Baghdad---Iraqi government and allied forces will launch an offensive aimed at retaking the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State group in the...
Baghdad---Iraqi government and allied forces will launch an offensive aimed at retaking the city of Ramadi from the Islamic State group in the...
Tunis---Tunisia has asked Italy to extradite a Moroccan suspected of involvement in the deadly attack on the Bardo museum in Tunis in March,...
Adam Mahama Accra---One person has been arrested in Ghana after a leading member of the country's biggest opposition party was attacked with acid...
Bangkok---Police arrested several anti-junta activists Friday for small protests marking a year since Thailand's generals seized power from the elected government, as the...
Bamako---Up to nine civilians, including an aid worker for a European charity, were killed after rebels withdrew from a village they had seized...
Riyadh---A suicide bomber set off an explosion during weekly prayers in a Shia mosque of eastern Saudi Arabia leaving many dead Friday, the...
Tehran---Iran and world powers are to resume talks in the Austrian capital next week to draft a final accord on the country's nuclear...
Paris---Paris's iconic Eiffel Tower was shut to tourists on Friday as staff walked off the job to protest a surge in gangs of...
Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan---Pakistan's Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif concluded a visit to the Central Asian region Friday, pushing to expand...
Sintra, Portugal---The economic skies above Europe are clearing after the long years of crisis and it is imperative that governments take advantage of...
Rome---A priest of the Syriac Catholic Church in the western Syrian city of Homs was kidnapped Thursday along with one of his colleagues,...
Juba---South Sudanese government tanks backed by helicopter gunships have pushed back rebels from a key oil town, state television showed Friday, as aid...
Washington---Iraqi troops fighting Islamic State group forces have cleared a ground route into the country's largest oil refinery, the US military said Friday....
Yangon---A senior US diplomat called on Myanmar Friday to grant its persecuted Rohingya minority citizenship rights as a way to help reduce the...
Yangon---A senior US diplomat called on Myanmar Friday to grant its persecuted Rohingya minority citizenship rights as a way to help reduce the...
Kampala---Controversial plans for the "export" of 283 Ugandan medics to the Caribbean have been halted after the foreign affairs ministry said most of...
Jerusalem---A senior official in Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's rightwing Likud party on Friday rejected fresh US criticism of the premier as unjustified...
Dmitry Peskov Moscow---President Vladimir Putin's spokesman said Friday the Kremlin was doing all it could to secure the release of two men that...
