Real Madrid landed their fourth title of the year by recording their 22nd straight victory to win the Club World Cup . The European champions defeated the Argentinian side San Lorenzo 2-0 in Marrakech on Saturday night to add the global crown to their Champions League, Uefa...

Croatia may block Serbia's accession process with the European Union if Belgrade would not prosecute those accused for war crimes during the break up of Yugoslavia, Croatian foreign minister told The Anadolu Agency. " Croatia will apply, only and...

  Turkey and Qatar share the same concerns in Syria and Iraq, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Friday. Addressing a joint press conference with visiting Qatari Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani at the presidential palace in Ankara, Erdogan said...

Eight children ranging from babies to teenagers were found dead at a home in the Australian city of Cairns on Friday, police said, reportedly in a gruesome mass stabbing that comes just days after a deadly siege in Sydney. Prime Minister Tony Abbott called the Cairns tragedy...

U.S. President Barack Obama spoke to his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Thursday and expressed concern over mass trials and the continued detention of journalists and peaceful activists. During a telephone call, the White House said, Obama encouraged Sisi to “invest in...

Russian president Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the Russian economy might take up to two years to recover from the doldrums into which it has fallen. He began his annual question and answer session with journalists by speaking about Russia's economic...

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s weeks-long siege of northwestern Mount Sinjar was broken Thursday after a successful operation of Iraqi Peshmerga, a top Kurdish security official said. Mount Sinjar was in the news recently when around 100,000 people, mostly...

The U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday that it would impose new sanctions "on those supporting the Syrian regime’s procurement of specialty fuels and base oil used in its military campaign against the Syrian people." The Treasury department designated 11...

The Tunisian army plans to deploy 36,000 troops to secure a presidential runoff vote slated for Sunday, a Defense Ministry spokesman has said. "Around 28,000 soldiers will be used to secure polling stations, while 8,000 others will be deployed in rapid reaction units,"...

(Reuters) - Hamas and Iran have repaired a close political and military relationship frayed by the Syrian civil war, the Palestinian Islamist group's deputy leader said on Wednesday. Patching up ties with Tehran could ease Hamas's financial and political isolation. Israel is...

(Reuters) - The United States will restore diplomatic relations it severed with Cuba more than 50 years ago, a major policy shift ending decades of hostile ties with the communist-ruled island, President Barack Obama said on Wednesday. Announcing the end of what he called a "rigid"...

(Reuters) - A shocked Pakistan on Wednesday began burying 132 students killed in a grisly attack on their school by Taliban militants that has heaped pressure on the government to do more to tackle the insurgency. People across the country lit candles and staged vigils as...

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(Reuters) - Spanish and Moroccan police have arrested seven people in a ongoing joint swoop on suspected efforts to recruit women to go to Syria and Iraq to support Islamic State insurgents, the Spanish Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. Spain is among a number of European...

At least 150 women who refused to marry militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, were executed in the western Iraqi province of Al-Anbar, Iraq's Ministry of Human Rights said. According to a ministry statement released Tuesday, ISIL militants carried...

H5N8 virus -- a strain of highly contagious  bird flu -- has been identified at a turkey farm in Lower Saxony's Cloppenburg region.  "The same strain of bird flu has been detected as the one identified in Germany's...

(Anadolu News Agency)- Five independent poll-monitoring agencies have called on young Tunisians to take part in next Sunday's presidential run-off vote. The call was one of five recommendations issued by Tunisian civil society "to ensure the success" of the looming vote, according to a...

SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Two car bombs exploded south of the Yemeni capital Tuesday, hitting a school bus traveling near a Shiite rebel gathering, killing 25, including at least 15 primary school students, the rebel group said. The Shiite rebels, known as the Houthis, blamed al-Qaida...

(Reuters) - At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen broke into a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest massacre the country has seen for years. More than eight hours after...

(Reuters) - At least 126 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday when Taliban gunmen stormed a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, taking hundreds of students hostage in the bloodiest insurgent attack in the country in years. Troops surrounded the building...