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President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the partial withdrawal of Russian troops from Syria, during a surprise visit to the war-torn country.

Putin arrived at Russia's Hmeimim airbase…

More Salafists are living in Germany than ever before, domestic intelligence chief Hans-Georg Maassen said on Sunday.

Maasen said the number of people adhering to the fundamentalist…

In comments related to a scandal involving the sale of Greek army missiles and bombs to Saudi Arabia, the spokeswoman of New Democracy party, Maria Spyraki, claimed that arms sold by the Greek…

India’s opposition Congress party named Rahul Gandhi as its new leader on Monday after years of speculation, calling it a “historic occasion”.

Senior Congress leader Mullappally…

The US, Japan and South Korea kicked off a two-day missile-tracking exercise on Monday as China warned that such military assertions in the volatile Korean peninsula would not help in reducing…

French and Algerian fighters, some arriving from Syria, have joined the ranks of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in northern Afghanistan where the militants have established new…

Turkey-EU ties are currently marked by mutual resentments and appear to be going nowhere. In a sign of the times, Brussels is withholding 175 million euros ($206 million) in pre-accession funds…

A delegation of Syria’s government, led by the country’s ambassador to the UN, Bashar Jaafari, arrived in Geneva on Sunday to participate in the talks. He chose not to answer questions from…

Amid ongoing controversy over the US decision to move its embassy to Beit-ul-Moqaddas, a Bahraini delegation has arrived in Israel to “send a message of peace”, according to media reports.

Several thousand supporters of opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili are rallying in the Ukrainian capital of Kiev to demand his release from jail.

Saakashvili, the former president of…

Germans increasingly see Russia as a more reliable partner than the US, a new study released on Saturday has found.

The poll of 1,004 people by research institute Infratest dimap showed…

Israeli airstrikes in Gaza killed two Palestinians on Saturday after rockets were fired from the enclave, in violence that erupted over US President Donald Trump’s recognition of Beit-ul-…

North Korea blamed US “nuclear blackmail” for soaring tensions over its weapons program following rare meetings with a senior UN official, but agreed to regular communication with the…

More than half of Germans are against another “grand coalition” between Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservative CDU/CSU bloc and the Social Democrats, a new poll has revealed.

US President Donald Trump is trying to push embattled GOP senate candidate Roy Moore across the finish line in Tuesday’s election in Alabama by contending the Democratic nominee would oppose “…

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Saturday that Iraqi forces had driven the last remnants of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group from the country, three years after the militant…

The US has urged the Saudi-led coalition to “facilitate the free flow of humanitarian aid” in Yemen as millions suffer in the war-torn country due to the land and air blockade imposed by the…

Iraq on Saturday announced the end of UN sanctions imposed on the country following its invasion of neighboring Kuwait in 1990. In a statement, the Iraqi Foreign Ministry attributed the…

Nearly 200,000 residents have been evacuated from their homes in California as firefighters battle several raging wildfires.

Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency in San…

Thousands of protesters in Muslim-majority countries in Asia rallied on Friday to condemn the US decision to recognize Beit-ul-Moqaddas as Israel’s capital, as authorities tightened security…

Britain and the European Union struck a divorce deal on Friday that paves the way for arduous trade talks, easing immediate pressure on Prime Minister Theresa May and boosting hopes of an…

A painting by the Renaissance master Leonardo da Vinci, sold by Christie’s auction house last month, was bought by the controversial Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, according to US…

Lebanon’s prime minister appealed for support for his country from world powers at a summit Friday convened by France to bolster Lebanon’s institutions as it emerges from a bizarre political…

Democratic Sen. Al Franken of Minnesota is resigning following allegations that he touched women inappropriately, he announced on the senate floor Thursday.

“I am announcing that in the…

The United Nations peacekeeping chief says 14 peacekeepers have been killed in an attack in eastern Congo. Jean-Pierre Lacroix says on Twitter that the attack occurred Thursday evening in North…