Syria's new leaders have reportedly given high-ranking military posts to several foreign Islamist fighters. It is raising ...

U.S. lawmakers are poised to introduce a bill prohibiting the recognition of a Georgian Dream government less than two weeks after the party's Russia-friendly billionaire founder was sanctioned for ...

Iran executed at least 901 people in 2024 – including 31 women, some of whom were convicted of killing their husbands while ...

Thousands of protesters have blocked a key highway in northern Pakistan over power outages. Residents in the city of Ali Abad in Pakistan's Gilgit-Baltistan region say they've faced outages of up to ...

Pakistani security forces suffered the deadliest year in almost a decade. The trend has worried residents, who say the state ...

Journalist Cecilia Sala, who was held by Tehran police for almost three weeks for her "journalistic activities," has been released and is headed home.

Finland says an alleged Russian “shadow fleet” tanker detained over the damaging of Baltic Sea cables has "serious deficiencies," putting it under detention amid reports NATO is due to begin ...

Ukraine says it hit an oil depot inside Russia that served a strategic air base in the southern Saratov region in what appears to have been a strike with Ukrainian weapons.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has said again that he is eager to see negotiations with Russia on ending the war in Ukraine begin soon after he returns to the White House but gave no specifics on ...

The United States on January 7 announced sanctions on a senior Hungarian official who has a critical role in Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s government for his alleged involvement in corruption.

Ukraine has launched a new offensive in Russia's Kursk region. Reporting from the ground is patchy and often contradictory, but one Russian village has emerged as a key focus of the fighting.

Finnish police say an anchor has been recovered from the bottom of the Baltic Sea as part of an investigation into an incident last week in which undersea power and telecommunications cables were ...