Hardline conservatives in Iran are gearing up for the commemoration of the 1979 seizure of the US embassy in Tehran on Tuesday. Preparations for the anniversary are happening amid signs of a possible backlash against the recent easing of tensions in US–Iranian...

French Foreign Ministry confirms that RFI journalists were abducted and killed by gunmen outside town of Kidal. Two French journalists have been killed in the northern Mali town of Kidal after being abducted by gunmen. Ghislaine Dupont and Claude Verlon, both journalists with...

Pakistani Taliban leader Hakimullah Mehsud was killed on Friday in a U.S. drone strike, security and intelligence sources said, in the latest blow to the Islamist militant group. The al-Qaeda-linked insurgent group confirmed the death of Mehsud, believed to be in his mid-30s....

Allegations that the U.S. National Security Agency spied on millions of French citizens are set to overshadow vital talks on the future of Syria. Top-ranking politicians from both sides of the Atlantic will come face to face on Tuesday just one day after a report in  Le Monde...