The death toll from a strong earthquake that hit northern Indonesia's Aceh province on Wednesday has doubled to at least 50, Indonesia's disaster agency said, as rescuers searched dozens of collapsed buildings for trapped survivors. Search and rescue teams used earth movers to clear rubble...

A Russian military adviser working in Aleppo has been killed by artillery shelling carried out by Syrian opposition rebels, Russian news agencies quoted the Russian Defense Ministry as saying Wednesday. The adviser would be posthumously given a top military award, the agencies said....

Tennis world number two Novak Djokovic has split with coach Boris Becker three years after adding the German grand slam winner to his team. Serbian Djokovic confirmed their parting of ways on his website on Tuesday. "After three very successful years, Boris Becker and I have jointly...

(Al Jazeera)- Forces aligned to Libya's UN-backed national unity government said they were hunting down the last remaining ISIL fighters in Sirte after the group's ouster from its former bastion. Soldiers were said to be "chasing the last jihadists hiding in fewer than 10 houses" on Tuesday...

More than 2,000 lawyers protested in Tunisia's capital on Tuesday against a draft budget for 2017 stipulating a new tax for their profession, AFP reporters said. "With our souls and our blood, we will defend the lawyer's profession!" chanted protesters in black court robes after a silent...

 A court in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday sentenced 15 people to death and several others to prison terms in a case involving an alleged Iranian spy cell, a sign of the continuing tension between the two Mideast powers. A Riyadh criminal court handed down its ruling to the 32 people who were...

 U.S. and Russian officials will not hold talks on Syria in Geneva this week, despite an announcement by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that they would, sources familiar with the plans said on Tuesday. Lavrov said on Monday that Moscow would start talks with Washington on a...

The House passed a defense bill last week that included language giving the incoming Trump administration the authority to send shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to rebel groups fighting in Syria. While the bill provides certain restrictions for transferring the controversial weapons,...

Belgian police detained eight people on Tuesday suspected of recruiting extremists to fight in Syria and raising funds for ISIS, federal prosecutors said. The prosecutor's office said the eight were detained following raids on nine homes in the Dutch-speaking towns of Antwerp, Bruges and...

 A trending story that claims Hillary Clinton won a total of 57 counties in the presidential election is untrue. The Associated Press finds that Clinton won 487 counties nationwide, compared with 2,626 for President-elect Donald Trump. The story appeared on several viral content...

Egyptian authorities announced Tuesday the arrest of 25 members of an international network allegedly trafficking in human organs, including university professors and doctors. "Today at dawn, the largest international network for trading human organs has been captured," the country's...

Iraqi army units advanced from southeast Mosul towards a bridge across the Tigris in the city center on Tuesday, in an attack that could give fresh impetus to the hard fought, seven-week battle for Islamic State's northern Iraq stronghold. Campaign commander Lieutenant General Abdul Ameer...

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Tuesday that it was a "disgrace" that the international community had been unable to alleviate the suffering in Syria's besieged city of Aleppo. "Aleppo is a disgrace," she said in a speech to her conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party....

Russia's foreign minister Tuesday accused the U.S. of backtracking on planned talks in Geneva over a rebel pullout from Syria's Aleppo to "buy time" for those battling leader Bashar Assad. "It looks like an attempt to buy time for the rebels to have a breather, take a pause and replenish...

A police officer and a youth were hospitalized Tuesday after Hamas forces clashed with hard-line Islamists in the Gaza Strip, a medical source and witnesses said. Both men suffered bullet wounds during an attempt by Gaza security forces to arrest two men from a Salafist group, followers of...

South Korean President Park Geun-hye, engulfed in an influence peddling scandal, said if she was impeached she would wait for a court to uphold the decision, an official of her party said on Tuesday, signaling a political crisis could drag on for months. Parliament is expected to hold a vote...

Iran will not let U.S. President-elect Donald Trump rip up the nuclear deal it signed with world powers, President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday. "[Trump] wants to do many things, but none of his actions would affect us ... Do you think the United States can rip up the JCPOA (the Joint...

British Prime Minister Theresa May is to join Gulf Arab leaders gathered for a summit in Bahrain Tuesday for talks on trade after Britain's exit from the European Union. May is the first British premier and the first woman to attend the annual summit of the six oil-rich Gulf Cooperation...

Turkey's military says the country's military chief has held talks with his U.S. counterpart during a previously announced visit to an air base in southern Turkey. A brief military statement Tuesday said the meeting took place Monday at Incirlik Air Base where U.S. Gen. Joseph Dunford was...

Russia and China on Monday vetoed a UN Security Council resolution calling for a seven-day ceasefire in the embattled Syrian city of Aleppo. Venezuela also voted against the text, while Angola abstained. The 11 other member nations on the council cast their votes for the text. The vote...