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Talks with Indonesia come after the U.S. agreed with China to boost joint efforts to fight global warming...

A second round of peace talks between Syria's warring sides broke off without making any progress...

ICRC President Peter Maurer voiced concerns over the situation in besieged Homs...

During the attacks, 16 other militants were killed and 17 arrested while seven houses used by militants to stock weapons were demolished...

Turkey’s government is grappling with a high-level corruption scandal that has ensnared top allies of Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

Security forces are frequently targeted with bombings and shootings by militants opposed to the government...

This move has prompted an outburst of nationalist sentiments among the country’s predominantly Orthodox Christian population...

An emboldened President Bashar al-Assad has missed two deadlines to turn over his deadliest chemical weapons...

The Hezbollah-led March 8 coalition and the Future Movement held late-night talks over the disputed interior ministry portfolio...

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Jordan is one of the largest recipients of U.S. aid, collecting about $1bn annually for the past five years...

U.S. Under-Secretary of State Wendy Sherman told Al Arabiya News Channel the Syrian regime needs to take the negotiations more “seriously”...

Thousands of Muslims who tried to flee the violence in Central African Republic’s capital were turned back by peacekeepers ...

The violence erupted after weekly Muslim prayers with supporters of the Islamist leader clashing with police...

The 33-year-old, who lives in Italy, was taken off the train for holding a plastic bottle wrapped in aluminium foil and plaster...

Al-Qaeda received help from inside the prison to facilitate the escape of 29 inmates...

At least 32 people, including a child and 10 rebel fighters, were killed when the car blew up in front of the mosque...

An Israeli army spokeswoman confirmed the shooting but did not say if anyone was injured...

The 1,200 protesters affiliated with Jordan’s Muslim Brotherhood have burned the Israeli flag...

A total of 381 male evacuees from the opposition-held Old City district of Homs were still being held in a school building ...