The United States has urged Libyan strongman Khalifa Haftar to end his offensive to seize Tripoli and accused Russia of exploiting the conflict. The US made its most explicit call against the self-styled Libyan National Army of Haftar, who was earlier praised by President Donald Trump,...

Myanmar struck back Friday after a surge of global legal pressure over its alleged crimes against the Rohingya, branding an investigation by the International Criminal Court (ICC) "not in accordance with international law." The ICC approved a full probe Thursday into Myanmar's 2017 bloody...

Russia landed attack helicopters and troops at a sprawling air base in northern Syria vacated by U.S. forces, the Russian Defence Ministry's Zvezda TV channel said Friday. Armed Russian military police were shown in footage aired on Zvezda flying into the Syrian air base in northern Aleppo...

  Iraq will never be the same after weeks of demonstrations demanding sweeping reform, its top Shiite cleric said on Friday in his most emphatic endorsement yet of the protest movement. Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani said authorities must respond quickly to the demands of the...