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The UN Security Council demanded Wednesday that Syria immediately implement a peace plan by special envoy Kofi Annan, ...

A Syrian military source on Monday refuted as "baseless" some media reports about the arrival of Russian warships ...

A Syrian military source on Monday refuted as "baseless" some media reports about the arrival of Russian warships ...

Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty M. Natalegawa received Chief of Myanmar National Human Rights Commission (MNHCR) U ...

A Taliban roadside bomb tore through a civilian vehicle in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, killing nine children and ...

The US defense chief held talks in Afghanistan on Wednesday, acknowledging that a series of "deeply troubling" ...

NATO chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen expressed shock and sadness at the shooting spree by a rogue US soldier in ...

US President Barack Obama called Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Sunday "to express his shock and sadness" over a ...

The Red Cross Saturday failed to agree a deal to evacuate wounded Syrians and Western journalists from battered Homs ...

Schapelle Leigh Corby, the Australian prisoner over a narcotics case, has refused to be moved from the Kerobokan ...

The United States supports calls for a humanitarian ceasefire in Syria to bring relief to civilians caught up in a ...

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

The World Bank has stated that flooding in urban areas and cities creates a higher risk of increasing poverty in the ...

Al Shabaab rebels in Somalia have expelled the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from areas they control ...

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told her State Department employees that she was ready to be out of the public ...