Madrid---Spain said Tuesday it had broken up an online network accused of recruiting young women to join Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq...
Madrid---Spain said Tuesday it had broken up an online network accused of recruiting young women to join Islamic State militants fighting in Iraq...
Baghdad---Iraqi officials have expressed irritation and analysts scepticism at the US prediction that an offensive to retake Iraq's key city of Mosul from...
Beirut---Jihadists from the Islamic State group have kidnapped at least 90 Assyrian Christians in northeast Syria, a monitor said on Wednesday. The abductions...
Ex-premier Ahmed Nazif Cairo---An Egyptian court acquitted a former prime minister and an ex-interior minister of corruption charges in a retrial Tuesday, the...
Kiev---Foreign ministers from Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France were set to gather Tuesday to try to revive a shaky ceasefire in east Ukraine...
Raul Castro Havana---Cuba's ruling Communist Party has agreed to hold a party congress next year and approve a new electoral law, state run...
Tokyo---Japan appears set to relax rules to let pilots fly until they are 67 as it tries to ease a shortage created by...
Seoul---South Korea and the United States said Tuesday they would launch their annual joint military exercises on March 2, setting the stage for...
Kandahar, Afghanistan---Masked gunmen abducted 30 Shiite Muslim men who were travelling on a bus through central Afghanistan, officials said on Tuesday. The men,...
Yangon---Dozens of female prisoners were injured in a fierce firefight between rebels and soldiers in northeastern Myanmar following an attack on a government...
Seoul---South Korea and the United States said Tuesday they would kick off their annual joint military exercises on March 2, setting the stage...
Jean-Yves Le Drian New Delhi---France's defence minister will on Tuesday hold talks with his Indian counterpart in a fresh bid to nail a...
Jakarta---An Indonesian court on Tuesday dismissed a bid by two Australian drug traffickers on death row to avoid execution by challenging the president's...
French President Francois Hollande Paris---French President Francois Hollande vowed Monday to introduce tougher penalties for "racist, anti-Semitic or homophobic" remarks in the wake...
Paris---At least five drones were spotted flying over central Paris landmarks during the night and the operators have not been apprehended, a security...
Tokyo---A Nigerian woman who has campaigned against Islamist extremists Boko Haram was on Tuesday awarded a Japanese peace prize worth $170,000. Esther Ibanga,...
Russia's Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov Moscow---Russia voiced confidence on Tuesday that world powers and Iran would be able to reach a comprehensive...
Prime Minister Tony Abbott Sydney---Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was on Tuesday accused of "scapegoating" an entire community and inciting "ill-feeling" after telling...
