The death toll from floods and landslides triggered by Tropical Storm Seniang has risen to at least 53 in the Philippines, officials said Wednesday. The storm, also known as Jangmi, brought heavy rains to southern Mindanao island Monday, where floods destroyed bridges...
The UN Security Council on Tuesday rejected a draft resolution calling for an end to Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories within three years. The motion, which was submitted Monday by Jordan after it had been agreed upon by Arab states, failed to obtain the...
(Reuters) - Iran and six world powers are set to resume low-level talks on Iran's nuclear program in Geneva on Jan 15, with wide gaps remaining in their positions, the Iranian foreign minister said. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, the lead negotiator for Iran...
(Reuters) - A fire raging for almost a week at Libya's biggest oil port of Es Sider has destroyed up to 1.8 million barrels of crude and damaged seven storage tanks, causing total damage of $213 million, a top oil official said on Tuesday. The Es Sider terminal and nearby Ras...
(Reuters) - Turkey's top judicial body has suspended four prosecutors who initiated a corruption investigation that targeted the inner circle of President Tayyip Erdogan, Dogan news agency reported on Tuesday. The probe, which became public with raids on Dec. 17 last year, led...
Al-Nusra Front has been a powerful player in the Syrian civil war for a long time now, and now al-Qaeda's affiliate in Syria has become the dominant group in Idlib. Earlier this month, it seized territory and weapons from rebel forces in the northwestern province. That...
(Anadolu News Agency)- Israeli forces detained over 1,000 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem over the course of this year, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) said Tuesday. Abdel-Nasser Farawna, who heads the PLO's authority for prisoners'...
More than 20,000 people have been infected by the deadly Ebola virus in the three worst-affected West African countries as the death toll nears 8,000, the World Health Organization has announced in its latest update on the disease. The UN health...
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(AP)- The Islamic State group has published in its monthly English-language magazine a purported interview with the Jordanian pilot captured last week after his plane crashed in northern Syria. In his statements in the extremist group's Dabiq magazine, First...
DAMASCUS, (UPI) -- The Syrian military, depleted by desertions and casualties, has mobilized reservists and arrested draft-dodgers in the wake of planned peace talks. President Bashar al-Assad , whose country has seen a four-year civil war, an attempt by the Islamic State to...
Beji Caid Essebsi was on Monday officially declared the winner of Tunisia's latest presidential runoff poll. Announcing the final results, election commission chief Chafiq Sersar said Essebsi, the candidate of the Nidaa Tounes Party, won 55.68 percent of votes. His...
Iraqi forces backed by Sunni tribes advanced into the town of Dhuluiyah north of Baghdad on Sunday in a new attempt to push out Islamic State group jihadists, officials said. In October, Iraqi forces retook most of Dhuluiyah from IS, but the jihadists later launched a...
DAMASCUS, (AP)— Three Syrian diplomats left Damascus for Kuwait Monday where they will reopen their country's embassy in the Persian Gulf nation, a Syrian official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity in line with regulations, told The Associated Press...
(Al Jazeera- Agencies)- The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) has killed 120 of its own members, most of them foreign fighters trying to return home, during the past six months, a Syrian monitoring group has said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Sunday...
A senior commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards was killed by a sniper's bullet in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra as he was training Iraqi troops and Shiite militiamen fighting militants of the self-declared Islamic State, Iran says. Brig. Gen. Hamid Taqavi, who...
The NATO- led International Security Assistance Force ended its 13-year combat mission in Afghanistan on Sunday. From Jan. 1, 2015, the mission will evolve into training and advising the nascent Afghan security forces. The 13,000 foreign troops for...
(Anadolu News Agency)- Unprecedented international support for the symbolic recognition of a Palestinian state within the 1967 borders was voiced out during 2014. This support was brought about by a series of motions adopted by a number of European parliaments. The Swedish parliament...
