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A mass grave containing 100 decapitated bodies has been discovered inside a school south of the city of Mosul held by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, according to the Iraqi military…

Yemen's 20-month war has killed more than 7,000 people and wounded nearly 37,000, the World Health Organization said, as the UN envoy voiced alarm over the worsening humanitarian situation.

Floods in Vietnam’s central, central highland and southern provinces have left 15 people dead and six missing and displaced thousands, the Department of Natural Disaster Prevention and Control…

Iraqi Kurdish peshmerga forces attacked a town in the northeast of Mosul held by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group on Monday, trying to clear a pocket of militants outside the city…

The FBI lifted the threat that Hillary Clinton could face charges over her emails, leaving White House rival Donald Trump to demand that US voters punish her at the ballot box.

With just…

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, once seen as the frontrunner to become the next president of South Korea if he decides to run, has slipped to second place in public support amid a political…

PM Theresa May said her government will stick to the Brexit plan despite a court ruling allowing parliamentarians to vote on when to start talks.

May said on Sunday that she valued the…

US-backed militants said on Sunday they were launching an operation to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa, the de facto capital of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group.

A South Korean court said on Sunday it had issued arrest warrants for two former presidential aides under investigation in an influence peddling scandal that has sent President Park Geun-hye’s…

US forces in Afghanistan conceded on Saturday that their airstrikes in the northern province of Kunduz had “very likely” resulted in civilian killings.

At least 32 people, including babies…

Democratic US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds a five-point lead over Republican Donald Trump in the latest Washington Post-ABC Tracking Poll released early on Sunday.

In a Post…

Three Palestinians were wounded, one critically, after being attacked by Israeli settlers on Saturday in the village of al-Janiya in the central occupied West Bank district of Ramallah…

Some 1,000 protesters in the center of Istanbul were confronted by tear gas and water cannon on Saturday, as they tried to reach the offices of the “Cumhuriyet” newspaper, nine of whose…

British Prime Minister Theresa May warned lawmakers on Sunday not to block Brexit, after the High Court ruled that she cannot start the process of leaving the European Union without the parliament…

Bulgarians voted Sunday in a first round of presidential election, a key test of Prime Minister Boyko Borisov’s popularity in the EU’s poorest country.

If his candidate and protégée,…

Iraqi security forces drove the fighters of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group from the center of a town just south of the militants’ main stronghold of Mosul on Saturday and reached…

Three US troops were killed in a shooting attack outside a Jordanian training facility on Friday, a US official said, following earlier reports that one or two US personnel were dead.

Tens of thousands of South Koreans protested in central Seoul on Saturday in one of the largest demonstrations in the country's capital for years, calling on embattled President Park Geun-hye to…

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said his war on drugs had cut back the supply to “very low” levels and thanked China for supporting his crackdown, but swore repeatedly at ally the United…

The next UN chief Antonio Guterres emphasized Friday the need for a strong partnership with the United States to address the world’s ills, including wars, human rights violations and climate…

The FBI and New York Police Department said on Friday they were assessing the information they had received about the possibility of a terror attack against the US next Monday, the eve of the…

One day after Britain’s High Court ruled the government needs parliament’s approval to initiate the process of leaving the European Union, Germany’s foreign minister cautioned the UK…

The self-styled Islamic State terrorist group said on Friday that it was behind a car bombing that killed nine people in Kurdish-dominated southeastern Turkey, according to US-based…

Iraq’s federal police forces and army troops attacked the town of Hammam al-Alil, south of Mosul, held by the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group on Saturday, as Iraqi-led coalition forces…

A US army air raid in Afghanistan last month killed one of the senior Al-Qaeda leaders in the country, the Pentagon said.