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At least 13 people have been killed and many more injured in a car bomb attack in Afghanistan’s southern province of Helmand, officials say.

The attack on Sunday targeted a military…

The Myanmar army has been accused of carrying out extrajudicial killings in the restive Rakhine region, with residents and activists accusing soldiers of shooting indiscriminately at unarmed…

Rescue crews raced against rising floodwaters early on Sunday to pull hundreds of stranded residents from their homes and cars in southeast Texas as Harvey, the most powerful storm to hit the…

Hundreds of thousands of peace marchers flooded the heart of Barcelona on Saturday shouting “I’m not afraid” — a public rejection of violence following extremist attacks that killed 15 people,…

President Obama’s former communications director Dan Pfeiffer blasted President Trump over a report that he had asked Attorney General Jeff Sessions to drop the federal criminal case against…

The Lebanese Army has announced a pause in fighting on the Syrian-Lebanese border to allow negotiations over its troops held by self-styled Islamic State terrorist group. Syrian forces are also…

Infighting among Yemen fighters turned deadly for the first time since they joined forces in 2015, al-Masdar news website reported, further fraying their alliance against a Saudi-led attempt to…

The death toll from monsoon floods in India, Bangladesh and Nepal has climbed above 1,200, as rescue workers scramble to provide aid to millions of people stranded by the worst such disaster in…

Colombia’s leftist FARC rebel group will debut its political party at a conference beginning on Sunday, a key step in its transition into a civilian organization after more than 50 years of war…

Most French voters are now dissatisfied with Emmanuel Macron’s performance, a poll showed on Sunday, a dramatic decline for a president who basked in a landslide election victory less than four…

Chancellor Angela Merkel, the front-runner in next month’s German election, said she’d change nothing in her approach to Europe’s refugee crisis two years ago if she had the chance. “I would…

Iraqi forces are about to take full control of Tal Afar, the self-styled Islamic State’s stronghold in northwestern Iraq, in a swift campaign against the outnumbered, exhausted militants, an…

Hurricane Harvey settled over southeast Texas early Saturday, lashing the state’s gulf coast with damaging winds and dumping torrents of rain over hundreds of miles of coastline that braced for…

North Korea fired several short-range missiles into the sea off its east coast early on Saturday, South Korea and the US military said, as the two allies conducted annual joint military drills…

We were too scared to leave our homes, and most of the shops were shut down or burned,” a resident of Awamiya, in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern province, told me this month. “Anything that moved became…

France will assist in reconstruction and reconciliation efforts in Iraq as it emerges from the war with the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian…

Donald Trump started as the most unpopular new president in the history of modern polling. After seven months, things have only gotten worse.

Germany stands on the front line of a new Cold War, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said, and Chancellor Angela Merkel was making a grave error by following US President Donald Trump down the…

For Muslim pilgrims in Qatar who hoped to perform one of the pillars of Islam, the annual hajj that began this week is out of reach. This is because Saudi Arabia —which oversees and manages…

Mobs rampaged across a north Indian town on Friday, leaving 13 people dead and buildings in flames, after a court declared a quasi-religious sect leader guilty of raping two of his followers,…

Russian nuclear-capable strategic bombers have flown a rare mission around the Korean peninsula at the same time as the United States and South Korea conduct joint military exercises that have…

Iraqi forces have “completely surrounded” fighters with the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in the northern city of Tal Afar, according Iraqi and US officials.

“The enemy is…

Former Thai PM Yingluck Shinawatra has fled abroad, sources say, ahead of a verdict in her trial over a rice subsidy scheme.

Sources in her party say she made the decision to leave…

A suicide bomber detonated himself at the gate of a Shia Muslim mosque in the Afghan capital as other attackers stormed the building, killing at least 14 people as worshippers gathered for…

Militants in Myanmar staged a coordinated attack on 30 police posts and an army base in Rakhine State on Friday, and at least 59 of the insurgents and 12 members of the security forces were…