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There is widespread speculation that a senior North Korean official who made a surprise day-long visit to Beijing was Supreme ...

Clashes erupted overnight in a rebel-held enclave outside Damascus, which was also hit by government air strikes despite a truce ...

Stabbings and clashes that left six people dead raised fears on Saturday of further Israeli-Palestinian violence as tensions mount over ...

A Palestinian broke into a home in a Jewish settlement in the occupied West Bank on Friday and stabbed four ...

Four of Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte's bodyguards were shot and wounded on Wednesday by suspected communist rebels a day after ...

A Vietnamese sailor being held hostage by Islamist gunmen in the southern Philippines was killed during a gunbattle between the ...

The Iraqi military's hard-fought victory over the Islamic State group in Mosul marks a defining moment not just for them. ...

NATO will increase troop numbers in Afghanistan to help train local forces facing a resurgent Taliban but will not return ...

A North Korean soldier escaped to South Korea Tuesday evening by walking across the Demilitarised Zone that bisects the peninsula, ...

A North Korean soldier escaped to South Korea Tuesday evening by walking across the Demilitarised Zone that bisects the peninsula, ...

Around 200,000 people have fled the Islamic State stronghold of Raqa, a US military official said, as US-backed Syrian forces ...

Flying objects that prompted South Korean forces to fire warning shots this week appeared to be balloons carrying propaganda leaflets ...

South Korean President Moon Jae-In on Sunday announced his picks for finance and foreign ministers while appointing a former diplomat ...

The United Nations on Monday welcomed the release of 82 Nigerian schoolgirls after years of Boko Haram captivity and appealed ...

Nine Chadian soldiers were killed in a Boko Haram attack on an army post in the Lake Chad region on ...

More than 100 Afghan soldiers were killed and wounded in a coordinated Taliban attack on an army base in northern ...

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said during a visit to Israel Friday that there can be "no doubt" that Syria has ...

A two-day-old baby boy cries as his parents take seats in a Cameroonian military truck in the border town of ...

A Saudi military helicopter that crashed in Yemen killing 12 Saudi soldiers was likely hit by "friendly fire", military sources ...

Six months since Iraqi forces launched a vast operation to oust the Islamic State group from second city Mosul, they ...