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An international financial watchdog said on Friday member states should take action to ward off risks emanating from Iran and…

A senior Syrian Kurdish official on Friday rejected a report from Turkey's president that Syrian Kurds had agreed to let…

Israeli forces shot and killed a Palestinian-American youth during clashes on Friday, the US State Department said, calling for a…

The Shi’ite Muslim minority in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province have long felt marginalised by the Sunni ruling dynasty, and protests…

The gunman in Wednesday's attack on Canada's capital had a criminal record and recently applied for a passport, planning to…

Iraqi forces are months away from being able to start waging any kind of sustained ground offensive against the Islamic…

A Bangladeshi Islamist party leader serving 90 years in prison for crimes during Bangladesh's 1971 war of independence has died,…

Iraqi Kurdish lawmakers approved a plan on Wednesday to send fighters to the Syrian town of Kobani to relieve fellow…

Eight Shi'ite members of Pakistan's ethnic Hazara minority were killed, and one wounded, on Thursday, after gunmen opened fire on…

(The story contains language readers may find offensive in paragraph 12 of section headed '21 February: The downfall'.) In the afternoon…