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The US Central Intelligence Agency has been feeding information to select rebel fighters in Syria to try to make them…

Syrian rebels have gained ground in the Golan Heights, which is partly occupied by Israel, launching coordinated attacks in the…

North Korea has produced another video showing the United States under attack, this time with the White House and the…

Israeli forces on Tuesday razed four temporary structures in two West Bank settler outposts, police said, in an operation just…

Pope Francis knelt at the tomb of St Peter and donned the symbols of papal power at a sumptuous inauguration…

Syria's main opposition National Coalition early Tuesday elected Ghassan Hitto, a former US-based IT executive with Islamist leanings, as prime…

A Saudi court sentenced an Indonesian housemaid to death after she was convicted of murdering her employers' four-year-old child, the…

French President Francois Hollande urged Europe's leaders on Thursday to lift an arms embargo on Syria to help rebels battling…

It will take Iran "over a year or so" to develop a nuclear weapon, US President Barack Obama told Israel's…

A Tunisian cigarette vendor who set himself alight in a street of the capital Tunis has died from the severe…