Britain says the European Union will sanction 16 Syrians it is convinced are involved in chemical weapons attacks against civilians there, targeting military and scientific officials. British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said ahead of Monday's meeting of EU foreign affairs ministers that...

Pakistan's Supreme Court on Monday began hearings that will decide the future of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who is fighting for his job and contesting a damning corruption report by an investigative panel. The Supreme Court is expected to either put Sharif on trial on corruption charges,...

Australia's military will be given greater power to act during terror attacks, the prime minister said Monday, following a review of security forces' responses to a spate of local and international incidents. Among a raft of changes, police will no longer have to wait until they have...

A top Kurdish counter-terrorism official said Monday he was 99 percent sure that Daesh (ISIS) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was alive and located south of the Syrian city of Raqqa, after speculation that Baghdadi had been killed. Lahur Talabany also told Reuters that after its defeat Daesh...