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At least 28 people, including 11 soldiers and 17 suspected Taliban militants were killed in two separate incidents in western Farah and Herat provinces Tuesday night. Farah governor’s spokesman…

The area controlled by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Syria has been reduced to less than 5%, the Russian Defense Ministry said, but human rights groups remain concerned about…

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday he was unhappy about the state of relations between Moscow and Berlin and that both sides needed to…

Combating terrorism and India’s role in war-torn Afghanistan dominated talks between US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his Indian counterpart Wednesday as Tillerson highlighted the US…

Republican Senator Jeff Flake has said US President Donald Trump’s “impulse to threaten and scapegoat” could turn the US into “backward people”.

Flake, in a dramatic speech on the Senate…

China’s President Xi Jinping is here to stay.

The new lineup for the Chinese Communist Party’s all-powerful Politburo Standing Committee (PBSC) was unveiled Wednesday, without an heir…

Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that his country's armed forces had largely completed their military mission in Syria's northwestern Idlib Province.

As he was…

Xi Jinping was elevated to the pantheon of China’s most powerful leaders Tuesday as his name was enshrined in the Communist Party Constitution alongside Chairman Mao.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson got a frosty welcome to Pakistan Tuesday after Washington turned up the heat on Islamabad for allegedly providing “safe havens” for Taliban militants.

The United States has announced new restrictions concerning engagement with the Myanmar military over the violence against the Rohingya Muslim minority in Rakhine State. Washington is also…

The emir of Kuwait, Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, warned of the collapse of the (Persian) Gulf Cooperation Council—an alliance of Persian Gulf countries—should the crisis with Qatar remain…

Leaders of India and Afghanistan on Tuesday expressed “firm resolve” to jointly fight against terrorism for the sake of regional peace and stability. Afghan President Ashraf Ghani is on a…

Palestinians in the UK have welcomed Jeremy Corbyn’s decision not to attend events organized by a pro-Israel group celebrating the Balfour Declaration centenary.

The Italian government is ready to open negotiations with Lombardy and Veneto after the two wealthy regions voted overwhelmingly for greater autonomy, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on…

A rapidly weakening typhoon Lan made landfall in Japan on Monday, setting off landslides and flooding that prompted evacuation orders for tens of thousands of people, but then headed out to sea…

US Sen. John McCain, in an interview about the Vietnam War, appeared to take a swipe at President Donald Trump when he criticized people from “the highest income level” who avoided the draft by…

Catalonia said on Monday it was confident all officials including police would defy attempts by Madrid to enforce direct rule on the region in a dispute raising fears of unrest among Spain’s…

Human rights activists are stepping up efforts to expose Israel’s long and covert history of supplying weapons and military training to regimes while they actively commit massacres, ethnic…

The US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Saudi Arabia is not ready to talk to Doha to end the months-long diplomatic crisis. Tillerson made the remarks during his ongoing visit to Qatar…

A Kurdish opposition group that opposed the recent referendum on secession from Iraq on account of poor timing has called for the Kurdistan Regional Government leader to resign.

Gorran,…

The presidents of Italy’s wealthy northern regions of Veneto and Lombardy on Sunday claimed victory in autonomy referendums that seek to grab additional powers and tax revenue from Rome, riding…

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, buoyed by a huge election win for lawmakers who favor revising Japan’s postwar, pacifist constitution, signaled a push towards his long-held goal on Monday but will…

The bodies of at least 67 Syrian civilians, many summarily killed by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, have been discovered in a central town in Syria retaken from IS by government…

Saudi Arabia and Iraq convened a new joint body to coordinate their fight against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group and on rebuilding Iraqi territory wrested from the group, Saudi…

US former president, Jimmy Carter, said he would be willing to travel to North Korea on behalf of the incumbent US administration to help diffuse rising tensions, The New York Times reported on…