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 Thailand on Friday played down talk of a military coup ahead of a planned "shutdown" of the capital next week…

India asked the United States on Friday to withdraw a diplomat from its embassy in New Delhi in the latest…

Iran and Russia are negotiating an oil-for-goods swap that would let Iran lift oil exports substantially, in defiance of the…

Disparate Syrian opposition groups, including several Islamist rebel representatives, met for the first time in the Spanish city of Cordoba…

Residents of a Palestinian refugee camp burnt tires and closed roads in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Thursday in protests…

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khomeini said on Thursday that nuclear negotiations with world powers had revealed US enmity towards the…

Reported cases of Christians killed for their faith around the world doubled in 2013 from the year before, with Syria…

Talks to halt violence that has killed at least 1,000 people in South Sudan faced further delay on Wednesday after…

Ministers from the “Friends of Syria” grouping are to meet in Paris Sunday with leaders of the mainstream opposition to…

An al Qaeda affiliate based in Iraq and Syria has vowed to crush rebel groups fighting it and to target…