Chinese President Xi Jinping Friday told Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the two countries should work to "appropriately" manage their differences, the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement online. "(China and India) should strengthen multilateral communication and...

 A small air craft was found on a mountain near the border with North Korea, South Korea's military said Friday. A team has been dispatched to the area to search for the object, a South Korean military official, who declined to be identified because he is not authorized to speak to...

The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen has risen to more than 100,000 since an outbreak began on April 27, the World Health Organization said Thursday. The rapid spread of the disease through 19 of Yemen’s 23 governorates highlighted a humanitarian catastrophe in Yemen after two...

Police fired tear gas as clashes erupted Thursday between them and demonstrators in the Moroccan city of Al-Hoceima, epicentre of a protest movement that has shaken the northern region for months. The tear gas was fired as dozens of young people threw stones at the riot police in the alleys...

Despite defeats in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has reorganized and is now "more focused than ever" on attacking Europe and other areas outside that conflict zone, a senior UN official said Thursday. "ISIL, despite continuous military pressure, continues to resist, particularly in Mosul and Raqa,"...

A recent military operation foiled an attempt to set up an organized ISIS group base in the country's southwest, the Pakistani army said Thursday. The Taliban-linked Sunni sectarian outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Almi was working to establish the ISIS foothold, the army said in a statement....

 Israeli authorities said Thursday they had foiled a plot by Arab citizens to attack an Israeli soldier in revenge for the March killing of a Hamas commander. The Shin Bet domestic security agency said it had arrested seven people from the Israeli town of Jaljulya, about 26 kilometers...

 A French photojournalist who has been held in Turkey for a month saw his mother on Thursday for the first time since being detained, in an "emotional" meeting near the Syrian border. "It was very emotional for both sides. I saw my son crying because he was so moved," Daniele Van de...

A highly charged Senate hearing opened Thursday with fired FBI director James Comey to testify on his bombshell allegations suggesting President Donald Trump sought to interfere with a probe into Russian election meddling. Hundreds of people squeezed into a jam-packed room, some waiting in...

A 27-year-old American who joined ISIS and agreed to be a suicide bomber was convicted Wednesday of helping the extremist organization, US prosecutors said. Mohamad Jamal Khweis had traveled in December 2015 to ISIS's Syrian stronghold of Raqqa after quitting his job, selling his car and...

A self-proclaimed commander of Albanians fighting with Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, notorious at home in Kosovo for a video showing him beheading a man, has been killed, police and his family said on Thursday. Lavdrim Muhaxheri died in the Middle East, but it was not clear in which...

Russia is hosting the United Nations envoy for Syria for talks focusing on future peace negotiations. Speaking at the start of Thursday's meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Staffan de Mistura said it comes at a "delicate important moment." He stressed the importance of...

An attack by Boko Haram militants on the northern Nigerian city of Maiduguri killed 14 people and wounded 24 others, police said on Thursday, the first official toll. Maiduguri is the epicenter of the eight-year fight against Boko Haram which has been trying to set up an ISIS in the...

 Iran's intelligence ministry said on Thursday five of the detained suspects linked to the attacks in Tehran participated in ISIS terrorist activity in Syria's Raqqa and Iraq's Mosul, state TV reported. "They five arrested terrorists were Iranians. They earlier left Iran and conducted...

Israel has advanced plans for a further 1,500 homes in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank, Peace Now said on Thursday, the second such announcement in a week. More than 3,000 units have been advanced this week, a spokeswoman for the NGO that tracks settlement building in the...

Germany is pledging an additional 3.5 million euros ($3.9 million) to help improve conditions for refugees in Libya. On an unannounced visit to Tripoli on Thursday, Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said many migrants in Libya "are in a desperate situation." The money, to be paid by 2018,...

The U.N. human rights office has reports of a "significant escalation" of Iraqi civilians being killed by ISIS as they try to flee Mosul, and reports of 50-80 deaths in an air strike on the Zanjili district on May 31, it said on Thursday. "Credible reports indicate that more than 231...

( The Guardian )- Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Thursday that US President Donald Trump’s reaction to the deadly Islamic State group attacks in Tehran was “repugnant”.  “Repugnant WH [White House] statement... as Iranians counter terror backed by US clients,”...

Bodies and aircraft debris were found in the sea off the southern coast of Myanmar on Thursday by ships searching for a military plane that went missing with 122 soldiers, family members and crew on board. Ten bodies, six adults and four children, were found about 35 km (22 miles) off the...

A Virginia man who joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq for three months, all the while evading the scrutiny of U.S. intelligence officials, was convicted Wednesday on terrorism charges despite his protestations that he was only there to "check things out." The jury in U.S. District Court took only...