South African police and military forces are deploying ahead of a speech in parliament by President Jacob Zuma, the target of protesters who say he should quit because of corruption allegations. Zuma will give an annual address on the economy and other matters of national importance Thursday...

The Kremlin said Thursday it was unlikely that the situation in eastern Ukraine, where pro-Russian separatists are ranged against the Ukrainian army, would be part of any deal with U.S. President Donald Trump. When asked how preparations for a meeting between Trump and President Vladimir...

The exiled former leader of the Maldives announced Thursday he would return to run for election as president of the troubled Indian Ocean nation, despite facing jail after a controversial conviction on terror-related charges. Mohamed Nasheed said he had decided to challenge President...

Russia views Romania as a NATO outpost and as a threat due to it hosting elements of a U.S. anti-missile shield, the Interfax news agency reported Thursday, citing a Russian foreign ministry official. The U.S. military, which says the shield is needed to protect from Iran, not threaten...

A total of 44 ISIS fighters were “neutralized” over the last 24 hours as part of Turkey’s Operation Euphrates Shield in northern Syria, the military announced Thursday. Turkish Armed Forces, who use the word "neutralized" to refer to killed, wounded or captured terrorists, also hit 253 Daesh...

(Financial Times)- There was a time when “Abu Ahmad”, a bulky man with a heavy limp, held court in the smoke-filled cafés of southern Turkey. Fellow Syrian opposition leaders looked to him for help; foreign intelligence officers sought his opinion. When he crossed into Syria, he brought bags...

Iraq's main oil export terminal, off the southern city of Basra, resumed loading after a 24-hour halt because of work to install a new pipeline feeding the facility, an executive at state-run South Oil Co said Thursday. Loadings stopped at midnight Tuesday and resumed midnight Wednesday, he...

Hundreds of South Korean artists sued President Park Geun-hye and former aides on Thursday for trying to silence them with a blacklist of writers, actors and others critical of the scandal-plagued administration. Park's former presidential chief of staff and her culture minister have been...

(Daily Mail)- German police have warned refugee groups against visiting carnival celebrations because of the risk of 'undesirable interactions' with local people. The North Rhine-Westphalia state police said they feared what would happen if there were 'mass appearances of refugees and asylum...

Donald Trump's nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, on Wednesday described the president's Twitter attacks on the judiciary as "disheartening and demoralizing," Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal said. Gorsuch spokesman Ron Bonjean, a Republican strategist hired by the White...

(Wall Street Journal)-American military airstrikes last week killed nearly a dozen al Qaeda militants in Syria, including a top-ranked operative, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. One strike Feb. 3 killed 10 al Qaeda militants gathered near Idlib, Syria, and a second on Feb. 4 killed Abu...

Belgium's terror monitoring centre has expressed concerns about the spread of Saudi- and Gulf-backed fundamentalist Islam in the country's mosques, according to an official report published in local media Wednesday. The OCAM national crisis centre said the austere Sunni doctrine of Wahhabism...

Thirty-two combatants were killed Wednesday in the battle for a key coastal town in western Yemen between government forces and Shiite Huthi rebels, officials said. The deaths occurred as forces loyal to President Abed-Rabbou Masnour Hadi advanced into neighborhoods of Mokha and Huthis...

Belgian police detained 11 people after a series of raids across Brussels overnight as part of an investigation into possible returning fighters from Syria. The federal prosecutors said in a statement on Wednesday that police had carried out searches at nine addresses in various districts of...

Forces fighting ISIS should be able to retake the ISIS-held cities of Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria within the next six months, according to the top U.S. commander in Iraq. On a tour north of Baghdad Wednesday, U.S. Army Lt. Gen. Stephen Townsend said "within the next six months I think...

A military chief of a self-proclaimed Russian-backed republic in eastern Ukraine was killed in an "act of terror" Wednesday, the latest victim of a string of similar attacks, local authorities said. The dead man was Mikhail Tolstykh, 36, head of the notorious "Somali" battalion and a leading...

Yemen’s top diplomat said the country has called for a “reassessment” of a Jan. 28 raid that left multiple civilians and a U.S. service member dead, but did not issue an outright ban on future American-led missions, a report said Wednesday. The statement by Yemen’s foreign minister,...

Six Red Cross workers have been killed and two others are missing in northern Afghanistan, the international charity said Wednesday, underscoring the growing dangers faced by aid workers in the war-battered country. They were killed in the volatile province of Jowzjan, the charity added,...

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said on Wednesday he could be forced to suspend security cooperation with Israel if the ramp-up of Israeli settlements continued. "If the colonization continues, I would have no other choice, it would not be my fault," Abbas told France's Senate during a...

German police have evacuated a technical school in Borsdorf near the eastern city of Leipzig after an unknown man told students not to go into school because he had explosives in his backpack, a police spokesman said on Wednesday. The spokesman said the search was ongoing and police have yet...