Lebanese security forces will launch an operation against militants near informal refugee camps in the country's east after coming under attack there, Lebanon's prime minister said on Tuesday. Saad...
Nearly a dozen Syrian rebels have been killed in hit-and-run clashes with a US-backed alliance dominated by Kurdish forces in the country's north, a monitoring group said on Tuesday. Rebels were...
South Sudan’s president Salva Kiir has declared a state of emergency in part of the country’s north-west. The statement, broadcast on state television, did not give a reason for the decree. The...
Niroshan Dickwella and Asela Gunaratne guided Sri Lanka to a record 388 target to beat Zimbabwe by four wickets Tuesday in a pulsating end to their one-off Test. A crucial 121-run sixth-wicket stand...
Dozens of police officers wearing bulletproof vests and toting assault rifles guard the camp of an international off-road race across China's troubled far-western region of Xinjiang. The show of...
A suicide car bomb attack killed four people overnight at a Kurdish security checkpoint in northeast Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor said Tuesday. The attack comes as Kurdish...
Niroshan Dickwella struck a defiant half-century to keep Sri Lanka's chase alive after Zimbabwe skipper Graeme Cremer took two wickets on the final day of their one-off Test in Colombo on Tuesday....
Hemmed in by Myanmar security forces and menaced by abductions and killings, Rohingya Muslims in a conflict-scarred corner of Rakhine State say fear is one of the few constants in their lives. Last...
SECURITY is one critical ingredient that helps a nation to grow. In an environment where security is not guaranteed, people feel insecure and thereby act in fear. THE situation even becomes more...
President Rodrigo Duterte has asked lawmakers to extend martial law in the southern Philippines as the initial two-month limit approaches with no end in sight to the battle for control of a major...
A group of community elders in northeast Nigeria where Boko Haram has waged a bloody eight-year insurgency are urging the Islamists to enter peace talks, a move some see as motivated by ethnic...
Australia has created a super ministry combining its security agencies including the domestic spy service, border force and national police, the country's prime minister said on Tuesday, calling the...
Donald Trump backed away from a campaign promise to scrap a major nuclear security deal with Iran on Tuesday, with officials announcing the agreement and related sanctions relief will stay in place...
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu opposes the southwest Syria ceasefire agreed by Russia and the US since it would enable Iran to solidify its presence there, an official said Monday. The...
Afghan security forces supported by US air power have retaken the center of volatile Nawa district from the Taliban in southern Helmand province, US officials said Monday. Backed by strikes from F-16...
At least 15 Yemeni rebels and eight soldiers were killed Monday as government forces attacked insurgent positions in two areas in the southwest of the country, military officials said. Loyalists...
Heavy bombardment and fierce fighting shook the Islamic State group's Syrian stronghold Raqa on Monday, as US-backed forces said they captured a new neighbourhood from entrenched jihadists. Bursts of...
Revenge attacks against Iraqis accused of siding with the Islamic State group in Mosul are on the rise after Iraqi forces recaptured the city, the UN envoy warned Monday. Jan Kubis told the UN...
The bodies of eight missing Malian soldiers have been found following a presumed jihadist attack on July 9, official sources told AFP Monday. The soldiers were ambushed in Mali's northeast and two...
Tribal militia forces have kidnapped two Roman Catholic priests in the troubled North Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said Monday. Kidnappings are frequent in this...
