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The new prime minister of Yemen’s Houthi movement said Britain is guilty of war crimes in Yemen, accusing the country of participating in the bombing of civilians through its sales of arms to…

Rex Tillerson’s controversial nomination as secretary of state has delighted Moscow where the Texan oilman has deep and longstanding ties.

Donald Trump’s choice of the ExxonMobil chief was…

France’s Parliament voted early Wednesday to extend a national state of emergency until July 15, after next year’s elections.

The leaders of France and Germany, speaking two days before an EU summit to discuss the conflict in eastern Ukraine, said they want to extend sanctions against Russia due to a lack of progress in…

US president-elect, Donald Trump, on Tuesday formally announced Exxon-Mobil Chairman and CEO Rex Tillerson as his nomination to serve as US secretary of state.

“His tenacity, broad…

Workers building the 2022 World Cup stadiums in Qatar will remain at risk of forced labor because of “meager reforms” that “barely scratch the surface” of the Persian Gulf state’s exploitation of…

The overseers of the US intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyberattacks were aimed at helping Republican president-elect, Donald Trump, win the 2016 election,…

The Syrian Army has taken control over 98% of Aleppo’s territory, the Russian Center for Reconciliation of opposing sides said in a statement on Tuesday. “In the past 24 hours, the Syrian troops…

Francois Fillon, the conservative candidate currently seen as most likely to win next year’s French presidential election, said in a newspaper column on Tuesday that he had no plans to privatize…

A new IS attack on Palmyra from the Mosul region could be “orchestrated” to divert the attention of Syrian government forces from Aleppo and spare the militants entrenched in the city, Russian…

A US senator expressed doubt that the US-led coalition could have overlooked the advance of IS militants from Mosul toward Palmyra, pointing to the possible interests of the US and regional…

Voting is underway in Hong Kong to elect a committee, which is tasked with choosing the next leader of the Chinese-administered city in the upcoming election slated to be held in March next year…

Romania’s Social Democratic Party (PSD) has comfortably won the parliamentary elections, according to preliminary results, a year after a major anti-corruption drive forced the left-leaning party…

China has offered the Philippines government a firearms deal, President Rodrigo Duterte revealed in a speech on Dec. 11.

He said that he has directed Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana to…

The Chinese government has warned Donald Trump it is “seriously concerned” after the US president-elect indicated he might jettison a four-decade understanding with Beijing unless its leaders were…

The Syrian Army and militias have retreated from the central quarters of Palmyra to positions in the city’s suburbs, Al Ekhbariya television channel said on Sunday citing Homs Province Governor…

The Syrian Army has gained control of 93% of Aleppo’s territory, with 52 neighborhoods in the eastern part of the city liberated, the head of the Main Operations Department at Russia’s General…

Turkish police have detained 118 people in raids across Turkey targeting officials from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) over allegations of links to Kurdish PKK militants.

There has been no proof any secret services somehow influenced the outcome of the presidential campaign in the United States, Russian presidential spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said.

The Iraqi Army has sent reinforcements to eastern Mosul after IS fighters launched a ferocious counterattack last week, pushing back government forces and further slowing a nearly two-month-old…

Italian Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni has been asked to form a government by the country's president.

President Sergio Mattarella has been looking for a replacement for center-left…

Twenty-nine people, mostly police officers, were killed and 166 wounded in Saturday’s twin bombings in Istanbul, Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu said in a press conference on Sunday.

Egypt’s state-run television said 22 people had been killed and 35 injured in a blast, citing health ministry officials.

Local media reported the explosion hit St. Peter’s Church next to…

At least 10, including a government soldier and the suspected suicide bomber, were killed in a car explosion at a security checkpoint on the outskirts of the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on Saturday…

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un guided a special operations drill targeting the South, the North’s media reported on Sunday, as rival South Korea remained on alert for any attempt by the North to…