MacDill Air Force Base, United States: President Donald Trump on Monday pledged that America and its allies would defeat the "forces of death" and keep radical militants from gaining a foothold on U.S. soil, in his first visit to U.S. Central Command. "Today we deliver a message in one very...

The United Nations Monday called on donor countries to supply $3.5 billion in the next two years to help improve education and living standards for the almost three million Syrian refugees hosted by Turkey. Ankara has repeatedly complained of being left alone to deal with the influx of...

Experts from Russia, Turkey, Iran and the United Nations held a technical meeting in Kazakhstan's capital, Astana, to discuss in detail the implementation of the Syrian ceasefire agreement, Kazakhstan's Foreign Ministry said on Monday. "Representatives of Jordan are expected to take part for...

Iran said Monday a recent missile trial launch was not intended to send a message to new U.S. President Donald Trump and to test him, since after a series of policy statements Iranian officials already "know him quite well." Iran test-fired a new ballistic missile last week, prompting...

 President Donald Trump's temporary immigration ban faced on Monday the first of several crucial legal hurdles that could determine whether he can push through the most controversial and far reaching policy of his first two weeks in office. On Monday, the government has a deadline to...

 Iran will receive the final part of a 149-ton shipment of uranium from Russia as part of its nuclear deal with world powers, it was announced on Monday. "The first shipment arrived on January 26 by plane and the last will arrive tomorrow, Tuesday," said Ali Akbar Salehi, head of Iran's...

President Donald Trump travels to US Central Command on Monday, meeting officers who will form the tip of the spear in implementing his new strategy to defeat ISIS. After a three-day break in southern Florida, Trump will stop off at Centcom headquarters in Tampa on his way back to...

(The Independent)- A federal appeals court has denied Donald Trump's request to immediately reinstate his travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries. The Department of Homeland Security suspended all enforcement of Mr Trump's immigration ban following a nationwide locking of the executive...

(The Guardian)- The number of children killed and maimed in the Afghan war increased dramatically last year, according to the UN, which has documented the highest civilian casualty toll in the country since 2001. In a report released on Monday, the UN documented 11,418 casualties, a 3%...

(Fox News)- President Trump, in an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly, announced he’ll name Vice President Pence to lead a commission investigating voter registration fraud – while also laying out timelines for top domestic priorities like tax cuts and health care, and leaving the...

Romanian Prime Minister Sorin Grindeanu announced Sunday he will not resign amid nationwide protests against a recent government decision to decriminalize certain graft offenses, the country’s national news agency, AGER, reported. More than 200,000 people flocked to the government building...

 German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said on Sunday he was reassured after meetings last week with top U.S. officials that the United States was committed to a united Europe and to the NATO alliance. U.S. President Donald Trump described NATO as "obsolete" prior to taking office and...

 A U.S. appeals court late on Saturday denied a request from the U.S. Department of Justice to immediately restore a immigration order from President Donald Trump barring citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries and temporarily banning refugees. The court ruling dealt a further setback...

Dozens of people in Afghanistan and Pakistan were killed after heavy snow and avalanches hit over the weekend. In eastern Afghanistan, at least 50 people died and dozens more were missing on Sunday after an avalanche buried a village in Nuristan, provincial governor Hafiz Abdul Qayum said....

The U.S. Justice Department filed an appeal late Saturday to restore President Donald Trump's immigration order barring citizens from seven mainly Muslim countries and temporarily banning refugees, even as travelers raced to enter the country while the ban was lifted. The government moved to...

(Washington Post)- A U.S. commando raid in Yemen that set off a fierce firefight revealed the growing strength of an al-Qaeda affiliate that has targeted both the United States and Europe in recent years. Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, or AQAP, as the branch is known, had collected...

A top rebel commander in eastern Ukraine was killed when his automobile exploded, along with another person, rebels said Saturday, blaming Ukraine's special services for the blast. Ukraine's military, meanwhile said three soldiers were killed in shelling over the past day. Fighting...

Mourners held a ceremony at Tunisia's main airport on Saturday to receive the body of a Tunisian-born victim of the January 29 attack on a Quebec mosque. Boubaker Thabti was among six men killed when a far right-wing student stormed into a mosque in Quebec City during evening prayers and...

Donald Trump has reacted angrily to the legal block of his ban on refugees and immigrants from seven majority-Muslim countries entering the US. The President said the temporary suspension of his executive order, enacted by a federal judge in Seattle, could lead to "big trouble". He branded...

US President Donald Trump was to hold his first talks with Ukraine's leader on Saturday as a surge in fighting killed dozens refocusing world attention on the conflict in Europe's backyard. The phone conversation comes as the death toll hit 35 following a week of clashes between Ukrainian...