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Seventeen suspected Al-Qaeda militants were killed in an air raid that struck one of their hideouts in the southern ...

UN envoy Kofi Annan on Sunday asked the Damascus regime and the opposition to immediately halt violence and the use of ...

French voters headed to the polls on Sunday for the first round of a presidential election that is expected to mark ...

The opposition Syrian National Council renewed on Saturday its call for the United Nations to intervene militarily in ...

The Pentagon said Thursday it had sent two members of China`s Uighur minority who were detained without charge for ...

The Pakistani-based Haqqani network was responsible for a series of attacks in Afghanistan this week, the US ...

Rebels from Sudan`s Darfur region on Thursday said they seized two Sudanese military positions north of the Heglig oil ...

Seven Al-Qaeda suspects, including four Somali nationals, have been killed in battles with Yemeni troops near the ...

The United States invited Myanmar`s foreign minister and said Wednesday that democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, who is ...

An air strike on an Al-Qaeda position near the southern Yemeni town of Loder killed six militants on Wednesday, the ...

Agence France-Presse won its first Pulitzer Prize on Monday as Afghan photographer Massoud Hossaini scooped up the ...

War planes fired several missiles at a suspected Somali pirate base in the north of the war-torn country, wounding two ...

Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula is holding a Saudi diplomat kidnapped last month in Yemen`s main southern city of ...

The Dalai Lama said Monday there are hopeful signs that China will push through political reforms in China and Tibet ...

Iran will respond with force to any threats to its territorial integrity, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on ...