(Independent)- Three Russian submarines armed with cruise missiles have reportedly joined a naval battleforce heading towards Syria. The Royal Navy and Nato have been tracking the two Akula-class submarines and a diesel-powered Kilo-class sub as they travelled to join the fleet of Russian...

(Sky News)- Family members of US consulate staff in Istanbul have been ordered to leave because of security concerns. The information follows a warning last week of increased threats from extremist groups and advice that US citizens should carefully consider any travel within Turkey. The...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Sunday that neither he or his department had been contacted by the FBI over its renewed investigation into his predecessor Hillary Clinton's emails. "No, I haven't been notified of anything, no, I haven't been requested of anything, no, I'm not aware...

Three astronauts landed safely in Kazakhstan Sunday following a 115-day mission aboard the the International Space Station, including U.S. astronaut Kate Rubins, the first person to sequence DNA in space. Russian mission control confirmed the touchdown of NASA's Rubins, Roscosmos' Anatoly...

(Independent)- More people died from violent crime in Brazil than in the Syrian conflict in 2015, a Brazilian monitor has claimed. There were 58,383 violent deaths in Brazil that year, according a report by the Brazilian Forum for Public Security, while the Syrian Observatory for Human...

A Russian military spokesman is blaming the United States for a near-collision of the countries' warplanes in Syrian airspace. Major-General Igor Konashenkov said in a statement Saturday that the Oct. 17 incident involved a Sukhoi-35, Russia's most advanced fighter jet, and an American E-3...

Twenty-five people were killed, six of them gendarmes, in two days of violence around the town of Bambari in the troubled Central African Republic, the U.N. force MINUSCA said Saturday. Six police and four civilians were killed in an ambush by armed men Friday morning, while Thursday, 15...

Russia failed to win re-election to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday, beaten out by Hungary and Croatia, following lobbying by rights groups against Moscow's candidacy because of its military support for the Syrian government. In a secret ballot by the 193-member U.N....

Two suicide bombers killed at least five people Saturday in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, the heart of a seven-year-old insurgency by Islamist Boko Haram militants, a military source and residents said. The first attack occurred at 0600 GMT in front of a camp for displaced...

(Middle East Eye)- A Russian fighter flew dangerously close to a US warplane over eastern Syria, US defence officials said on Friday, highlighting the risks of a serious mishap in the increasingly crowded airspace. The near miss occurred late on 17 October, when a Russian jet that was...

A Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman on Friday said an expert examination of pictures showing a strike on a Syrian school that UNICEF said killed 22 children, had shown they were fake. "Today after expert analysis of photographs from the Syrian village of Hass, it turned out that there was...

When Army Capt. Hugh Miller heard a group of policemen trading stories about a militant called Farouq al-Qahtani at their base in Afghanistan’s Konar province one day four years ago, he didn’t know what all the fuss was about. “I don’t think I even sent a report up about it,” Miller, who was...

The FBI is reviewing new emails linked to Hillary Clinton's tenure as Secretary of State, the bureau’s director James Comey said in a letter Friday. "In connection with an unrelated case, the FBI has learned of the existence of emails that appear pertinent to the investigation," Comey wrote...

Venezuela's streets were quieter than usual on Friday, but a strike called by the opposition drew patchy participation after the socialist government threatened to seize businesses that closed. "The strike is a good pressure tactic ... but if I don't work, I don't eat," said insurance agent...

 Trump Place Apartments are luxury living at one of New York's finest addresses, with marble floors, grand entrance halls, attentive doormen and magnificent views across the Hudson River. But behind closed doors, residents are squabbling over whether to remove the Republican nominee's...

When Kashmir erupted in anti-India protests almost four months ago, 14-year-old Shazia Batool was sequestered at home — forbidden from venturing out as stone-throwing protesters faced off in street clashes with government forces and demanded an end to Indian rule in the disputed Himalayan...

Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos suspended peace talks with the ELN rebels Thursday, hours before they were due to open, insisting the guerrillas first release an ex-lawmaker they are holding hostage. "The formal installation of the negotiating table with (the ELN) is postponed until...

(CNN)- A startling new photo shows an Indiana woman passed out behind the wheel of a car after an apparent heroin overdose with a syringe clutched in her fist. This is exactly how police found 25-year-old Erika Hurt in a parking lot Saturday in Hope, Indiana. What's more disturbing is the...

Korean carmakers Hyundai Motor Co and affiliate Kia Motors Corp will pay $41.2 million to resolve a long running investigation by 33 U.S. states over the automakers' 2012 mileage restatements, state attorney generals said Thursday. In 2014, the automakers were hit with $350 million in...

The White House said on Thursday that either the Syrian government or Russia was responsible for a deadly airstrike in Syria that hit a school and led to the deaths of 26 civilians. "We don't know yet that it was the Assad regime or the Russians that carried out the airstrike, but we know it...