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JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The scene had echoes of the Paris attacks: A bustling shopping area shaken by the blasts of suicide bombers and gunfire as o...

ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkish police have arrested one person suspected of a direct link to the deadly suicide bombing that killed 10 Germans in Istanbul's ...

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide attack on a polio vaccination center in southwestern Pakistan on Wednesday killed 15 people, mainly policemen gather...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Aid convoys delivered long-awaited food, medicine and other supplies to three besieged communities Monday, part of a U.N.-suppo...

TRIPOLI, Libya (AP) — A massive truck bomb exploded near a police base in the western Libyan town of Zliten on Thursday, killing at least 60 policemen...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iraq on Wednesday offered to mediate between Saudi Arabia and Iran after tensions soared following the kingdom's execution of a Sh...

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A university where Islamic extremists killed 148 people nine months ago reopened on Monday, an event welcomed by many Kenyans as...

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — The latest developments after Saudi Arabia executes a prominent opposition Shiite cleric convicted of terrorism charges, s...

PATHANKOT, India (AP) — Indian troops were still battling at least two gunmen Sunday night at an air force base near the border with Pakistan, more th...

PARIS (AP) — In Bangkok, police-flanked partygoers rang in the new year at the site of a deadly bombing that took place just months ago. In Paris, res...

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — With less than 48 hours left in 2015, Turkey on Wednesday became the latest country to announce the foiling of a holiday attack ...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — A suicide bomber blew himself up outside a government office in a northwestern Pakistani city on Tuesday, killing at least 2...

BAGHDAD (AP) — A triumphant Iraqi prime minister on Tuesday toured the western city of Ramadi, just a day after government troops routed Islamic State...

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Islamic extremist in Mali's north have killed at least 15 people in two attacks in the Kidal region near the border with Algeria, ...

BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces booby trapped a cluster of farm buildings in the southern Daraa province and detonated the explosives as severa...

BEIRUT (AP) — A U.S.-backed coalition of rebels in Syria — including Syrian Kurdish, Arab and Christian groups — captured several areas in the country...

BEIRUT (AP) — The three missiles fired on a public market in the northern Syrian town of Ariha took the morning shoppers by surprise. In a few moments...

BEIRUT (AP) — A Lebanese man convicted of one of the most notorious attacks in Israel's history and who spent nearly three decades in an Israeli priso...

WASHINGTON (AP) — One nation, two wars, a quarter-million lives lost, millions forced from their homes, and still no end in sight for the pitiless, se...

DALLAS (AP) — They are known as "Three Percenters," followers of a movement that has rallied against gun control efforts nationwide, patrolled the U.S...