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Iran stands ready to expand its military and security ties with Iraq, its armed forces chief of staff said Sunday, a ...

The daughter of Iranian former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is standing trial on charges of making anti-regime ...

A British soldier was killed in Afghanistan on Thursday when the vehicle he was travelling in was blown up in an ...

Survivors of devastating flash floods in the southern Philippines face growing threats from disease, officials warned ...

Indonesia is discussing the mechanism for transfer of technology with South Korea with regard to the purchase of three ...

Syria agreed on Monday to let Arab states monitor its compliance with an Arab League peace agreement aimed at stopping ...

A Sri Lankan Appeal Court on Friday dismissed former army chief Sarath Fonseka`s plea against his 30-month prison ...

Iraq took control of the last US military base in the country on Friday, a day after US forces formally marked the end ...

A flag-lowering ceremony marking the end of the US mission in Iraq was held on Thursday afternoon near Baghdad, nearly ...

A Saudi woman was beheaded Monday after being convicted of practising sorcery, which is banned in the ...

Australia will dramatically cut the number of soldiers it has serving in Afghanistan over the next year, bringing ...

Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki headed to Washington on Sunday, for the first time as leader of a country virtually ...

NATO and Russia began a fresh push on Thursday to resolve a deep rift over a European missile shield with the alliance ...

NATO allies will strive to convince Moscow this week that their European missile shield is not aimed at Russia after ...

Norway will withdraw most of its troops from Afghanistan in 2013, a year before the bulk of NATO`s forces, Norwegian ...