Russia-backed armed groups in eastern Ukraine are torturing and ill-treating people in custody, Human Rights Watch said today...

Egypt involved the UN Security Council in the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) dispute last month after negotiations between Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia failed, Sameh Shoukry, Egyptian minister of foreign affairs, has said...

Lebanon is suffering from an acute shortage of imported drugs, particularly for chronic diseases, amid a lack of foreign exchange in the country, Lebanese pharmaceutical importers warned on Sunday...

At least 50 people were killed when a Philippine Air Force plane carrying 96 people crashed in the country's south on Sunday, said a military official...

A missile attack targeting an army camp in Yemen’s southern Abyan province killed two soldiers and injured 20 others on Sunday, a government source told Anadolu Agency...

A huge explosion has ripped through an oil and gas field off the coast of Azerbaijan amid fears a rig or tanker has been destroyed...

Americans in Washington, D.C., New York City and in cities across the nation took to the streets and looked to the skies Sunday night to watch fireworks explode in celebration of a Fourth of July that sees the United States emerging from the coronavi...

There is great symbolism in the Ministers of the Global Coalition to Defeat Daesh meeting in Rome this week, reconvening in person after two years...

The pandemic and the country’s new technocratic government has only emboldened far-right forces in the pandemic hit nation...

The issue of PM-designate Saad Hariri’s resignation is not pressing anymore and Hariri will return to Beirut within 48 hours, sources close to him have said...

At least seven people were killed and 11 others injured in attacks on power plants in recent days, the Iraqi government said on Friday...

A convicted killer who used a narwhal tusk to help bring down the London Bridge terrorist could be set for an early release from prison...

The death toll from a collapsed seaside condo in South Florida rose to 24 Saturday as officials sped up the demolition of the remaining portion of building with the approach of Tropical Storm Elsa...

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani warned Saturday that a "fifth wave" of COVID-19 could sweep through the country as the Delta variant spreads and urged strict adherence to pandemic protocols...

Former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert called for the Netanyahu family to undergo psychiatric testing in a defense letter that he filed on Sunday after Opposition Leader Benjamin Netanyahu sued him for defamation...

Turkey has administered over 52.34 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines since it launched a mass vaccination campaign in January, according to official figures released on Saturday...

Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi has inaugurated a strategic naval base on the Mediterranean Sea, in a move to "secure shipping lines" across the eastern border with Libya...

Thousands have taken to the streets in cities across Brazil, demanding President Jair Bolsonaro be impeached over his handling of the COVID-19 pandemic, which has killed over half a million people in the country...

President Joe Biden has been slammed as 'weak against Putin' for his allegedly slow response to a global cyberattack that has affected at least 1,000 companies in the United States, and has been linked to Russian hackers...

The last regular British troops are expected to leave Afghanistan today, ending a 20-year involvement in the country...