Around 3,500 US troops have arrived in Poland, one of the largest deployments of US forces in Europe since the end of the Cold War in 1991, sparking immediate anger ...

At least 65,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled persecution and violence in Myanmar to neighboring Bangladesh since the army launched a crackdown in the northwestern Rakhine State early October, the United Nations ...

Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim will be traveling to Iraq on an apparent mission to mend fences with the Iraqi leadership, which has been bitterly disapproving of, but unable to ...

A gunman stormed a house party and killed at least 11 people and himself during New Year celebrations in the southeastern Brazilian city of Campinas late on Saturday. Police in ...

One person was seriously injured when a suicide bomber aged around 10 blew herself up in a New Year’s Eve attack in the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, witnesses and ...

At least one gunman shot his way into an Istanbul nightclub packed with hundreds of New Year’s revellers on Sunday, killing 36 people including 16 foreigners and wounding more than ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided not to expel US diplomats in reprisal for Washington’s recent sanctions. “We will not create problems for U.S. diplomats. We will not expel anybody,” ...

Secretary of State John Kerry defended the United States’ decision to abstain – and not veto – a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territories, saying Israel’s policies ...

Moscow has vowed retaliation if Washington issues further economic sanctions over alleged Russian cyber attacks during the US presidential elections. “To be honest, we are tired of the lie about the ...

Incoming UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres says the crisis in Syria “has become a cancer on a global scale.” Guterres made the remarks during an interview with Portugal’s SIC television ...