A military chief of a self-proclaimed Russian-backed republic in eastern Ukraine was killed in an "act of terror" Wednesday, the latest victim of a string of similar attacks, local authorities said. The dead man was Mikhail Tolstykh, 36, head of the notorious "Somali" battalion and a leading...

Six Red Cross workers have been killed and two others are missing in northern Afghanistan, the international charity said Wednesday, underscoring the growing dangers faced by aid workers in the war-battered country. They were killed in the volatile province of Jowzjan, the charity added,...

Impeached President Park Geun-hye’s office on Wednesday threatened to withhold cooperation from prosecutors investigating her after details of their inquiry were leaked, local media reported. News reports claimed earlier that investigators would question Park over abuse of power allegations...

Iran is displaying hundreds of ancient and Persian artifacts, some dating back as far as 3,500 years and all of them recently brought back home from museums and collections in Western countries. Mohammad Hassan Talebian, deputy head of the Cultural Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism...

(The Independent)- Donald Trump's anti-Muslim rhetoric was used against him by state lawyers during an appeals court hearing into the President's controversial hardline immigration ban. The attorneys-general of Washington and Minnesota have claimed Mr Trump acted in "bad faith in an effort...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and U.S. President Donald Trump agreed in a phone call overnight to act together regarding the Islamic State controlled Syrian towns of al-Bab and Raqqa, Turkish presidential sources said on Wednesday. The two leaders discussed issues including a safe zone in...

Mexicans approve of President Enrique Pena Nieto's decision to withdraw from a planned summit with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump, even as the Mexican leader's popularity has sunk to a four-year low, a poll showed on Tuesday. The survey, by polling firm Buendia & Laredo, showed that 64...

The U.S. Army will grant the final permit for the controversial Dakota Access oil pipeline after an order from President Donald Trump to expedite the project despite opposition from Native American tribes and climate activists. In a court filing on Tuesday, the Army said that it would allow...

The head of the U.S. Air Force urged caution Tuesday in increasing the pace of the air war against ISIS in Iraq and Syria. President Donald Trump made accelerating the fight against ISIS a central plank of his campaign and has pledged to intensify bombing of the militant group. General...

The Russian military is denying that its warplanes have attacked the city of Idlib in northwestern Syria. Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov said Tuesday that Russian warplanes haven't conducted a single strike on Idlib this year. Syrian opposition activists...

(Foreign Policy)- During his first trip to the Pentagon, President Donald Trump gave his generals a month to develop a new plan to defeat the Islamic State. One of the most pressing questions is when and how to take Raqqa, the de facto Islamic State capital in Syria. Left unresolved in the...

An explosion occurred near the Supreme Court in the centre of Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on Tuesday, according to police and witnesses. An apparent suicide bomber targeted Supreme Court employees leaving their offices at the end of the working day, but the number of casualties was not...

The Kremlin Tuesday shrugged off a Fox News host's refusal to apologize for comments he made about Russian President Vladimir Putin, but said his remarks reflected badly on the U.S. channel. In an interview with U.S. President Donald Trump which aired at the weekend, Fox News host Bill...

Unlike what U.S. president Donald Trump thinks, the nuclear deal between Iran and world powers was a win-win accord, President Hassan Rouhani said Tuesday, noting that the deal can be used as a stepping stone to defuse tension in the region. "The new U.S. president reads text of the nuclear...

Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was left teetering on the brink of a minority government Tuesday when a prominent lawmaker quit to form a new conservative party, more bad news as Turnbull's popularity ratings plumb new lows. The defection of Senator Cory Bernardi to form the...

South Korea's special prosecutor has indicted a former culture minister and a top aide to President Park Geun-hye on charges of abuse of power and perjury for their role in drawing up a blacklist of artists critical of the leader, a spokesman said. Cho Yoon-sun, the former culture minister,...

The U.S. Justice Department will face off with opponents in a federal appeals court Tuesday over the fate of President Donald Trump's temporary travel ban on people from seven Muslim-majority countries, his most controversial act since taking office last month. Last Friday, U.S. District...

China is proposing a further tightening of controls over the internet with the possible establishment of a new commission to vet internet services and hardware, Beijing's internet regulator has said. China adopted a controversial cyber security law in November to counter what Beijing says...

Francois Fillon Monday defiantly refused to drop out of the race to be France’s next president despite an investigation into whether well-paid political jobs he gave his wife, son and daughter were genuine, a scandal that has knocked him from his perch as favorite in the April-May voting....

(The Independent)- Donald Trump will not be welcome to address Parliament on his state visit to the UK because of his racist and sexist attitudes, the Speaker of the House of Commons has said in a major snub to the American president. In a dramatic intervention, John Bercow, the Speaker,...