(The Guardian)- Eight people died and 36 were arrested in clashes between the Myanmar army and what the government believes are Rohingya Muslim militants in northern Rakhine State, state media said on Sunday, in the largest escalation of the month-old conflict yet. Skirmishes took place...

South Korean leader Park Geun-hye is set to become her country’s first sitting president to be questioned by prosecutors, according to sources cited by local media Sunday. Park conceded back on Nov. 4 that she would be prepared to cooperate with investigators looking into a power abuse...

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls has said Saturday that the country was planning to extend the state of emergency until the country's presidential election, which will be held between April 23 - May 7 2017. France has been under a state of emergency and high terror alert since a Daesh...

Venezuela's government and opposition on Saturday reached tentative deals in the areas of elections and foreign aid as part of a Vatican-backed dialogue process, though the agreements fell far short of initial opposition demands. Allies of President Nicolas Maduro will consider letting...

Turkey has issued a travel warning for its citizens about going to the United States, citing violent protests following Tuesday's contested presidential election as well as increasing verbal and physical attacks and harassment of an "anti-immigrant" and "racist" nature. In a statement posted...

Pressure on South Korea's scandal-hit president to resign escalated sharply Saturday, with organisers claiming a million-strong turnout at one of the largest -- and loudest -- anti-government protests the country has ever witnessed. Chanting "Step down Park Geun-Hye!" enormous crowds,...

A reporter working for Iran's state television IRIB was killed Saturday in a mortar attack in the Syrian battlefront city of Aleppo, the broadcaster said. Mohsen Khazaei died in the village of Minyan outside the northern city, one of two areas which Syrian government forces had recaptured...

Four Americans were killed Saturday in a huge explosion inside the largest US military base in Afghanistan, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said. The Americans -- two servicemembers and two contractors -- were killed at Bagram Airfield by "an apparent suicide bomber," Carter said in a...

Hundreds of Boko Haram fighters and their families have surrendered in Chad in the past month, security and U.N. sources said, in a sign the military campaign against them is making headway. Boko Haram, which has killed and kidnapped thousands of people, had seized an area approximately the...

Elite Iraqi forces were engaged in "intense" fighting with jihadists in eastern Mosul on Saturday, an officer said, as civilians gathered on the city's outskirts to flee. Iraqi forces launched a massive operation to retake the country's second city from the Islamic State group on October 17,...

A flotilla of Russian warships is now in the eastern Mediterranean off the Syrian coast after being sent to reinforce Russia's military in the area, a naval commander said on state television. The commander of Russia's flagship Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier Sergei Artamonov said via...

About 6,000 pro-Kurdish demonstrators are holding a rally in the western German city of Cologne in protest against the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Police said Saturday that the rally in an industrial area along the Rhine River has been peaceful so far. Erdogan's...

(Marca)- With his 50th international goal and an overall stellar performance, Neymar helped Brazil to see off the challenge of Argentina on Thursday night and Barcelona fans will be hoping the 24-year-old can play similarly well for the Blaugrana as the season goes on. Although his start to...

China is greatly concerned about the European Union's protectionist measures against Chinese steel products, the commerce ministry said on Saturday. "The Chinese side has expressed great concerns and worries about the EU's trade protectionist tendency over steel," the ministry said in a...

Thousands of protesters took their frustrations over Donald Trump's election as the next U.S. president onto the streets on Friday and into Saturday in several cities, including Portland, Oregon, where one protester was shot. The unidentified man was wounded on Portland's Morrison Bridge at...

(The Daily Star)- Turkey's military killed 18 ISIS militants in northern Syria over the last 24 hours, the army said Saturday, intensifying strikes against the militant group. Four buildings and one vehicle used by the ISIS fighters were destroyed in the strikes, an army statement said....

 The Russian Defence Ministry said Saturday it would need the U.N. mission in Syria to formally confirm its ability to deliver aid to eastern Aleppo before Moscow agreed to any new humanitarian pauses in fighting in the shattered Syrian city. Moscow says previous temporary ceasefires on...

(Al Jazeera)- Thirty years ago, Ako Ghareb joined the Kurdish rebellion against Saddam Hussein's regime, in a bid for Kurdish independence. At the age of 23, he fled to the Jafaiti Valley and surrounding mountains in northern Iraq, where he remained entrenched with the Peshmerga for seven years....

(The Telegraph)- At least four people were killed and 14 others injured in an explosion inside the largest US military base in Afghanistan, Nato said, with the Taliban claiming responsibility. The explosion struck at dawn inside the heavily fortified Bagram Airfield north of Kabul, as the...

(Bloomberg)- Russia said that it talked with the teams of Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton during the U.S. presidential election as part of routine outreach during a campaign. Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov said the Russian embassy in the U.S. held talks with the Trump camp that...