Israel and Hamas have agreed a long-term ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. The truce, ending seven weeks of fighting that…
France’s President Francois Hollande has named a new cabinet under Prime Minister Manuel Valls, dropping ministers who rebelled against austerity…
President Barack Obama has authorized surveillance flights over Syria in order to gain intelligence on the activities of Islamic State…
Russia has admitted for the first time that ten Russian soldiers captured in eastern Ukraine had crossed the border "by…
Two police officers were injured and three men were stabbed in a series of violent clashes at the end of…
The family of James Foley - the kidnapped American journalist killed by Islamic State militants last week - has posted…
Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko has dissolved parliament and called snap elections for October 26, as government forces continue to fight…
Liberian doctor Abraham Borbor has died despite taking experimental anti-Ebola drug ZMapp, Liberia's information minister says. Abraham Borbor was one…
Hundreds of mourners gathered in Ferguson, Missouri to attend the funeral of Michael Brown, the black teenager who was shot…
Terrorist group Boko Haram has said it has set up an Islamic state in the towns and villages it has…