BEIRUT/BAGHDAD: Syrian Kurdish special forces have joined an offensive against Islamic State militants in eastern Syria, a commander said, after the jihadists recovered...
BEIRUT/BAGHDAD: Syrian Kurdish special forces have joined an offensive against Islamic State militants in eastern Syria, a commander said, after the jihadists recovered...
JAKARTA: An Indonesian search and rescue agency official estimated there would be no survivors from the Lion Air plane that crashed into the...
Berlin: German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told leaders of her Christian Democrats (CDU) that she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman at...
Seoul, Nearly 150,000 South Koreans have backed a demand by three sisters to have their father executed for the brutal killing of their...
TBILISI, Georgia's presidential election will go to a second round runoff between two of the country's former foreign ministers after no single candidate...
Frankfurt am Main, German Chancellor Angela Merkel faced a bitter political reality on Monday after the parties in her fragile coalition suffered heavy...
Rio de Janeiro: Former army captain Jair Bolsonaro was elected president of Brazil on Sunday, promising a fundamental change in direction for the...
Dhaka, A Bangladesh court on Monday sentenced former prime minister and opposition leader Khaleda Zia to another seven years in prison on corruption...
SINGAPORE, A shallow earthquake of magnitude 6.4 struck on Monday south of the resort town of Ushuaia in Argentina, the United States Geological...
JAKARTA: An aircraft with 189 aboard that crashed into the sea off Indonesia's island of Java on Monday requested to return to base...
Jakarta: An Indonesian Lion Air plane carrying 188 passengers and crew crashed into the sea Monday, officials said, moments after it had asked...
San Salvador: A group of around 300 migrants left the El Salvador capital on foot on Sunday heading for the border with Guatemala...
BRASILIA: Brazilians began voting on Sunday in the most polarized election in decades as anger over corruption and crime were expected to carry...
DAMASCUS: Syria's National Museum of Damascus opened its rich trove of antiquities to visitors again on Sunday, seven years after war forced them...
New Delhi: India's Zika outbreak is spreading, with officials saying Sunday that the mosquito-borne virus has been detected in the western state of...
PRAGUE: U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says the military has already begun delivering jersey barriers to the southern border in conjunction with plans...
BEIJING: Rescuers recovered two bodies after a public bus plunged nearly 60 metres (200 ft) into a river after colliding with a car...
BERLIN: Police say a night train travelling from Berlin to Zurich has collided with a small construction vehicle in southwestern Germany. No one...
