Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who is being sworn-in for a further term on Saturday, has accused the United States of trying to undermine Tehran's nuclear deal with world powers, and urged European countries not to side with Washington. Rouhani, who was decisively re-elected in May...

The US Marine Corps said Saturday that a major search and rescue operation was underway for three missing service members following a "mishap" involving an American military aircraft off the Australian coast. US Marines based in Japan said "search and rescue operations continue for three...

 Security forces surrounded the entrance to Venezuela's chief prosecutor's office Saturday ahead of a session of the newly installed constitutional assembly that is expected to debate removing the onetime loyalist turned arch government critic. Luisa Ortega denounced what she called a...

Venezuela former foreign minister Delcy Rodriguez Friday was elected President of the "Constituent Assembly,” a new legislative body with supreme powers packed with supporters of President Nicolas Maduro. The assembly of 500-plus members, which is tasked with rewriting the crisis-wracked...

The State Department has approved the sale of US warplanes to Nigeria to aid its fight against Boko Haram militants, ending a suspension of weapons sales that followed a deadly Nigerian military strike on a refugee camp. The State Department informed Congress late Wednesday it had approved...

( The New York Times )- A South African tourist who was abducted nearly six years ago from an inn in Timbuktu, Mali, by the North African branch of Al Qaeda has been freed, officials said on Thursday. The tourist, Stephen Malcolm McGown, 42, was the last of the “Timbuktu Three,” who were...

An official news agency controlled by Yemen's Houthi rebels says 12 civilians have been killed in two airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition in a northern province. The SABA news agency reports that warplanes bombed a house in the town of al-Safra in Saada province Friday, killing nine...

Two senior Hamas members are making a rare visit to Iran, in an apparent good will mission - even as top leaders of Hamas court Egypt, which is allied with Tehran's regional rivals. The center of decision making in Hamas shifted earlier this year from the diaspora to the Gaza Strip, a...

A former chief of staff to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to provide testimony on behalf of the state in two graft cases in which the Israeli leader has been questioned as a suspect, court papers showed on Friday. The decision by Ari Harow to turn state's witness as part of a...

Transcripts of President Donald Trump's conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia in January offer new details on how the president parried with the leaders over the politics of the border wall and refugee policy - with random asides on such subjects as drug abuse in New Hampshire....

Iraqi troops have found a mass grave in the western city of Ramadi containing the bodies of 40 men believed to have been executed by Daesh (ISIS), officials said Friday. It is the latest of dozens of such grisly finds made by Iraqi forces since they drove the extremists out of the swathes of...

The new sanctions against Russia that U.S. President Donald Trump signed into law on Wednesday are "more than problematic," German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said. Speaking in the northern German city of Wolfsburg on Friday, Gabriel criticised the United States for departing from its...

An Australian man sent his unsuspecting brother to Sydney airport to catch an Etihad Airways flight carrying a home-made bomb disguised as a meat mincer built at the direction of a senior Islamic State commander, police said on Friday. Detailing one of Australia's worst known militant plots,...

Hundreds of Haitians are streaming across the U.S. border into Canada, fearing deportation by U.S. President Donald Trump, according to aid workers and Quebec officials who have opened Montreal's Olympic Stadium to help process the influx. About 400 to 500 Haitian asylum seekers walked into...

New U.S. sanctions will make it harder for Russia to build two gas export pipelines to Europe but the projects are unlikely to be stopped. U.S. President Donald Trump has reluctantly signed into law further sanctions on Russia but some of the measures are discretionary and most White House...

The U.S. embassy in Turkey denied Turkish media reports that the United States had sent tanks and hundreds of truckloads of weapons into Syria to support the Kurdish YPG militia. In a statement posted on social media, the embassy said the U.S. has not provided tanks to any groups fighting...

 Iran's supreme leader formally endorsed Hassan Rouhani as president in a ceremony broadcast on state television on Thursday, after Rouhani secured a second term in a landslide election win on May 19. Addressing religious, military and political leaders, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali...

Washington is seeking talks on how North Korea can be suspended from Asia's biggest security forum as part of a broader effort to isolate Pyongyang diplomatically and force it to end its missile tests and abandon its nuclear weapons program, U.S. and Philippine officials said. Acting...

Turkey has vowed to root out militants plotting against China as the two countries pledged to collaborate on a security issue that had been a source of friction. Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Thursday in Beijing that Turkey would treat matters of China's security as its own,...

The U.S. military in Afghanistan says that four American troops were wounded in the same suicide bombing near the city of Kandahar the previous day that killed two U.S. service members. The statement released in Kabul on Thursday says their injuries are not life threatening. It followed...