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Nouakchott: Thousands of people gathered Tuesday in the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott to demand the execution of a blogger convicted of apostasy as the...

NEW DELHI: Senior Kerala MP, E. Ahamed, on Tuesday suffered a heart attack and collapsed in Parliament's Central Hall. His condition is extremely...

Geneva: The UN said Tuesday it had resumed air drops of desperately-needed aid to Deir Ezzor in Syria after halting the deliveries over...

BEIRUT: The next phase of a U.S.-backed campaign against Islamic State in Syria aims to completely encircle its stronghold of Raqqa, severing the...

LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan: Afghan forces said they were holding off a Taliban offensive in Helmand province on Tuesday, as reinforcements and air support...

MOSUL: When Islamic State militants swept into Mosul in 2014, they wandered into Manaf Younes' billiards hall and declared it un-Islamic, taking away...

LJUBLJANA: The Slovenian tourism industry has been boosted by the fact that it is the home country of new United States First Lady...

Baghdad: An Iraqi lawmaker who has campaigned prominently for fellow Yazidi women enslaved by the Islamic State group said Tuesday that new US...

Tehran: French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault voiced concern over a weekend ballistic missile test by Iran at a joint press conference with his...

Ankara: Turkey tourism revenues fell almost 30 percent in 2016, the country's statistics office said Tuesday, after visitors stayed away following multiple terror...

ANKARA: At least 30 Islamic State terrorists were neutralized in northern Syria in the last 24 hours as part of the ongoing Operation...

TRENTON, Ont: Hundreds demonstrators gather at the U.S. consulate in Toronto and other Canadian cities Monday to protest opposition to an American travel...

LAGOS, Nigeria: Nigeria police have arrested 10 people for allegedly publishing and circulating a secessionist tabloid Biafra Times. Biafra refers to the secessionist...

IDLIB, Syria: At least three civilians were killed Monday when Syrian regime warplanes carried out an airstrike in the northwestern city of Idlib,...

WASHINGTON: U.S. President Donald Trump's order to restrict immigration from seven Muslim-majority countries is "absolutely" a ban on Muslims entering the U.S., the...

New Delhi: India's government acknowledged Tuesday that its controversial decision to withdraw high-value bank notes from circulation has had an "adverse impact" on...

YANGON, Myanmar: The United Nations said Monday that at least 92,000 people have been displaced in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state due to military...

PARIS: French citizens with dual nationality for one of the seven Muslim-majority countries affected by new U.S. entry restrictions have been told not...