Russia and India are ready to deepen cooperation in fighting terrorism, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Wednesday on a visit to the Indian capital.
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Russia on Wednesday responded disparagingly to President Barack Obama’s annual State of the Union address, claiming it showed that the United States wanted to dominate world affairs.
US President Barack Obama put foreign policy achievements and improving US economy at the center of his sixth State of the Union address.
He struck a defiant tone for his dealings with the…
Eleven Israelis were reportedly wounded in a stabbing attack on a Tel Aviv bus Wednesday morning. The assailant was shot by the Israeli police. Three of the victims are in serious condition.
Houthi militants seized the Yemeni presidential palace a day after a ceasefire had been reached following violent clashes in the county’s capital, a Yemeni army commander said.
The Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was seriously wounded by an Iraqi airstrike in the city of Al-Qa’im near the Syrian border, Sputnik reported, citing al-Hayat…
I started my political career in 1991 – the same year as the first Gulf War and the Middle East Peace Conference in Madrid. The leaders of the time were well aware of the complex links between the…
Unidentified assailants blew up the car of a Hamas security official in Gaza during the night, the interior ministry said Tuesday, in a sign of increasing instability in the Palestinian territory…
Rights group Amnesty International (AI) urged European countries on Tuesday to come clean on alleged cooperation with CIA operations involving torture and help bring those responsible to justice…
Eighteen Nobel Prize winners called on Saudi academics to condemn the flogging of Saudi blogger Raif Badawi in an open letter published by British newspaper the Independent on Tuesday.
The militant Islamic State group, which holds territory in Iraq and Syria, issued a video online on Tuesday purporting to show two Japanese captives and demanding $200 million from…
The United Nations Security Council condemned the recent escalation of attacks by Boko Haram and called for a multinational military effort to tackle the Nigerian extremist group.
The…
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) has increased terrorism threat level in the country to “high” amid terror attacks in France, Canada and Australia, the police said Tuesday.…
The people of Zambia went to the polls on Tuesday to elect a new president following the death of Michael Sata in October 2014. Eleven candidates are vying for the post of president in Zambia. The…
Yemen's powerful Houthi movement fought artillery battles with the army near the presidential palace in Sanaa on Monday, throwing the fragile Arab state deeper into turmoil and drawing accusations…
Prosecutors on Monday charged Bahrain’s Shiite opposition chief with attempting to overthrow the regime and sent him to trial despite international calls for his release.
Sheikh Ali Salman…
Many security researchers in the United States remain skeptical about the degree of North Korea’s involvement in the hacking of Sony Pictures computer systems early January, in which sensitive…
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko rejected a peace plan proposed to him last week by his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov said Sunday evening, according…
Bangladesh has ended its confinement of opposition leader Khaleda Zia after a surge in political violence left 27 people dead, but her party vowed to continue a nationwide transport blockade.
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Ukrainian troops launched a massive assault on militia-held areas Sunday after an order from Kiev, a presidential aide said. The self-proclaimed Donetsk republic’s leader accused Kiev of trying to…
Suspected Boko Haram fighters from Nigeria kidnapped around 80 people, many of them children, and killed three others on Sunday in a cross-border attack on villages in northern Cameroon, army and…
An Israeli helicopter strike in Syria killed a commander from Lebanon’s Hezbollah and the son of the group’s late military leader Imad Moughniyah, Hezbollah said, in a major blow that…
The European Union will appeal a December court decision ordering the removal of the Palestinian resistance group Hamas from the EU terrorism blacklist, foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini…
The German anti-Islam and anti-Immigration group PEGIDA cancelled its weekly rally in Dresden for Monday after one of its leaders allegedly received a death threat from the Islamic State. “Please…
Tens of thousands of people gathered Monday in the Russian region of Chechnya to rally against the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. Protesters marched through the streets of downtown…
