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A foreign national kidnapped at the weekend in central Somalia is an American journalist and writer, a regional ...

Assassins have shot dead a former senior leader of Al-Qaeda in Iraq who defected from the extremist network and sided ...

The murder rate rose in Guatemala in the past four years during the presidency of Alvaro Colom, with more than 24,000 ...

Gulf Arab states will pull out their observers sent to Syria as part of an Arab League mission, they announced in a ...

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney said Monday he would consider it an "act of war" if Iran was to shut down ...

Israeli forces arrested a Hamas lawmaker at his home in the West Bank city of Ramallah overnight, a source from the ...

A spokesman for NATO-led forces said Tuesday that 2011 had been a "remarkably successful year" against insurgents in ...

Canada supports the Arab League plan for an immediate departure of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and urges the UN ...

A key US senator on Sunday said the United States was "pleased with the progress" of Myanmar`s reforms but urged the ...

Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan said Sunday that arrests have been made over attacks in the city of Kano that ...

Two suspected Al-Qaeda fighters were killed in clashes with Yemeni troops in the restive southern province of Abyan, a ...

Libya would fall into a "civil war" if the National Transitional Council resigns, the chief of the nation`s ruling ...

The bodies of four French soldiers were flown home Sunday, two days after their deaths at the hands of an Afghan ...

The Palestinians urged Israel to free dozens of Palestinian lawmakers during a new round of exploratory talks held in ...

Indonesian police are looking for a cargo vessel that was used by an international narcotic drug syndicate to smuggle ...