The US prepared Friday to fly home a cameraman who contracted Ebola in Liberia, as the head of the UN's response agency headed to Sierra Leone to lead the fight against an epidemic he called the world's "highest priority".
Fighting between militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) group and Sunni militias is raging in the west of Iraq's Anbar province, with a fierce battle taking place for control of the town of Heet.
even Libyan soldiers were killed and 50 wounded in a double suicide bombing and clashes in the eastern city of Benghazi on Thursday, an army commander said.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel stressed that Russia had a duty to temper pro-Russian separatists in neighboring Ukraine
The chairman of Majlis (parliament) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission discussed the latest regional and international developments with his Ecuadorian counterpart.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Thursday strongly condemned deadly twin bombings that rocked Syria’s central city of Homs, killing at least 45 people, most of them children
The Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar has claimed victory in Afghan war through his message issued on the occasion of Eid al-Adha.
Boko Haram leader Abubakar Shekau dismissed Nigerian military claims of his death in a new video obtained by AFP on Thursday and said the militants had implemented strict Islamic law in captured towns.
On Wednesday the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed that it had opened its first diplomatic consulate in Istanbul.
Fighting continues to rage over the Kurdish border town of Ayn al-Arab in northern Syria today, with ISIS continuing its advance and engaging in close-quarters combat with Kurdish militias.