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US Secretary of State John Kerry will meet his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov next week in Paris with issues from ...

A Super Hornet fighter jet has carried out Australias first bombing raid in the fight against the Islamist State group ...

The United States is pushing Turkey to join the fight against Islamic militants, amid frustration and wariness in both ...

Beijing has completed a runway for military aircraft on a South China Sea island also claimed by Vietnam, state-run ...

Formal talks between the Hong Kong government and students are set for the end of this week but pro-democracy ...

The US military unleashed a wave of air strikes against Islamic State jihadists in Syria and Iraq this weekend, ...

At least 30 Syrian children were killed Wednesday in a double bombing by a lone assailant at a school in the ...

The Palestine Liberation Organisation said Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blatantly manipulated the facts ...

Palestinian leader Mahmud Abbas accused Israel on Friday of a "genocidal crime" in Gaza, telling the United Nations ...

About 1,000 volunteers from the Asia-Pacific region have sought to join the Islamic State group, a senior military ...

Police in Melbourne have shot dead a "known terror suspect" who stabbed two officers, a day after the Islamic State ...

Syrias opposition National Coalition on Tuesday welcomed US-led air strikes against the Islamic State group, but urged ...

US air strikes killed 50 Al-Qaeda militants and eight civilians, including children, in northern Syria on Tuesday, the ...

At least two policemen were killed when a bomb exploded near a checkpoint outside the foreign ministry headquarters in ...

Scotland has rejected independence in a referendum that leaves the United Kingdom intact but opens the door to wider ...