International

Turkey has launched a long-planned military operation in northeastern Syria, targeting the Syrian Kurdish fighters that helped the United States defeat ISIS. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced via Twitter on Wednesday that the incursion […]

North Korea has confirmed it test-fired a new type of a ballistic missile, a significant escalation from the short-range tests it has conducted since May. The missile – which was able to carry a nuclear […]

Home Secretary Priti Patel has said Islamic State bride Shamima Begum will never be allowed to return to the UK. Begum, who fled to join the terror group with two school friends in 2015, has […]

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin on Wednesday tapped Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of the right-wing Likud party to form a new government after receiving the final results of last week’s deadlocked election. “The people of Israel […]

The World Health organization says Tanzania is not sharing information about suspected cases of Ebola “despite several requests.” The UN health body said Saturday that the African country had not given WHO access to clinical […]

In China’s northwest, the government is stripping the most overt expressions of the Islamic faith from a pcturesque valley where most residents are devout Muslims. Authorities have destroyed domes and minarets on mosques, including one […]

The son of Osama bin Laden has been killed in a US counter-terrorism operation, President Donald Trump has confirmed. A statement from the White House said: “Hamza bin Laden, the high-ranking al Qaeda member and […]

New Zealand’s Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern introduced a new bill to parliament on Friday that aims to further tighten gun laws, as the country marks six months since the mass shooting in Christchurch that killed […]

Hong Kong activists paused their protests Wednesday in remembrance of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Reuters reported. “In solidarity against terrorism, all forms of protest in Hong Kong will be suspended on Sept. 11, apart […]

After the evangelical mayor of Rio de Janeiro ordered the banning of a comic book because it depicted a same-sex kiss, the country’s largest newspaper printed the couple’s lip lock on its front page. Last […]