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Afghanistan inaugurated its first new president in a decade on Monday, swearing in technocrat Ashraf Ghani to head a power-sharing…

Riot police advanced on Hong Kong democracy protesters in the early hours of Monday, firing volleys of tear gas after…

US-led air strikes hit grain silos and other targets in Islamic State-controlled territory in northern and eastern Syria overnight, killing…

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has secured a temporary peace in the troubled east which he says gives him a chance…

Hong Kong riot police used pepper spray to disperse protesters around government headquarters on Saturday, fuelling tension ahead of a…

U.S. coalition-led warplanes struck jihadis attacking a town near the Turkish border for the first time Saturday, as well as…

Islamic State fighters tightened their siege of a town on Syria's border with Turkey on Friday despite US-led air strikes…

President Petro Poroshenko on Thursday ordered a temporary closure of Ukraine's porous border with Russia and voiced plans to apply…

A war plane attacked a port in Benghazi on Wednesday in a strike claimed by forces loyal to former general…

A Syrian government minister said US-led air strikes against militants are going in the "right direction" because the government had…