Iranian state television is quoting the country's atomic chief as saying the Islamic Republic would need only five days to ramp up its uranium enrichment to 20 percent - a level at which the material could start to be used for a nuclear weapon. State TV's website on Tuesday quoted Ali...

President Donald Trump was poised to unveil his strategy for Afghanistan on Monday, putting his mark on America's longest war in his first formal address to the nation since becoming commander-in-chief. Having repeatedly pledged to withdraw US troops from Afghanistan after 16 frustrating...

South Sudan has grounded planes belonging to United Nations peacekeepers in a dispute over control of the airport in the capital Juba, a government spokesman said on Monday. The move threatens to further delay the deployment of the latest 4,000 peacekeepers to be assigned to the African...

The U.N.'s refugee agency (UNHCR) on Sunday voiced "grave concern" over the eviction of 800 people from a Rome building squatted mainly by asylum seekers and refugees from Eritrea and Ethiopia. The agency said 200 of those expelled from the building on Saturday had had to sleep on the...