[ad_1] TRIPOLI Heavy clashes erupted on Sunday between rival factions on the coastal road east of the Libyan capital Tripoli, according to a witness and local reports. The clashes broke out when an armed group…

[ad_1] By Stephen Kalin | MOSUL, Iraq MOSUL, Iraq Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi arrived in Mosul on Sunday and congratulated the armed forces for their “victory” over Islamic State after nearly nine months of…

[ad_1] BEIRUT A U.S.-Russian brokered ceasefire deal for southwestern Syria took effect at noon (0900 GMT) on Sunday, the latest international attempt at peacemaking in the six-year war. The United States, Russia and Jordan reached…

[ad_1] SYDNEY Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is due on Sunday to inaugurate at a French shipyard work on a new fleet of submarines that will form the centerpiece of Australia’s defense strategy for decades…

[ad_1] By David Morgan | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest son, son-in-law and former election campaign manager met with a Russian lawyer linked to the Kremlin soon after Trump clinched the Republican presidential…

[ad_1] HAMBURG U.S. President Donald Trump took a conciliatory tone on Saturday at a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping where the leaders agreed to keep working on two pressing issues: the nuclear threat posed…

[ad_1] By Paul Carrel and Noah Barkin | HAMBURG HAMBURG Leaders from the world’s leading economies broke with U.S. President Donald Trump on climate policy at a G20 summit on Saturday, in a rare public…

[ad_1] MOSCOW Implementation of the Minsk agreements to end the conflict in Ukraine’s crises has been too slow, and there is a need for measures leading to a genuine ceasefire, a Kremlin spokesman said on…

[ad_1] By Terrence Edwards | ULAANBAATAR ULAANBAATAR Populist former martial arts star and businessman Khaltmaa Battulga has won Mongolia’s presidential run-off election, according to voter data from the General Election Commission released on Saturday. The…

[ad_1] By Paul Carrel and Thomas Escritt | HAMBURG HAMBURG Leaders from the world’s top economies meet to forge a consensus on trade and climate change on Saturday after setting their staff to work through…

[ad_1] By Ahmed Mohamed Hassan and Yusri Mohamed | CAIRO/ISMAILIA, Egypt CAIRO/ISMAILIA, Egypt At least 23 Egyptian soldiers were killed when two suicide car bombs tore through military checkpoints in North Sinai province on Friday,…

[ad_1] By Yara Bayoumy | WASHINGTON WASHINGTON The United States, Russia and regional countries have reached a ceasefire deal in southwestern Syria, one of the combat zones in a six-year-old civil war, a U.S. official…

[ad_1] WASHINGTON At least 600 civilians have been killed in strikes in Iraq and Syria by the U.S.-led coalition fighting Islamic State since the campaign began in 2014, according to a report released by the…

[ad_1] By Noah Barkin and Paul Carrel | HAMBURG HAMBURG Leaders from the world’s top economies prepared for tough talks with U.S. President Donald Trump on climate change and trade on Friday as a Group…

[ad_1] TOKYO Two U.S bombers flew over the disputed South China Sea, the U.S. Air Force said in a statement on Friday, asserting the right to treat the region as international territory, despite China’s territorial…

[ad_1] By Tom Miles | CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland CRANS-MONTANA, Switzerland Talks to reunify the divided island of Cyprus collapsed in the early hours of Friday, U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres said after a stormy final session.…

[ad_1] By Joseph Nasr and Andreas Rinke | HAMBURG HAMBURG Protesters threw bottles and torched cars, injuring seven police officers, before a G20 summit in Hamburg on Thursday, tarnishing the start of a meeting Chancellor…

[ad_1] MOSUL, Iraq Islamic State fighters holding out in Mosul on a strip of land along the Tigris River are increasingly using suicide bombers in a desperate attempt to slow the steady advance of Iraqi…

[ad_1] HAMBURG “Welcome to Hell”. That’s the greeting for U.S. President Donald Trump and other world leaders from anti-capitalist protesters in Hamburg who aim to disrupt the G20 summit, already rife with tensions over trade…

[ad_1] BEIJING China’s foreign ministry on Thursday called for all sides to remain calm and exercise restraint after the United States said it was ready to use force, if need be, to halt North Korea’s…

[ad_1] BERLIN Russia is in favor of an open and rules-based trade order to boost global growth, and sanctions imposed against Moscow are a “covert form” of protectionism, President Vladimir Putin was quoted as saying…

[ad_1] By Rodi Said and Dominic Evans | QAMISHLI, Syria/ANKARA QAMISHLI, Syria/ANKARA The head of the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia said on Wednesday that Turkish military deployments near Kurdish-held areas of northwestern Syria amounted to…

[ad_1] By Diego Oré and Silene Ramírez | CARACAS CARACAS The Venezuelan police officer who staged a helicopter attack on government buildings in Caracas last week appeared in an internet video on Wednesday vowing to…

[ad_1] ANKARA Turkish military preparations in northwest Syria are legitimate measures against a threat from Kurdish forces in the Afrin region, and Turkey will retaliate against any hostile move, Deputy Prime Minister Numan Kurtulmus told…

[ad_1] BERLIN Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying that Germany was “committing suicide” by not letting him speak to Turks in Germany during his visit to the country for a G20 leaders summit,…