KIEV-- Ukrainian separatists carried out sporadic attacks on government forces as the New Year began, wounding three soldiers, the Kiev military said, as...
KIEV-- Ukrainian separatists carried out sporadic attacks on government forces as the New Year began, wounding three soldiers, the Kiev military said, as...
KABUL--Afghanistan on Thursday launched an investigation into whether the army was responsible for mortars fired into a wedding party that killed at least...
RIYADH--A Saudi convicted of drug trafficking became the first person executed in 2015 in the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom which beheaded 87 people last...
Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi ISLAMABAD--A Pakistani court Thursday sent the alleged mastermind of the 2008 Mumbai attacks to jail for two weeks in the latest...
Bashar al-Assad DAMASCUS--Syrian President Bashar al-Assad saw in the New Year with a rare visit to a combat zone to rally the troops,...
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories--The Palestinians faced a fresh diplomatic battle Thursday after taking steps to join the International Criminal Court in a move strongly...
TEL AVIV--Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu won another term as leader of the ruling rightwing Likud ahead of a snap election, the faction...
KANO--A suicide bomber blew himself up outside an evangelist church in northeast Nigeria on Thursday, injuring several people, witnesses and a rescue worker...
COLOMBO--Sri Lanka's opposition Thursday accused the government of deploying thousands of troops to deter ethnic minority Tamils from voting against President Mahinda Rajapakse...
BEIRUT--Two women identifying themselves as Italian aid workers kidnapped in Syria have appeared in a video urging their government to seek their release....
STOCKHOLM--Swedish police were hunting Thursday for at least one suspect following what is believed to be the third arson attack on a mosque...
CAIRO--Egypt's top court Thursday ordered a retrial of three Al-Jazeera reporters whose imprisonment on charges of aiding the Muslim Brotherhood triggered global outrage,...
SANAA--The death toll from a suicide bomb attack on a religious celebration by Shiite militia supporters in central Yemen has risen to 49,...
KANEOHE, United States--President Barack Obama -- still on vacation in Hawaii -- spent New Year's eve with loved ones at home, the White...
SURABAYA--AirAsia Indonesia said Thursday it had suspended a pilot after he failed a random drugs test, days after 162 people were killed when...
KIEV--Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko promised to defeat the "cruel-hearted foe" trying to break his former Soviet republic apart, in a traditional New Year's...
ISLAMABAD--Pakistan and India on Thursday exchanged lists of their nuclear sites under an agreement barring them from attacking each other's atomic facilities in...
Ali Salman DUBAI--Bahrain has urged Iran to look at its own human rights record after it called for the immediate release of the...
