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Over the past 48 hours, up to 50,000 people have been evacuated from East Aleppo, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov reported.

“More than 20,000 residents…

Donald Trump’s presidential transition team on Saturday challenged the veracity of the US intelligence assessments that Russia was trying to tip the November election to the Republican.

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The US sent a “planeload of FBI agents” to Iceland in 2011 to frame WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, according to a former Icelandic minister of interior, who refused them any cooperation and…

A suicide bomber from a local affiliate of IS has killed at least 48 Yemeni soldiers at a military base in the southern port city of Aden, in another major attack claimed by the group. A security…

The CIA has concluded that Russia intervened in the 2016 election to help President-elect Donald Trump win the White House, and not just to undermine confidence in the US electoral system, a…

The United States will send another 200 troops to Syria to help an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters seize the IS bastion of Raqqa, US defense secretary, Ashton Carter, has said.

“I can…

Mongolia says China has closed a key border crossing, creating huge congestion, nearly a week after the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, visited the country.

Hundreds of truck…

At least 45 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in the northeastern Nigerian town of Madagali in Adamawa state, officials say.

Two female suicide bombers detonated their…

Gambian President Yahya Jammeh has rejected the result of the election that saw him deposed as leader by a former Argos security guard a few weeks ago.

In an announcement on state TV, he…

The main opposition challenger to Ghana’s incumbent president has won the country’s presidential election, according to official results released late Friday.

“It is my duty and my…

Turkish jets carried out airstrikes in the Gara region of northern Iraq on Friday and killed 19 Kurds, Turkish military sources said on Saturday. According to Reuters, the warplanes took off from…

The German defense minister was in Saudi Arabia on Thursday aiming to conclude a training deal for Saudi military officers, eliciting sharp criticism from German left-leaning parties.

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Russia and Cuba signed a program of technology cooperation in the defense sector until 2020 on December 8.

The document was signed at the meeting of the Russian-Cuban intergovernmental…

Six policemen were killed and three wounded on Friday when a roadside bomb exploded near a security checkpoint in Cairo, the interior ministry said.

The attack, close to a government…

The International Institute of Strategic Studies, an influential UK diplomacy and security think tank run by prominent military, political, and business figures, has received over $38 million in…

South Korean President Park Geun-hye is fighting for her political life after MPs voted to impeach her over a corruption and cronyism scandal that has made her the country’s most unpopular leader…

Turkey is sending 300 more troops to northern Syria to reinforce an operation aimed at pushing the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group and Syrian Kurdish fighters away from its southern…

At least one civilian was killed and dozens of others wounded during protests in Indian-administered Kashmir that erupted after a gun battle between fighters and security forces.

Police…

US President Barack Obama has ordered a waiver for restrictions on military aid for foreign forces and others in Syria, deeming it “essential to the national security interests” of the US to allow…

China said on Wednesday the governor of the US state of Iowa, Terry Branstad, was an “old friend” after a report that he had accepted president-elect Donald Trump’s offer to become the next US…

There are unlikely to be any survivors from a Pakistan International Airlines plane carrying about 40 people that crashed on Wednesday in a mountainous northern region, a government official at…

China has urged the United States to block Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen from transiting through the US on her way to Central America next month.

Tsai’s travel plans come at a…

MPs are set to vote for the first time on the government’s plan to trigger Brexit by the end of March next year.

Prime Minister Theresa May agreed on Tuesday to publish her plan for leaving…

At least 20 killed, including 10 soldiers, in central DR Congo as security forces clashed with armed fighters.

At least 20 people have been killed in the central region of the Democratic…

At least 92 people were killed and hundreds injured after an earthquake measuring 6.4 on the Richter scale hit Indonesia’s Aceh Province.

Television footage showed flattened houses and…