A citizenship crisis will loom over the Australian government for at least another two months after a court said on Thursday it would not begin hearings into the parliamentary eligibility of seven lawmakers until mid-October. Australia's parliament has been rocked by the revelation that the...

US President Donald Trump's UN envoy Nikki Haley told the world's atomic watchdog Wednesday that Washington has "concerns" about Iran's adherence to the 2015 nuclear deal. Haley "praised the IAEA's technical expertise and its credibility, professionalism and seriousness in conducting its...

Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Wednesday Donald Trump must be shown appropriate respect for holding the office of the U.S. president, even if she may differ with him on policy issues. Merkel, campaigning for a fourth term in office after a Sept. 24 national election, has refused to bend to...

( The Guardian )- Egypt has called off a scheduled meeting between its foreign minister and top US presidential adviser Jared Kushner after the US decided to withhold millions of dollars in aid. However, the office of the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said he would meet the US...

 At least 11 people were beheaded Wednesday in an attack on a checkpoint controlled by Libyan military strongman Khalifa Haftar south of Tripoli, a spokesman for his forces said. "At least nine soldiers were beheaded... in addition to two civilians killed in the same way" at the...

The Philippines' largest Muslim rebel group said Wednesday it had lost 10 fighters in battles to stop a "growing force" of radical militants who support Daesh (ISIS). The Moro Islamic Liberation Front is seeking to prevent the militants from gaining a foothold in an area of Mindanao island...

 Several people including civilians were killed in an air raid Wednesday on the Yemeni capital, witnesses and local media said. A television channel run by the country's Huthi rebels, who control Sanaa, reported more than 30 civilians killed in a raid by the Saudi-led military coalition...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un is "starting to respect" the United States, President Donald Trump declared, even as Pyongyang revealed plans for its missile development Wednesday and Kim ordered a production boost. Trump's remarks, at a rally in Phoenix, came hours after Secretary of State...

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis arrived in Ankara on Wednesday for talks with Turkish leaders expected to focus on Washington's arming of a Syrian Kurdish militia, which Turkey views as a terror group, in the fight against Daesh (ISIS). Mattis flew in for the one-day visit after stopping in Iraq...

Turkey's prime minister said Wednesday he wants to double trade volume with Vietnam to $4 billion in the next three years as his country seeks to boost cooperation with the Southeast Asian country. Binali Yildirim was making his first visit to Vietnam as prime minister, accompanied by a...

A Taliban suicide bomber killed five civilians and wounded 25 others in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, an official said. The attack by the insurgents comes a day after U.S. President Donald Trump cleared the way for thousands more American troops to be sent to the war-torn country....

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will tell Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that he is concerned Iran and its Shiite allies are expanding their presence in Syria as Moscow works to tamp down the Syrian civil war, Israeli officials said. Russia has been the main broker...

Pakistan on Wednesday said blistering criticism by US President Donald Trump was "disappointing" and denied accusations that it supported terrorist groups. "No country in the world has suffered more than Pakistan from the scourge of terrorism, often perpetrated from outside our borders. It...

Iran's Revolutionary Guards Tuesday denied claims by Turkey that the two countries were planning joint military operations against Kurdish rebels in Iraq. "We have not planned any operations outside Iran's borders," said a statement from the Guards' regional ground forces headquarters...

NATO allies on Tuesday welcomed President Donald Trump's decision to commit more forces to Afghanistan, as part of a new U.S. strategy he said would require more troops and funding from America's partners. Having run for the White House last year on a pledge to withdraw swiftly from...

Iran's new communications minister said Tuesday that negotiations were underway with Twitter to unblock the service, which has been banned for years despite being used even by the country's supreme leader. The micro-blogging platform was barred at the time of mass anti-regime protests in...

China defended its ally Pakistan on Tuesday after U.S. President Donald Trump said the United States could no longer be silent about Pakistan's "safe havens" for militants and warned it had much to lose by continuing to "harbor terrorists". Trump on Monday committed the United States to an...

Expelled from their main stronghold in northern Iraq, Daesh (ISIS) militants are now trapped in a military vise that will squeeze them on both sides of the Syria-Iraq border, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said. Mattis arrived in the Iraqi capital on an unannounced visit Tuesday just...

Millions of Americans looked skyward in awe through protective glasses, telescopes and cameras on Monday as the first coast-to-coast total solar eclipse in a century marched from the U.S. Pacific Northwest to the Atlantic seaboard. After weeks of anticipation, onlookers from Oregon to South...

A rocket landed in the heavily fortified diplomatic area of the Afghan capital Kabul late Monday, police said. The attack came hours before US President Donald Trump is due to announce his long-awaited strategy for Afghanistan. A siren used by the US embassy to warn of incoming rockets...