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US President Donald Trump rallied his loyal supporters with a stridently populist and security-dominated message Friday, declaring the start of...

At least seven soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack on military positions in northeast Nigeria, a civilian vigilante...

Wall Street opened lower Friday, taking a break from the steady rally of the past three weeks, amid a generally...

Saudis railed against "sin" and "evil" on Friday in an online backlash against the kingdom's first Comic-Con pop culture festival....

Turkish armed forces and allied Syrian rebels have completely taken the IS bastion of Al-Bab in northern Syria from jihadists,...

Sales of new US homes started the year on an upswing, with buyers in the Northeast snapping up the largest...

The new leader of Hamas in Gaza, Yahya Sinwar, made his first public appearance since his election for the inauguration...

A report expected to criticise Israel's prime minister and the armed forces command over their conduct in the runup to...

President Donald Trump took the unusual step Friday of publicly criticizing the FBI, saying it was failing to stop national...

The German government admitted Friday it deported fewer than half the Afghans who were due to be repatriated on a...

Donor countries meeting in Oslo on Friday pledged $672 million (634 million euros) in emergency aid for people threatened by...

Dozens of Coptic Christians have left Egypt's Sinai Peninsula after a string of jihadist attacks killed three Christians in the...

A train crash that killed 148 people may have been caused deliberately as part of a "conspiracy" hatched in Pakistan,...

An 18-month prison sentence for an Israeli soldier who shot dead a wounded Palestinian assailant is an "unacceptable" punishment for...

Rare scandal was swirling around Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on Friday as he was forced to deny involvement in...

Fast bowler Morne Morkel has been included in South Africa´s squad for three Test matches in New Zealand starting on...

A Saudi minister held talks with an Iranian delegation about the possibility of Iranian pilgrims rejoining the annual hajj despite...

China called on the US to shoulder more responsibility in tackling North Korea's rogue nuclear programme Friday, slapping down claims...

The Iraqi air force struck members of the Islamic State group inside neighbouring Syria Friday, officials said, adding that the...

Hundreds of Palestinian protesters clashed with Israeli soldiers Friday in the powderkeg West Bank city of Hebron on the anniversary...