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Local media reported Tuesday citing provincial officials that at least nine Afghan security forces had been killed when repelling attacks by the Taliban terrorist group in Afghanistan's western…

Yemen's Houthi rebels have accused the US-backed Saudi-led coalition of bombing the country's main international airport, destroying a navigation station that is critical to receiving already…

Four people were killed and nearly a dozen wounded, including two children, when a gunman went on a rampage Tuesday, randomly picking his targets at a school and other locations in rural…

A senior Chinese diplomat will visit North Korea from Friday as a special envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, Beijing said, although it did not say he was planning to discuss North Korea’s…

German parties meet on Wednesday on the hot issue of immigration with sides divided on whether to limit migrant numbers and with only one day left to conclude exploratory talks for forming a new…

Turkey on Tuesday said it was appalled by the approach of the US Department of Defense towards an agreement between the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia and the self-styled Islamic State terrorist…

Zimbabwe’s army said Wednesday it has President Robert Mugabe and his wife in custody and was securing government offices and patrolling the capital’s streets following a night of unrest that…

Iraqi Kurdish authorities said on Tuesday they would accept a court decision prohibiting the region from seceding, signaling a new phase in efforts to restart stalled negotiations over its…

Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi faced rising global pressure Tuesday to solve the crisis for her nation’s displaced Rohingya Muslim minority, meeting the UN chief and America’s top diplomat in…

The German government approved nearly €450 million ($526 million) worth of weapons exports to Saudi Arabia and Egypt in the third quarter of 2017, more than five times the €86 million it sold in…

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has said that by introducing the new sanctions against Russia, the US has explicitly branded Russia as “an enemy”. “New US sanctions against the Russian…

The presence of three US aircraft carriers off the Korean Peninsula is pushing the region closer to nuclear war, according to a North Korean letter to the United Nations secretary-general.

Be extra careful of the male lawmakers who sleep in their offices —they can be trouble. Avoid finding yourself alone with a congressman or senator in elevators, late-night meetings or events…

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday that those who do not believe in a military solution in Syria should pull their troops out, after Russia and the United States said no…

Donald Trump declared Monday he had a “great relationship” with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, a controversial figure who is waging a drugs war that rights groups say involves mass murder…

Catalonia’s deposed president said he might consider a solution to Spain’s political crisis that did not involve the region’s secession, appearing to soften the staunchly pro-independence stance…

Papua New Guinea officials deployed police vehicles and buses around a shuttered Australian refugee camp Monday as a deadline passed for some 400 detainees to move from the controversial centre…

German Chancellor Angela Merkel enters the final stretch of preliminary talks to form a new government on Monday as factions in the complex multi-party negotiations remain far apart on issues…

Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Monday he was pleased by Saad al-Hariri’s comment that he would return to Lebanon soon to discuss his resignation as prime minister, presidential palace…

Riot police have used water cannons to prevent hundreds of protesters reaching the US embassy in Manila, just a few hours before the arrival of President Donald Trump in the Philippines for a…

As France prepares to mark the second anniversary of the November 2015 Paris attacks, Interior Minister Gerard Collomb has warned that the terrorist threat remains “very high,” with a number of…

An Iraqi official says mass graves found in an area recently retaken from the self-styled Islamic State group could contain up to 400 bodies. Kirkuk Governor Rakan Saed said Sunday that the…

Amira Bint Aidan Bin Nayef, the ex-wife of the Saudi Prince Al Waleed bin Talal, who was recently arrested in scope of the anti-corruption purges in the country, went on a rampage against the…

Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy visited Catalonia for the first time on Sunday since Madrid imposed direct rule on the region, a day after hundreds of thousands of Catalans marched to…

US President Donald Trump took his verbal jousting with Kim Jong-Un to a new level Sunday, taunting the North Korean leader over his height and weight before musing over the idea of them…