United States in the Mideast peace process “from now on,” following President Donald Trump’s recognition of…

Life has stopped in its tracks in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State where an estimated 180,000 Rohingya remain, fearful after violence drove 650,000 to flee to Bangladesh, the International…

The Syrian opposition has said it wants direct talks with the government, as it attends a fresh round of meetings in Geneva to discuss political transition.

Al Jazeera correspondent…

As frigid winter weather sweeps over the Korean Peninsula, the United Nations has warned that punitive sanctions on North Korea could have unintended consequences for the country’s long-…

World leaders met in Paris Tuesday seeking to unlock more money to drive the global economy's shift to green energy, exactly two years after signing a global pact to avert worst-case-scenario…

Warring sides must let more aid get through to 8.4 million people who are “a step away from famine” in Yemen, a senior UN official said on Monday.

A US-backed Saudi-led military…

The European Union is complicit in the abuse of tens of thousands of migrants in Libya in order to stem migration from North Africa, Amnesty International said Tuesday.

The human rights…

Iraq is holding up to 50 Saudi members of the Islamic State arrested during the latest battles between security forces and the militant group.

Russia will keep a naval and an air base in Syria capable of carrying out strikes against “terrorists” if required after a partial military pull-out announced by President Vladimir Putin, the…

Senator Kirsten Gillibrand called on President Donald Trump Monday to resign over allegations of sexual misconduct, the latest of five lawmakers in the chamber to do so.

A 16-year-old Palestinian boy, shown in a photo that has been roundly condemned as symbolizing the Israeli army’s use of excessive force, has been accused of throwing stones at a group of armed…

The global trade in arms and military services increased again in 2016, for the first time in five years. It was up 1.9% on the previous year — and 38% compared to 2002.

The rape of Rohingya women by Myanmar’s security forces has been sweeping and methodical, the Associated Press news agency found in interviews with 29 women and girls who fled to neighboring…

Up to 6,000 Africans who fought for the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq and Syria could return home, the African Union’s top security official warned Sunday, calling on…

International Mountain Day 2017 was observed globally on Monday under the theme of "Mountains Under Pressure: Climate, Hunger, Migration".

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu took his case to Europe to ask allies to join the United States in recognizing Beit-ul-Moqaddas as Israel’s capital, but was met by a firm rebuff from…