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Suspected Nigerian Islamists opened fire and set off bombs at a market in the northeastern city of Maiduguri on ...

Rebels in Sudan`s Darfur region said Monday they have detained 49 international peacekeepers and three suspected ...

The top US military commander said he believed it would be "premature" to take military action against Iran in ...

Yemen`s sole presidential candidate who will be voted in this week is committed to "destroying" Al-Qaeda, US Deputy ...

Several people were wounded in explosion near a church outside the Nigerian capital on Sunday, the latest blast in a ...

Iraq wants Syria to participate in an Arab summit that is to be held in Baghdad if it is not barred from doing so by ...

Afghanistan`s defence ministry has begun ordering soldiers who have families in Pakistan to move them to Afghanistan ...

Russian troops suffered 17 dead and 24 wounded in a days-long battle with insurgents in the restive North Caucasus ...

A faction of Yemen`s separatist Southern Movement on Saturday called for a day of "civil disobedience" to disrupt next ...

A rocket fired at Israel on Saturday by Palestinian militants instead hit a house in the Gaza Strip, but there were no ...

North Korea Saturday rejected the South`s call for talks aimed at restarting reunions for families separated since the ...

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun said the international community must respect Syria`s sovereignty after ...

The Afghan defense minister warned late Friday that a US proposal to cut the size of Afghan security forces by more ...

Palestinian militants fired two rockets at southern Israel on Friday evening, causing neither casualties or damage, an ...

Chinese Vice Foreign Minister Zhai Jun said Beijing opposed armed intervention and forced "regime change" in Syria, a ...