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President Vladimir Putin asked Russia's upper house on Tuesday to revoke the right it had granted him to order a…

Ukrainian government forces accused pro-Russian separatists of firing on Ukrainian military checkpoints in several parts of the east on Monday…

US Secretary of State John Kerry was in Iraqi Kurdistan on Tuesday to urge its leaders not to withdraw from…

Israeli Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman said on Tuesday forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad were responsible for an attack…

The strategic Shia-majority north Iraq town of Tal Afar and its airport were in the hands of Sunni Arab militants…

A South Korean military conscript who killed five members of his unit was captured on Monday after shooting and wounding…

Militant Islamist groups in Syria are recruiting children as young as 15 and sending them into battle after promising them…

Israeli troops killed two Palestinians on Sunday, Palestinian medics and a militant group said, as Israel pressed on with its…

An al Qaeda splinter group thrust east from a newly-captured Iraqi-Syrian border post on Sunday, taking three towns in the…

South Korean troops were engaged in a shootout on Sunday with a conscript soldier who had killed five comrades in…