KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysia Airlines rerouted a flight over Syria on Sunday after its usual path over Ukraine was closed, reflecting the challenges airlines face in finding conflict-free routes between Asia and Europe. After Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down...

Three Sudanese employees of international aid agencies were released on Saturday in the troubled Darfur region after 32 days in captivity, peacekeepers said. "They appear to be unharmed and in good condition," the African Union-UN Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) said in a statement....

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Sponsors of a U.N. resolution that would authorize cross-border delivery of humanitarian aid to Syrians in desperate need of food and medicine finalized the text ahead of a Security Council vote expected on Monday. The final draft, obtained Friday by The...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Spying on allies is a waste of energy, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Thursday when asked about two suspected U.S. spy cases that have come to light in the last few days and caused anger in Germany. "From my point of view, spying on allies... is a...

(Reuters) - Germany has tightened security at its airports after U.S. authorities said they were concerned that al Qaeda operatives in Syria and Yemen were developing bombs that could be smuggled onto planes. Germany's interior ministry said in a statement on Tuesday that...

(Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder urged countries in Europe and elsewhere on Tuesday to do more to keep their own citizens from traveling to Syria to fight, saying the world cannot allow Syria to become a training ground for violent extremists. In a speech in...

DENVER (AP) — Newly unsealed court documents show the FBI thwarted a Denver woman's attempt to help a terrorist organization by arresting her before she boarded a flight in April. A federal judge on Wednesday ordered documents unsealed in the case against 19-year-old Shannon...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Wednesday it would increase security at overseas airports with nonstop flights to the country and U.S. officials cited concerns al Qaeda operatives in Syria and Yemen were developing bombs that could be smuggled onto planes. The...

Sydney, June 25 (IANS) The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) and other spy agencies will be given more powers under a new proposal as fears grow over threats to national security from Australians fighting with terrorist groups in Iraq and Syria. Attorney...

By Mary Papenfuss SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Ever dreamed of owning a Scud missile? Save your pennies, because one of the last privately owned Scuds in the United States will be auctioned to the public next month. The Scud-A (with inoperable missile) is among more than 100...

PARIS (AP) — France's president held an emergency meeting Thursday to discuss possible military options for Iraq and Syria, after recent advances by Islamic extremist fighters that have destabilized the region. President Francois Hollande said in a statement afterward that France...

Around 150 Australians have fought with radical militants in Syria and Iraq, raising fears of a terrorist threat to Australia if the fighters return home, the foreign minister said on Thursday. Foreign Minister Julie Bishop said she had canceled a number...

Felipe VI has been officially sworn in as the new king of Spain at the country's parliament. His accession to the throne follows the abdication of his father Juan Carlos. The retiring monarch handed over to his son at midnight, in the first royal transition in the country since the...

By Alexandra Hudson BERLIN (Reuters) - Battle-hardened jihadists returning from Syria's civil war are no longer an 'abstract threat' but a 'deadly danger' to Europe, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere said on Wednesday. An estimated 2,000 Europeans, including some 320...

Pro-Russian separatists shot down an army transport plane in east Ukraine on Saturday, killing 49 servicemen and dealing a blow to a military campaign to defeat the rebels and hold the country together. President Petro Poroshenko summoned his security chiefs for consultations and...

For the first time in history, Islamic prayers and readings from the Quran will be heard at the Vatican on Sunday, in a move by Pope Francis to usher in peace between Israelis and Palestinians. Francis issued the invitation to Israeli President Shimon Peres and Palestinian...

(Reuters) - Pakistani television channel Geo News is suing the powerful spy agency for defamation over accusations of being anti-state, it said on Friday, in a move unprecedented in a country where public criticism of the military is taboo. In the latest twist in a saga that...

(Al Jazeera)- Hillary Clinton favoured arming Syria's rebels early in that country's civil war but was overruled by President Barack Obama, the former secretary of state said in her new memoir. Clinton's long-awaited book "Hard Choices" - seen as an unofficial start to her...

Chinese President Xi Jinping repeated on Thursday a call for a political resolution to the Syrian crisis and his country’s support for an inclusive political transition and offered to boost aid for Syrian refugees, Reuters reported. “China respects the reasonable demands of the...

BANGKOK (AP) — The three-finger salute from the Hollywood movie "The Hunger Games" is being used as a real symbol of resistance in Thailand. Protesters against the military coup are flashing the gesture as a silent act of rebellion, and they're being threatened with arrest if they...