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September 30, 2016

Islamic State suspect extradited to Germany from France

A suspected member of the Islamic State group who turned himself in to French authorities and revealed plans of an attack ...

September 30, 2016

Dueling truths follow Indian raid in Pakistani Kashmir

In New Delhi, they say that highly trained Indian soldiers slipped across the de facto border and into Pakistani-controlled ...

September 30, 2016

Austrian police investigating terrorist suspect

Austrian police are interrogating a man on suspicion of belonging to a terrorist group after he allegedly tried to run down ...

September 30, 2016

Spain's Socialists line up for crucial leadership battle

A growing leadership battle within Spain's main opposition Socialist party could tear the 137-year-old organization apart and ...

September 30, 2016

The Latest: UN urges 48-hour humanitarian pauses in Aleppo

The Latest on Syria (all times local): 10:15 p.m. The United Nations is again calling for weekly 48-hour humanitarian pauses ...

September 30, 2016

1 killed, 2 wounded in bomb attack in southeast Turkey

Turkey's state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have detonated a roadside bomb in southeastern Turkey as a military ...

September 30, 2016

Opposition leader: Turkey is misusing its emergency powers

Turkey's opposition leader accused the government on Friday of using emergency powers from the aftermath of a failed coup to ...

September 30, 2016

Russia fighting in Syria for a year, still at odds with US

A year after Russia waded into the war in Syria, aiming to flex its national security muscles and prop up beleaguered Syrian ...

September 30, 2016

French military bolsters Iraq presence for Mosul offensive

French warplanes are flying over Iraq after the Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier rejoined the U.S.-led fight against ...

September 30, 2016

Pope in Georgia: Vaguely Russia rebuke, warm Georgia welcome

Pope Francis issued a vague rebuke to Russia on Friday and received an unexpectedly warm welcome from the leader of the ...

September 30, 2016

Syrian monitor: Russian airstrikes killed 9,300 in past year

A year of Russian airstrikes on areas outside government control in Syria have killed more than 9,000 people, displaced tens ...

September 30, 2016

Amnesty: Hundreds trapped in Libya's Benghazi amid fighting

An international rights group expressed alarm Friday over the fate of hundreds of Libyan and foreign nationals trapped for ...

September 29, 2016

UN impotent before Syria war crimes

Russia and Syria faced a growing chorus of international condemnation over their actions in Aleppo, but U.N.

September 29, 2016

Car bomb explodes near home of Egyptian judicial official

An Egyptian security official says a car bomb exploded near the home of a senior assistant to the country's prosecutor ...

September 29, 2016

UN rights council seeks greater monitoring of Yemen abuses

The United Nations Human Rights Council has passed a resolution calling for greater U.N. monitoring of rights abuses in ...

September 29, 2016

UN in Afghanistan says 15 civilians killed in US air strike

The United Nations in Afghanistan said on Thursday that an airstrike in the eastern province of Nangarhar near the Pakistan ...

September 29, 2016

A look at some of Israel's prime ministers

Shimon Peres, who died Wednesday, was both a former president and prime minister, the only person in Israel to hold both jobs

September 29, 2016

Bosnian war crimes suspect arrested in Switzerland

Bosnia's state prosecution office says Swiss authorities have arrested a Muslim Bosniak woman suspected of having brutally ...

September 29, 2016

Serbia arrests senior Kosovo policeman

Serbian police have arrested a senior Kosovo police official on suspicion of terrorism in a sign of ongoing tensions in the ...