The U.S. Air Force will this weekend deploy a small number of F-35A fighter jets to Europe for several weeks of training with other U.S. and NATO military aircraft, the Pentagon said on Friday. In a statement, the Pentagon said that the deployment would allow the U.S. Air Force to "further...

Qari Mehrajuddin first saw "lightning like a thunder storm" followed by the roar of an explosion, an all-to-familiar sound for residents in Afghanistan's war-torn Nangarhar province. "I thought there was a bombing just outside my home," he said. In reality, the blast was around three...

Canada announced new sanctions against Syria Friday in response to its alleged April 4 chemical weapons attack, freezing assets and banning transactions with senior leaders from President Bashar Assad government. The latest sanctions were Canada's first against Syria and Assad since 2014...

 ISIS denied Friday it had suffered casualties from the U.S. military's largest non-nuclear bomb which hit its mountain hideouts in Afghanistan, in a statement on its propaganda agency Amaq. "Security source to Amaq agency denies any dead or wounded from yesterday's American strike in...

North Korea's army Friday vowed a "merciless" response to any U.S. provocation, as tensions soar over Pyongyang's nuclear program and speculation mounts that it is preparing a fresh weapons test. Pyongyang's rogue atomic ambitions have come into sharp focus in recent weeks, with United...

Russia, Syria and Iran strongly warned the United States Friday against launching new strikes Syria and called for an international probe into last week's chemical attack there. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, who hosted his Iranian and Syrian counterparts at a trilateral meeting in...

( The Guardian )- Theresa May has defended Boris Johnson’s handling of the Syria crisis, saying he had done an “excellent job” despite criticism of his failure to win backing for further sanctions on Russia. The prime minister said Johnson had taken a very clear message to the G7 and managed...

Smoking-related diseases will claim 200 million lives in China this century and plunge tens of millions into poverty, a report said Friday. China is the world's largest consumer and producer of tobacco, and the industry provides the government with colossal sums. In 2015, it recorded 1.1...

 Iran said Friday that new U.S. sanctions imposed against the brother of the high-profile commander of the Revolutionary Guards' foreign operations arm, Qassem Soleimani, were "illegal". The U.S. Treasury added Sohrab Soleimani, along with the Tehran Prisons Organisation which he...

Much like the vast mosque he has commissioned atop one of Istanbul's highest hills, President Tayyip Erdogan's supporters hope a referendum Sunday will be a crowning achievement in his drive to reshape Turkey. The vote, in which millions of Turks will decide whether to replace their...

North Korea's vice foreign minister Friday blamed President Donald Trump for escalating tensions on the Korean Peninsula through his tweets and expansion of military exercises, saying the U.S. was becoming "more vicious and more aggressive" under his leadership than it had been under President...

The Pentagon says U.S. forces in Afghanistan dropped the military's largest non-nuclear bomb on an ISIS target in Afghanistan. Pentagon spokesman Adam Stump said it was the first-ever combat use of the bomb, known as the GBU-43, which he said contains 11 tons of explosives. The Air Force...

Russia and Turkey will hold high-level economic talks next week, a Moscow official said on Thursday, hoping to restore normal trade ties amid political tensions over the war in Syria. Russian Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich, the government official responsible for agriculture, will...

Targeted killings of specific ethnic groups in South Sudan's civil war amount to "genocide", according to Britain's International Development Minister Priti Patel. "It's tribal, it's absolutely tribal, so on that basis it's genocide," Patel told reporters in Uganda Wednesday, according to a...

( The Guardian )- Donald Trump has said that US relations with Russia may be at “an all-time low” and declared a new-found faith in Nato, suggesting the alliance was “no longer obsolete”. The US president’s remarks at the White House followed a two-hour meeting in Moscow between his...

North Korea may have the capacity to launch a warhead loaded with sarin nerve gas, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Thursday, as tensions rise over the country's missile and nuclear programs. Sarin has been used in deadly domestic attacks in Japan, notably in 1995 when the Aum Supreme...

Chancellor Angela Merkel says it's in Germany's interest to have good relations with the United States, despite disagreeing with President Donald Trump on important issues. Merkel told Germany's Funke media group in an interview published Thursday that conversations with Trump during her...

South Korea said Thursday it believed it would be consulted by the United States before any possible preemptive U.S. strike against Pyongyang and China urged the North to halt its nuclear program in exchange for greater protection from Beijing. With a U.S. aircraft carrier group steaming to...

The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will unveil legislation Thursday to fully legalize recreational marijuana use, making Canada only the second country to do so, after Uruguay. Its legalization and regulation would follow in 2018, in time for Canada's national day on July 1....

The United States told Russia at the United Nations on Wednesday that it is isolating itself by continuing to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Britain said its scientists found sarin was used in a deadly toxic gas attack on Syrian civilians last week. Russia is set to block a...