Damascus - Several people were killed and others wounded on Sunday when a suicide bombing struck an eastern district of Damascus, Syrian state television reported.
It said security forces intercepted three suicide car bombers on Sunday morning, (...)
The terrorist who killed a policeman in New South Wales is believed to have been part of an extremist group.
Farhad Khalil Mohammad Jabar shot and killed police accountant Curtis Cheng, 58, in Parramatta, New South Wales on Friday. He was then (...)
House Republicans may be disinclined to disband the Select Committee on Benghazi with the presidential race heating up. But at the very least they should rename their laughable crusade, which has cost taxpayers $4.6 million, "the Inquisition of (...)
The U.N. Security Council will vote Friday on a draft resolution that would set up a panel to determine who is responsible for deadly chlorine gas attacks in Syria, diplomats said.
The vote was scheduled after U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry won (...)
Libyan peace talks are to resume next week as UN envoy Bernardino Leon presses on with efforts to strike a political settlement between the country's rival factions, his office said Thursday.
The next round is to be held Monday in Geneva, a source (...)
The U.S. Department of Defense announced, that the U.S. carried out its first air raid in Syrian territory to defend a group of rebels that it had been trained and equipped.
A spokesman for the Pentagon, Bill Orban, stated that the raid, which was (...)
Turkish forces on Saturday unleashed a third wave of airstrikes and ground attacks on ISIS targets in Syria and leftist Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.
"We have given instructions for a third series of (...)
Negotiators have proposed establishing a court to try possible genocide and war crimes in South Sudan, in the latest power-sharing peace proposal hoped to end a 19-month civil war.
Peace talks, led by the eight-nation East African IGAD bloc, have (...)
At least 21 people were killed in a new attack by suspected Islamists in a village in northeastern Borno state, causing many to flee, residents said Saturday.
"The terrorists stormed Maikadiri around 9:00 am (0800 GMT Friday) and opened fire on (...)
More than 1,200 migrants, mostly from sub-Saharan Africa and Syria, arrived in Sicily Saturday, after having been picked up in the Mediterranean, the Italian coastguard said.
Most of the migrants - including 133 women and 27 children - arrived in (...)
The Saudi-led coalition that has bombed Shiite rebels in Yemen since March unilaterally declared a five-day humanitarian truce from Monday to allow aid deliveries, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
The cease-fire will take effect from (...)
At least 45 civilians, including a number of women and children, were killed on Friday when the Syrian regime attacked opposition-held positions across the war-torn country, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
According to the (...)
An Iranian oil industry delegation has set off for Vienna to introduce investment opportunities in Iran's petrochemical industry to European investors following the removal of international sanctions against Iran.
According to a report by Mehr News (...)
Iran's top diplomat Mohammad Javad Zarif will visit Kuwait, Qatar and Iraq this weekend, the ISNA press agency said Friday, following a landmark nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
The accord, struck on July 14, which imposes certain (...)
Libyan security forces searching for four Italians kidnapped west of the capital this week have so far made no progress in finding them, an official said Friday.
The four, working for the Bonatti construction company, were near a complex of Italian (...)
Algerian Parliament Speaker Abdul Qadir bin Saleh will represent president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in the inauguration of the new Suez Canal scheduled on next August 6.
Egyptian ambassador in Algerian Omar Abou Aish said, in A statement to MENA News (...)
Civilian suffering in Yemen has reached "unprecedented levels," the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said Friday, warning that intensifying violence in the country's south was hamstringing emergency medical aid.
The ICRC voiced (...)
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz on Saturday inaugurated five new projects part of the third expansion of the Grand Mosque.
The expansion projects include the King Abdullah Expansion Structure, courtyards, tunnels, buildings for service (...)
Tunisia's status as a "non-NATO ally" of the United States has been approved, the U.S. State Department said, paving the way for enhanced military cooperation between the countries.
Washington hailed the partnership between the United States and (...)
Somalia's government said Saturday that 12 Shabab militants were killed in Friday evening's raids on two heavily-fortified Mogadishu hotels.
Internal Security Minister Abdirasak Omar Mohamed told reporters that "it was only them (the attackers) who (...)
Three children were killed on Saturday when a bomb exploded in the restive southern Afghan city of Kandahar, officials said.
The victims, all under the age of 10, had entered an empty shop to shelter from the hot summer sun when a bomb hidden inside (...)
Tunisian authorities have arrested 127 suspected "terrorists" since last month's massacre of tourists at a beach resort, the minister heading the crisis group on the incident said Saturday.
"Since the attack, the security forces have carried out (...)
More than thirty young people from the delegation of Remada, Governorate of Tataouine, have been missing since Monday evening after the Taraweeh prayer.
Their relatives fear they have illegally crossed the Libyan border to join armed groups.
These (...)
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ruling coalition lost a parliamentary vote Wednesday for the first time since taking office with a knife-edge majority in May.
The vote, on a technical issue regarding jurisdiction of state bailiffs, did (...)
A top-level meeting at the Iran nuclear talks this week was a stormy affair, Iranian media reported Wednesday, with the country's foreign minister warning: "Never threaten an Iranian."
The altercation happened Monday evening as foreign ministers (...)