An Australian man sent his unsuspecting brother to Sydney airport to catch an Etihad Airways flight carrying a home-made bomb disguised as a meat mincer built at the direction of a senior Islamic State commander, police said on Friday. Detailing one of Australia's worst known militant plots,...

Hundreds of Haitians are streaming across the U.S. border into Canada, fearing deportation by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to aid workers and Quebec officials who have opened Montreal's Olympic Stadium to help process the influx. About 400 to 500 Haitian asylum seekers walked into...

New U.S. sanctions will make it harder for Russia to build two gas export pipelines to Europe but the projects are unlikely to be stopped. U.S. President Donald Trump has reluctantly signed into law further sanctions on Russia but some of the measures are discretionary and most White House...

Neymar's plan to leave Barcelona for Paris Saint-Germain on a record-smashing transfer has hit a snag. The Spanish league said Thursday that representatives of Neymar tried unsuccessfully to pay the 222 million euro ($262 million) buyout clause that would release the Brazil star from his...

The U.S. embassy in Turkey denied Turkish media reports that the United States had sent tanks and hundreds of truckloads of weapons into Syria to support the Kurdish YPG militia. In a statement posted on social media, the embassy said the U.S. has not provided tanks to any groups fighting...

 The commander of Libya's self-styled national army in the east has ordered naval bases to confront any vessel entering the country's territorial waters without military permission. A statement released by the forces of Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar Wednesday says the command was...

A military appeals court in Jordan has upheld the life sentence of a Jordanian soldier in the shooting deaths of three U.S. military trainers last year. First Sgt. Marik al-Tuwayha, was sentenced by a military court last month to life in prison with hard labor for killing the Americans at...

 Iran's supreme leader formally endorsed Hassan Rouhani as president in a ceremony broadcast on state television on Thursday, after Rouhani secured a second term in a landslide election win on May 19. Addressing religious, military and political leaders, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...

Washington is seeking talks on how North Korea can be suspended from Asia's biggest security forum as part of a broader effort to isolate Pyongyang diplomatically and force it to end its missile tests and abandon its nuclear weapons program, U.S. and Philippine officials said. Acting...

Turkey has vowed to root out militants plotting against China as the two countries pledged to collaborate on a security issue that had been a source of friction. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday in Beijing that Turkey would treat matters of China's security as its own,...

The U.S. military in Afghanistan says that four American troops were wounded in the same suicide bombing near the city of Kandahar the previous day that killed two U.S. service members. The statement released in Kabul on Thursday says their injuries are not life threatening. It followed...

The Russian Foreign Ministry says Moscow is reserving the right to take further retaliatory measures in response to a sanctions bill signed by U.S. President Donald Trump. The statement contrasts with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov's earlier statement that "retaliatory measures already have...

Turkish authorities have arrested a freelance French journalist on charges of links to a Kurdish militia Ankara regards as a terror group, the latest foreign reporter to run into trouble in the country, judicial sources said on Wednesday. Loup Bureau, who has worked in the past with French...

The EU said Wednesday it was ready if needed to retaliate within days against new U.S. sanctions on Russia, but believes Washington wants to spare European energy firms from any fallout. U.S. President Donald Trump reluctantly signed off on the new sanctions against Russia Wednesday, bowing...

Italian authorities on Wednesday impounded a German NGO's migrant rescue boat on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration, police said. The Iuventa, operated by the Jugend Rettet organisation, was impounded on the Italian island of Lampedusa on the orders of a prosecutor based in...

Germany Wednesday accused Hanoi of kidnapping an asylum seeker on German soil, as Berlin furiously summoned Vietnam's ambassador and expelled one of the south-east Asian nation's spies. "The kidnapping of Vietnamese national Trinh Xuan Thanh on German soil is an unprecedented and scandalous...

Daesh (ISIS) Wednesday claimed responsibility for a suicide attack a day earlier against a Shiite mosque in Afghanistan that left dozens dead. "Around 50 Shiites killed and 80 wounded in an attack by [Daesh] fighters yesterday on a mosque in western Afghanistan's Herat," the group's...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stopped an Israeli lawmaker from taking on a Jordanian counterpart in a fist-fight on Wednesday over a diplomatic crisis between the two neighbors. The July 23 shooting to death of two Jordanian nationals by an Israeli embassy guard who said he was acting in...

Any Russian private citizens fighting with pro-government forces in Syria are volunteers and the Russian Defense Ministry has nothing to do with them, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told a conference call with reporters on Wednesday. Based on accounts from families and friends of the dead...

Neymar has arrived at Barcelona's training grounds amid widespread rumors that the Brazil striker could make a record-breaking move to Paris Saint-Germain. Neymar drove into Barcelona's training center in Sant Joan Despi on the outskirts of the city on Wednesday at 9:00 a.m. local time, a...