President Vladimir Putin says Russia wants to normalise ties with the United States and join efforts in the fight against international "terrorism". Speaking in a live state-of-the-nation address,...
The Islamic State group says it was behind a car and knife rampage at a US college that left 11 people injured. Monday's attack at Ohio State University was carried out by one of its students,...
The director of the CIA has warned US President-elect Donald Trump that ending the Iran nuclear deal would be “disastrous” and “the height of folly”. In a BBC interview, John Brennan also...
A small Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard vessel pointed its weapon at a U. S. military helicopter in the Strait of Hormuz on Saturday, two U.S. defense officials told Reuters on Monday, an action...
Syrian government forces have captured a key part of eastern Aleppo, splitting rebel-held territory in two. State TV said government troops were dismantling mines and explosives and continuing their...
Syrian government forces have been making rapid advances into eastern Aleppo, forcing thousands of civilians to flee. The Syrian army captured Jabal Badro on Sunday, a day after seizing Hanano...
Syrian government forces have retaken a second rebel-held district in eastern Aleppo, military sources say. They say the army and its allies had "fully recaptured" Jabal Badro. Hours earlier, rebel...
Voters in France are choosing between Francois Fillon and Alain Juppe to be their centre-right presidential candidate in next year's election. Mr Fillon is now seen as the favourite to win Sunday's...
Syrian government forces have retaken the largest rebel-controlled district in eastern Aleppo, state media report. The capture of Masaken Hanano, in north-east Aleppo, could give Syria's army...
By 146 B. C., the Mediterranean Sea, a hotbed of endemic battlefield between ancient navies had successfully become the imperial Roman “Mare Nostrum” - our common sea. Rome’s hegemony around...
Russian President Vladimir Putin presented a Russian passport to U. S. actor Steven Seagal on Friday and said he hoped it would serve as a symbol of how the fractious ties between Moscow and...
Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has warned that he will let hundreds of thousands of migrants travel on to Europe if pushed by the EU. He was reacting to a non-binding vote by the European...
An Australian militant thought dead is still alive and under arrest in the Middle East, according to reports. The Australian government in May said Neil Prakash, a senior recruiter for the so-called...
It's a familiar scene: Syria Civil Defence, also known as the "White Helmets," rushing to rescue a man covered in rubble, but unlike thousands of other videos from Aleppo, this one is staged. The...
The Turkish military has said that three of its soldiers have been killed and 10 more wounded in Syria by an air strike allegedly launched by Syrian government forces. A statement from the Turkish...
France has accused Syria and its allies of using political uncertainty in the US to launch "total war" against opposition-held areas in the country and called for new sanctions on Bashar al-Assad's...
The U. S. Ministry of Defense on Tuesday confirmed that a senior al Qaeda leader was killed in a U.S. air strike near Sarmada, Syria, last week. Abu Afghan Al-Masri, an Egyptian who joined al Qaeda...
The number of people living under siege in Syria has doubled this year to almost one million, the UN says. Emergency Relief Co-ordinator Stephen O'Brien said the figure had jumped from 486,700 to...
France said on Monday it had foiled a possible militant attack after detaining seven people, including some who had been in the ranks of Islamic State in Syria. The arrests come a year after a state...
Mali, with a population of some 12 million, and a landmass three and a half times the size of Germany, is a land-locked largely Saharan Desert country in the center of western Africa, bordered by...
