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A bill that would allow families of the 9/11 attack victims to sue the Saudi Arabian government in US federal court is heading for President Barack Obama’s desk after the House of Representatives…

Marching with thousands of other pilgrims at last year’s hajj in Saudi Arabia, 23-year-old Sobia Noor of Pakistan felt the crowd get tighter and the air grow thicker in the scorching heat.…

The US-led war on the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group has depleted the group’s funds, leadership and foreign fighters, but the biggest battle yet is expected later this year in Iraq’s…

A senior commander of the Syrian militant group formerly known as Al-Nusra Front has been killed near Aleppo, militant sources say.

The group currently known as Jabhat Fateh al-Sham said on…

Ankara has dismissed thousands of Kurdish teachers for alleged links to the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK).

President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has also announced a massive operation to cull the…

North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear test on Friday, setting off a blast that was more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima and said it had mastered the ability to mount a warhead on a…

A policeman in France has been stabbed during an operation to arrest three women in connection with a car found with gas canisters near Paris’ famous Notre Dame Cathedral last Sunday. Police…

Former Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has left her official residence in the capital Brasilia for the last time following her impeachment and removal from office.

US President Barack Obama floated the idea of joint action with Turkey to capture the Syrian city of Raqqa from the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said…

The US has killed 13 Al-Qaeda operatives in counterterrorism strikes in Yemen. The strikes were made between August 24 and September 4, as the US heightened its strategy of ousting the terror…

Aiming to cement closer ties with Laos and its people, President Barack Obama toured a Buddhist temple on Wednesday and paid tribute to Lao culture after pledging the US would fulfill its “…

Several people have died after a police helicopter crashed in the western state of Michoacan.

The state’s governor, Silvano Aureoles, originally said criminals brought it down, though now…

An EU mission has questioned the validity of elections that saw Gabon’s president, Ali Bongo, reelected by a very narrow margin. France has recommended a recount and the African Union said it will…

Three Turkish soldiers have been killed in a rocket attack by militants of the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in northern Syria.

The US State Department has urged Bahrain to immediately release the prominent human rights activist, Nabeel Rajab.

A spokesman said the US was “very concerned” about Rajab’s detention and…

The US State Department and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton on Tuesday stressed the need for ties with the Philippines to be based on mutual respect, after Manila’s new leader…

Australia will offer more help to Southeast Asian countries to prevent terror attacks across the region. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is set to discuss security with other leaders at the ASEAN…

Hundreds in Myanmar rallied on Tuesday against an advisory commission led by former UN chief Kofi Annan to find solutions to the conflict between the country’s Buddhists and minority Rohingya…

Turkish warplanes destroyed 12 targets in northern Iraq late on Monday, the military said, striking a region where Ankara says the leadership of Turkey's outlawed Kurdish militant group PKK is…

China and Britain should increase mutual political trust and appropriately handle disputes, Chinese President Xi Jinping told British Prime Minister Theresa May, as the two nations grapple with a…

The UN’s human rights chief has launched a scathing attack on western populist politicians, branding them “demagogues and political fantasists”.

Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein singled out Dutch far-…

US President Barack Obama has canceled what would have been the first meeting with his Filipino counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte. The move came after Duterte, who has since voiced “regret”, described…

At least 23 inmates have died after a fire at an Ethiopian prison where anti-government protesters are reportedly being held, the government has said. A government statement said 21 died of…

Afghan security forces ended an 11-hour standoff in central Kabul on Tuesday, killing the last gunman holding out after an attack that began when a car bomber blew himself up in a prosperous…

Six explosions hit government-controlled areas and a province held by a Kurdish militia in Syria on Monday morning, killing dozens of people, state media and a monitor said.