
Afghan forces have arrived at Kunduz airport in preparation for a counter-attack on the embattled city, which was seized by the Taliban on Monday....
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called for a regional co-ordinating structure against Islamic State (IS)....
Catalonia is due to vote in regional elections that nationalist parties hope will set them on the road to independence from Spain....
Saudi Arabia's most senior cleric, the grand mufti, has said the stampede at the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca on Thursday was beyond human contro...
Saudi Arabia's King Salman has ordered a safety review for the Hajj pilgrimage after at least 717 people died in a stampede near the holy city of Mecc...
At least 717 people taking part in the Hajj pilgrimage have been killed in a stampede near the Islamic holy city of Mecca, officials in Saudi Arabia s...
With Western policy on Syria in a state of flux could the timing of Russia's military move into that country be more perfect...
Egypt has evicted and demolished the homes of 3,200 families in the Sinai peninsula in violation of international law, Human Rights Watch says....
Greece's Alexis Tsipras has said his left-wing Syriza party has a clear mandate after winning a second general election in less than nine months....
Voting has begun in Greece's general election, with opinion polls indicating a tight race between the left-wing incumbent Syriza party and the conserv...
The scene is Phnom Penh, on 26 September 2014. Overhead, a chandelier drips with crystals. Champagne glasses clink. It was here that ministers from Au...
Croatia has closed seven of its eight road border crossings with Serbia following a huge influx of migrants....
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has said he is shocked after Hungarian police fired tear gas and water cannon to force migrants back from its borde...
The first group of migrants has reached Serbia's border with Croatia - a new route into the European Union....
North Korea says its main nuclear facility, Yongbyon complex, is now in full operation. The country was improving its nuclear weapons in quality a...
Security forces in Egypt have mistakenly killed 12 people, including Mexican tourists, during an anti-terror operation, the interior ministry says....
Israeli police clashed with Palestinian youths after entering the al-Aqsa mosque complex in East Jerusalem....
Saudi Arabia has begun an investigation into why a crane collapsed in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, killing at least 107 people....
Prominent Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez has been sentenced to 13 years and nine months in prison....
The man Thai police believe masterminded last month's deadly Bangkok bombing fled to Bangladesh the day before the attack and travelled on a Chinese p...
Turkish ground forces have crossed into Iraq in pursuit of Kurdish militants for the first time since a ceasefire two years ago....
The Greek government and the UN refugee agency have brought in extra staff and ships to deal with some 25,000 stranded migrants on the island of Lesbo...
A Palestinian woman has died of injuries she sustained during an arson attack on her home in the West Bank that killed her husband and infant son....
Austria and Germany are expecting thousands more migrants to arrive from Hungary after Budapest eased restrictions on their travel....
Migrants are arriving in Austria after Hungary's surprise move to provide buses for them. For days, Hungary had blocked migrants from travelling by t...
Former Democratic Republic of Congo rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda has told the International Criminal Court that he is not an infamous killer...
The main railway station in the Hungarian capital, Budapest, has opened its doors to hundreds of migrants after a two-day stand-off....
President Xi Jinping will on Thursday preside over an enormous military parade in Beijing in commemoration of China's World War Two victory over Japan...
A satellite image confirms that the main temple in the ancient city of Palmyra in northern Syria has been destroyed, the United Nations says....
The Australian government has said a deal to resettle refugees in Cambodia is on track, despite media reports to the contrary....