Beirut, Oct 9 (IANS/EFE) A Lebanese soldier was killed and another wounded Thursday when they were shot by gunmen on a motorcycle in Akkar province bordering Syria, media reported. The attack took place at the entrance of the town of Rihaniye where the army increased its patrols...

(CNN)- Turkey's foreign minister insisted Thursday that it's not "realistic" for the world to expect it to go it alone in launching a ground operation against ISIS, even as a monitoring group said the extremists had seized a chunk of a key battleground town near its border. Speaking...

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The Swiss government has banned the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL, group and all related organizations, said the Defense Ministry on Wednesday. The ban, which prohibits ISIL’s activities in the country, including propaganda and financial support of...

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Brazil’s rate of annualized inflation reached 6.75 percent in September, breaching the upper ceiling of the inflation target, the official of national statistics said Wednesday. The IBGE said the Consumer Price Index accelerated from 0.25 percent to...

The number of deaths caused by the Ebola virus has risen to 3,880.   In a statement released Wednesday, the organization said: "The total number of confirmed, probable, and suspected cases in the West African epidemic of Ebola virus disease (EVD) reported up to the end...

Two dead bodies have been found on Wednesday in Turkey's southeastern city of Mardin, Turkish security officials said, bringing the death toll to 21, as pro-Kurdish demonstrations have continued all day across Turkey. The nationwide protests broke out...

    (Reuters) - Fighting intensified between India and Pakistan in the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir on Wednesday, wounding a dozen along a more than 200-km (124-mile) stretch of border.Pakistan’s military fired machine guns and mortars at about 60...

Three people have been killed and at least 36 injured in demonstrations throughout Turkey in support of the presence of the terrorist group Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, in the Syrian town of Kobani across the Turkish border, Turkish police have said. Hakan...

The Shiite Houthi group on Tuesday rejected the appointment of Ahmed bin Mubarak as Yemen's new prime minister. "Bin Mubarak's appointment is a violation of the peace and partnership deal," Houthi leader Ali al-Bekheti told the pro-Houthi Yemen Agency. He, however, declined...

BEIRUT: The explosion claimed by Hezbollah which wounded two Israeli soldiers in south Lebanon Tuesday was meant to demonstrate the resistance’s ability to respond to Israeli violations, such as the killing of the party's explosives expert Ali Hasan Haidar last month,...

BEIRUT: Two Lebanese nationals aligned with ISIS were killed separately in Iraq and Syria Tuesday. The Tripoli resident, Khaled Ahmed Ahdab, better known by his nom de guerre “Abu Hamza” was killed fighting alongside ISIS in Iraq, security sources said. Ahdab was...

(Reuters) - The Pakistani Taliban on Monday denied reports at the weekend that it had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State movement fighting in Syria and Iraq , saying that its statement to the media had been misinterpreted. The group's spokesman Shahid Shahidullah said...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — U.S. Vice President Joe Biden apologized Saturday to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who was angry over comments in which Biden said Erdogan had admitted that Turkey had made mistakes by allowing foreign fighters to cross into Syria. Erdogan denied...

Tears flowed and prayers filled the air as the annual Muslim hajj by about 1.4 million believers from around the world reached its zenith on a vast plain in western Saudi Arabia Friday. "I am now a newborn baby and I don't have any sin," Nigerian pilgrim Taofik Odunewu told AFP,...

(Reuters) - Gulf Arab states have demanded the restoration of government authority in Yemen , issuing a thinly veiled criticism of rebels with ties to Iran who have taken control of the capital, Sanaa. Fighters from the Shi'ite Muslim Houthi movement seized Sanaa on Sept. 21...

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Hezbollah Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah has met with Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, the Lebanese movement said Tuesday. In a statement, Hezbollah said the two sides had discussed political and security developments in the Middle East...

Militants with the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) group publicly killed a rights lawyer in the Iraqi city of Mosul after their self-styled Islamic court ruled that she had abandoned Islam, the U.N. mission in Iraq said Thursday. Samira Salih al-Nuaimi was seized from her home...