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South Sudanese troops and rebels battled in the key oil town of Bentiu Monday as the government pushed forward a…

European leaders are desperately pushing a new peace bid for Ukraine as the country slipped towards what its interim president…

Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas was to hold talks with Hamas chief Khaled Meshaal in Doha on Monday for the first…

Beirut (AFP) - Al-Nusra Front, the Al-Qaeda franchise in Syria, has seized a moderate rebel commander in the southern province…

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Saturday asked his US counterpart John Kerry to press Ukraine to halt its military…

Police found nine more bodies Saturday after a deadly rampage by tribal separatists in India's remote northeastern Assam state, taking…

Seven European OSCE inspectors were freed on Saturday in a flashpoint town in east Ukraine, where surrounded pro-Moscow rebels are…

At least seven people were killed Saturday in a huge explosion believed to be from a roadside bomb in the…

President Vladimir Putin will make his first visit to the Crimean peninsula since Russia annexed the territory in March, reports…

Egypt's military-installed leaders must prove they are serious about bringing democracy to the world's largest Arab nation, US Secretary of State John…