Khamenei tells Iran’s Guards to develop advanced, modern weapons
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei told Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards on Sunday to develop more advanced and modern weapons, amid increasingly tense disputes with the...
Israel asks Putin to pardon U.S.-Israeli jailed for Moscow airport transit drugs
Israel asked Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday to pardon a U.S.-Israeli woman given a 7.5-year jail sentence for drugs found in her luggage as...
Congo to start using Johnson & Johnson Ebola vaccine in November
Health authorities in Democratic Republic of Congo will introduce a Johnson & Johnson Ebola vaccine in November in the country’s eastern provinces, to counter the...
U.S. says reports of killing of Kurdish politician in northeast Syria ‘extremely troubling’
The United States is looking into reports that a Kurdish politician and captured Kurdish fighters were killed in northeastern Syria amid Turkey’s offensive, a State...
Save the Children concerned by reports IS-linked women, children fled camp
Save the Children said it was deeply concerned by reports hundreds of women and children linked to Islamic State had fled in terror from a...
Erdogan says Turkish-led offensive to extend further along Syrian border
Turkey’s incursion into Syria will stretch from Kobani in the west to Hasaka in the east, going some 30 km (19 miles) into Syrian territory,...
U.S. set to pull remaining troops from north Syria amid Turkish incursion
The United States said on Sunday it is poised to withdraw some 1,000 troops from northern Syria after learning that Turkey planned to extend a...
Japan sends in troops after deadly typhoon floods towns
Japan sent tens of thousands of troops and rescue workers on Sunday to save stranded residents and fight floods caused by one of the worst...
Europe’s climate credentials face acid test in EIB fossil fuel vote
Europe’s climate change credentials face an acid test this week when the bloc’s lending arm, the European Investment Bank, decides whether or not to stop...
Putin says no reliable information about who attacked Saudi oil plants
Russian President Vladimir Putin said before his first visit to Saudi Arabia in more than a decade that Moscow could play a key role in...