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Azerbaijan has announced a “unilateral ceasefire” in fighting with Armenian forces over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region.

A defense ministry spokesman said the Azeris were acting in…

As ground forces push west across Iraq in the fight against the self-styled Islamic State terrorist group, civilians are increasingly caught in the crossfire.

Five Turkish soldiers and one special forces police officer have died in a bomb attack in the country’s southeastern Mardin Province, reports say.

Turkey’s Dogan news agency said Kurdish…

Two guards were killed in an attempted attack on an oilfield in eastern Libya by suspected Islamic State militants on Saturday, a guards’ spokesman said. Ali al-Hassi said guards had repelled the…

Support for Britain to leave the European Union stood at 43%, ahead of support to stay within the 28-member bloc, which stood at 39%, according to an online survey taken by pollster Opinium for…

The probability that Republican front-runner Donald Trump will win his party’s presidential nomination dropped sharply in the past week while the likelihood of a brokered convention to potentially…

A new wave of fighting broke out in the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region on Saturday, killing at least a dozen servicemen and drawing international calls for an immediate ceasefire to stop…

Russia’s UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin on Friday sent a letter to the UN Security Council saying three Turkish humanitarian organizations were fronts for the country’s intelligence service to send…

There is growing concern over a lack of preparation for the plan to send migrants back from Greece to Turkey, two days before it goes into effect.

A BBC correspondent, who has been to one…

The US Navy plans to conduct another passage near disputed islands in the South China Sea in early April, a source familiar with the plan said on Friday, the third in series of challenges that…

Surviving Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam chose not to blow himself up to save lives, his brother says. Mohamed Abdeslam was speaking to French BFMTV after meeting Salah in his Belgian prison…

Vietnam’s police chief was elected on Saturday by the National Assembly to become president—the second-highest post—and promised to “resolutely” protect the country’s sovereignty amid an ongoing…

The US administration is considering a plan to greatly increase the number of American special operations forces deployed to Syria, as it looks to accelerate recent gains against the self-styled…

The US military says it has targeted a vehicle carrying three Al-Shabab militants in a drone strike in Somalia. A Pentagon spokesman named the main target as Hassan Ali Dhoore, accused of…

North Korea fired a missile into the sea off its east coast on Friday, the South’s military said, hours after the leaders of South Korea, Japan and the United States warned Pyongyang to end…

The UN has said it will consider lifting sanctions on Libya’s sovereign wealth fund if a UN-backed government can regain control of the country.

The sovereign wealth fund contains an…

Brazil’s Supreme Court ruled on Thursday to take a corruption investigation into former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva away from a crusading federal judge, as pro-government protests across…

Rights group Amnesty International says Turkey has illegally returned thousands of Syrian refugees to their war-torn homeland since mid-January, highlighting what the group says are “fatal flaws”…

Plans to partially reopen Brussels airport on Friday evening have been halted amid a strike by airport police over security concerns.

The Zaventem facility has been closed since a twin…

The death toll in the collapse of a flyover under construction in the Indian city of Kolkata rose to 23 on Friday, after rescuers worked through the night with cranes and jackhammers to clear huge…

A Brussels court has agreed to send Salah Abdeslam, thought to be the sole surviving Paris attacker, to France. Abdeslam, a Molenbeek resident, also appears to have had links to the Brussels…

Ankara has said the woman responsible for a car-bomb attack in the capital city had ties to a Syrian terror organization. The announcement comes as Turkey launches fresh airstrikes against targets…

Long-shot candidate John Kasich has defeated Donald Trump in Ohio’s key presidential primary. Trump’s candidacy faces mounting resistance from moderate Republicans.

Days after protests…

Another group of Russian warplanes has taken off from the Hmeimim airbase in Syria, flying back to their permanent bases in Russia, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Wednesday,…

An army plane with 22 people on board has crashed in Ecuador’s Amazon region. “There are no survivors. Our embrace of solidarity to the families and the armed forces. It is a tragedy,” …