Libyan pro-government forces are advancing into the last area controlled by Islamic State in the coastal city of Sirte, surrounding the militants after a five-month campaign backed by U.S. air strikes, military officials say. At least eight pro-government fighters were killed over the...

Russia intends to establish a permanent naval base on the site of an existing facility it leases at the Syrian port of Tartus, Russian Deputy Defence Minister Nikolai Pankov said on Monday, Russian news agencies reported. Pankov's statement is the latest sign that Moscow wants to expand its...

Turkish military said Monday that 537 terrorists have been “neutralized” in the country during anti-terror operations against the PKK since August 29. In a statement, the Turkish General Staff said 417 terrorists were captured dead, 61 wounded, and 18 captured live, while 41 surrendered to...

Paris demanded on Monday that Britain honor promises to take in migrant children from the notorious Jungle camp in the French port city of Calais, adding to pressure following accusations by the Red Cross that London is dragging its heels. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said he would...

A U.S. Navy guided missile destroyer was targeted on Sunday in a failed missile attack from territory in Yemen controlled by Iran-aligned Houthi rebels, a U.S. military spokesman told Reuters, saying neither of the two missiles hit the ship. The attempted strike on the USS Mason, which was...

Attitudes to women dominated Sunday night’s presidential debate with Democrat nominee Hillary Clinton condemning Republican rival Donald Trump over vulgar comments he made in footage released earlier in the week. Trump in turn focused on Clinton’s husband’s affairs and accused her of...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s office on Monday defended the arrests of senior judges as part of Nigeria’s campaign against corruption. At least four and as many as seven judges from the country’s highest courts were arrested over the weekend by the Department for State Security (DSS), leading...

Saudi Arabia's Energy Minister Khalid al-Falih said on Monday that OPEC needs to ensure it does not crimp oil supply too tightly and give the market a harmful shock, and said he was optimistic a production deal could be reached by November. Speaking at the World Energy Congress in Istanbul,...

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Monday that President Francois Hollande will take into account the situation in Syria's Aleppo when deciding whether to see his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin when he visits Paris on Oct. 19 Ayrault also told France Inter radio that he...

A 22-year-old Syrian suspected of planning a bomb attack in Germany has been arrested, police said Monday. Jaber al-Bakr was captured in the eastern city of Leipzig on Sunday night, Saxony state police said on Twitter. Police launched a massive manhunt Saturday after finding several...

Hurricane Matthew left 15 dead in the U.S. and hundreds more in the Caribbean before it moved off the east coast Sunday as a post-tropical cyclone. Matthew formed near the Windward Islands on Sept. 28 moving north to become a hurricane once it arrived in the eastern Caribbean, reaching...

Thousands of Yemenis, many of them armed, gathered at the United Nations headquarters in Yemen's capital Sanaa on Sunday calling for an international investigation into an air strike on a wake this weekend that was widely blamed on Saudi-led forces. The attack - that killed at least 140...

Tesla Motors Inc (TSLA.O) Chief Executive Elon Musk on Sunday said the company would not need to raise equity or corporate debt in the fourth quarter for its planned acquisition of SolarCity Corp (SCTY.O), contradicting a filing the company made with regulators last week. Asked on Twitter...

Malaysian police have announced the arrest of 16 people, including one North African national, on suspicion of links to Daesh. Inspector General of Police Khalid Abu Bakar said in a statement Sunday that the 16 individuals -- aged between 20 and 38 years old -- were detained in a six secret...

Morocco’s ruling Justice and Development Party (PJD) has won the largest share of seats in the parliamentary elections on Saturday, securing 125 seats in the House of Representatives, according to the National Statistics Committee. In a statement released on Sunday, the committee said that...

An air strike on a funeral wake, widely blamed on Saudi-led warplanes, poses more trouble for a Western-backed Arab campaign against Yemen's Houthis that has long been criticized for civilian losses. The White House announced an immediate review of Washington's support for the 18-month-old...

Matthew was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone on Sunday as it struck North Carolina and Virginia with a diminished yet still potent punch, causing flooding and widespread power outages along the U.S. Atlantic coast after killing hundreds in Haiti. The most powerful Atlantic storm since...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Sunday he had detected increasing U.S. hostility towards Moscow and complained about what he said was a series of aggressive U.S. steps that threatened Russia's national security. In an interview with Russian state TV likely to worsen already...

Turkish troops in northern Iraq came under attack from Daesh on Sunday, a security official in the area said. There were no injuries in the attack at Gedu base, near Daesh-held Mosul, the Turkish official said on condition of anonymity due to restrictions on talking to the media. Troops...

Two Israelis died after they were shot at a tram station in occupied East Jerusalem on Sunday, officials said. At least six others were wounded, the Magen David Adom emergency service said. The Palestinian attacker was killed by police after opening fire on a crowd, local media, which...