The number of Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone, has reached 2,240 and a total of 1,229 deaths were also registered, UN spokesman Steaphane Dujarric told reporters here Tuesday, quoting information from the World...

U.S. air power helped Kurdish fighters retake a major Iraqi dam from terrorists over the weekend, but the Islamic radicals are still a formidable force in the embattled nation, and the United States may well stay in...

The Japanese Public Security Intelligence Agency has made public the 2014 its report on terrorism ( Kokusai Terrorismu Youran 2014) published under the supervision of the Ministry of justice.

Members of the United Nations Security Council have unanimously adopted a resolution calling on all parties to cooperate with an international investigation into the shooting down of a Malaysian passenger jet over eastern Ukraine.

The Ethiopian government said Tuesday it will eliminate child marriage and female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2025. Ethiopian Deputy Prime Minister Demeke Mekonnen announced a package of action at a global summit in London, hosted jointly by...

The Israeli military has focused its shelling on a neighborhood of Gaza City. That has sparked the fiercest battle since Israel’s latest attack on the Gaza Strip began earlier this month. The number of dead is surging...

The world’s top diplomats are increasing efforts to stop fighting between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas, but their efforts have so far been fruitless.

Spain’s King Felipe VI bid farewell Tuesday to Moroccan monarch Mohammed VI after a two-day visit to the North African nation, while expressing gratitude for all the hospitality: “Really, it was a very, very good trip.”

The swearing-in ceremony of President Bashar al-Assad was held Wednesday and followed by an inauguration speech, in which Assad outlined the features of his third seven-year-term in office, basically continuing to fight terrorism, support national reconciliation and...

An Egyptian court sentenced on Wednesday five men to life in prison for sexually harassing and attacking women during Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s inauguration celebrations held at Tahrir Square, the official news agency MENA reported.