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China condemned the US Defense Department’s annual report on the Chinese military on Sunday, calling it deliberate distortion that has “severely damaged” mutual trust.

More than a dozen suicide bombers attacked a residential and government complex outside Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least six people, as well as a gas factory near Baghdad in which 14 people…

Despite military gains against Boko Haram, a summit of West African and international leaders held in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, has been urged to do more to stop the extremists’ deadly insurgency…

Egypt has jailed protesters who opposed a decision to transfer islands to Saudi Arabia. The demonstrators have been given prison terms of between two and five years.

Nearly 300 people were…

Syrian government forces retook a hospital in Deir al-Zor after the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group attacked it on Saturday following a dawn offensive by the militants on the besieged…

Venezuela’s opposition on Saturday slammed a state of emergency decreed by President Nicolas Maduro and vowed to press home efforts to remove the leftist leader this year amid a grim economic…

Three people have been killed and 23 taken to hospital after a mass brawl at a Moscow cemetery, apparently sparked by a dispute about jobs, police say. Russian news reports said up to 200 people…

More than 50 people across Bangladesh have died after being struck by lightning in the past two days, police say. Many of the dead were farmers who were killed as they worked in their paddy fields…

Brazil's suspended president, Dilma Rousseff, has criticized the new interim government created by her former vice president, Michel Temer, for being entirely made up of white male politicians. It…

Despite a transition to democracy in Myanmar, the US plans to renew sanctions when they expire next week and hopes the Southeast Asian country will not backtrack on reforms.

Thousands of people attended the funeral in Lebanon’s capital, Beirut, of top Hezbollah military commander Mustafa Amine Badreddine.

Badreddine was killed in artillery fire by militants,…

US President Barack Obama praised Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Iceland at a star-studded state dinner on Friday, lauding the nations for their global influence on civil rights,…

Kizza Besigye was charged with treason after being arrested in Kampala the day before President Yoweri Museveni’s inauguration. Treason is punishable by death in Uganda, although no executions…

The Afghan government is expected to finalize a peace deal with a notorious militant insurgent group within days, marking a breakthrough in attempts to end the 15-year war, an official and a…

The UN Security Council has said it is alarmed by ties between Nigeria’s Boko Haram militants and the self-styled Islamic State terrorists.

In a statement, it said Boko Haram, which pledged…

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared a 60-day state of emergency on Friday due to what he called plots from within the OPEC country and the United States to topple his leftist government…

China is expected to add substantial military infrastructure, including surveillance systems, to artificial islands in the South China Sea this year, giving it long-term “civil-military bases” in…

Eight Turkish soldiers and 22 Kurdish militants have been killed in clashes over the last two days, authorities said on Friday, as violence widened in the largely Kurdish southeast following two…

Belgium will extend its F-16 airstrikes against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group in Iraq into Syria, the government said on Friday, as it grapples with the aftermath of deadly IS-…

Fighting has continued throughout Syria as an international rights group accused militants of indiscriminately targeting civilians.

Syrian militant groups backed by Turkey and Saudi Arabia…

Russia has reacted strongly to the deployment of a US missile system in Romania, calling it a “threat” to its security.

The defense system became operational Thursday amid increased…

China and the United States should manage their differences over disputed waters in the South China Sea constructively, one of China’s top military officials has said.

Top Hezbollah commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in an attack in Syria, the Lebanese group said on Friday, the biggest blow to the organization since its military chief was killed in…

Donald Trump and House Speaker Paul Ryan have said they are “totally committed” to party unity in a statement following their meeting.

The two are trying to find common ground after Ryan…

The new acting president is calling for unity in Brazil, while the leader just suspended by the Senate is vowing to fight what she calls a coup, underscoring the deep political polarization in…