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The blockade imposed on Qatar by four Arab states must be lifted before the country can engage into a dialogue, Qatar’s Defense Minister Khalid bin Mohammed al-Attiyah said.

Saudi Arabia,…

Nine people are dead and the death toll could rise after emergency crews pulled dozens of people from a sweltering tractor-trailer found parked outside a Walmart in the midsummer Texas heat,…

The Syrian military has declared a halt in fighting in parts of the rebel-held Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus.

The move came after Russia, an ally of the government, said it had…

A man armed with a chainsaw wounded at least five people, two of them seriously, on Monday in a small Swiss town that was then put into lockdown as police hunted for the suspect. Police said the…

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived Monday in Qatar from Kuwait on the last leg of a Persian Gulf tour that also included Saudi Arabia.

He is scheduled to hold talks with Qatar’s…

Sources have told CNN that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is thinking about early exit amid widening differences with President Donald Trump on a number of issues.

A suicide bomber killed at least 25 people, many of them police, in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore on Monday, officials said, an attack which shattered a period of relative calm in Pakistan’…

French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a telephone conversation with Russian and Ukrainian presidents, Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko, said the declaration…

A Taliban suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in the western part of Kabul on Monday, killing up to 35 people and wounding more than 40, government officials said, in one of the worst attacks in…

The highest-ranking Democrat on the US Senate intelligence committee said it was "extremely disturbing" if President Donald Trump was contemplating a pardon for aides that could be implicated in a…

German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government is right to act against what he called unacceptable Turkish policies under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who…

Venezuela’s opposition called a two-day national strike against embattled President Nicolas Maduro after another day of violent clashes on Saturday where the injured included a violinist famous…

Thousands of protesters are expected to rally in the Polish capital of Warsaw on Sunday evening after parliament passed a law putting the Supreme Court under government control.

Two Palestinians have died in separate incidents after clashes with Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry.

Oday Nawajaa, 17, died…

The Syrian army has regained control over the settlement of al-Dakhilah and the As-Sabhavi gas field located about 18 miles south of Raqqa, the self-proclaimed capital of the Islamic State terror…

The number of suspected cholera cases in Yemen is expected to at least double by the yearend to over 600,000, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Sunday.

“The…

Interpol has circulated a list of 173 alleged “Islamic State” (IS) fighters who might be trained to carry out suicide attacks in Europe. The list was compiled using US intelligence from operations…

The US has tried to bolster the Afghan government in Helmand Province with air support in their fighting against the Taliban, but the support appears to have gone horribly wrong today, as a US…

US Attorney General Jeff Sessions met with the Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak to discuss Trump campaign matters during the 2016 presidential election, according to US intelligence…

Six people have been killed in the bloodiest spate of Israeli-Palestinian violence for years, following new Israeli security measures at the holiest site in Beit-ul-Moqaddas.

Three Israelis…

One of America’s most senior generals said on Friday he instructed the Kurdish YPG militia to change its “brand” a day or so before it unveiled an alliance with Syrian Arabs in 2015 under the name…

Qatar’s emir says the country remains open to dialogue with four Arab nations that have isolated it, but that any resolution to the crisis must respect his country’s sovereignty.

Sheikh…

A source close to Saudi Arabia’s rulers has given further details of how Mohammed bin Nayef, the former crown prince, was summarily removed from his post last month.

Mexico’s spiraling violence reached new heights with 2,234 murders in June, the country’s deadliest month in at least 20 years, according to government data.

The Syrian armed forces announced the ceasefire regime in Eastern Ghouta starting Saturday noon, the local media reported.

The ceasefire is reported to come in force at 12 pm local time on…