BAGHDAD, IRAQ, Salam Faraj- Gunmen kidnapped at least 26 Qatari hunters in southern Iraq, officials said on Wednesday, the second high-profile abduction of foreigners in the country in three months....
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, Dave Clark- The United States and Russia agreed to plough on with efforts to halt Syria's brutal civil war, with a fresh round of international crisis talks set for this week in New...
WASHINGTON, UNITED STATES- America is coming up far short in its efforts to counter Islamic State propaganda, and the jihadists' messages often resonate with younger people, the US military's top...
MOSCOW, RUSSIA, Dave Clark- US Secretary of State John Kerry flew in to Moscow on Tuesday to meet Russia's President Vladimir Putin and urge him to keep the fledgling Syrian peace process on track....
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, Taieb Mahjoub- Yemeni government and rebel representatives meet in Switzerland Tuesday for UN-brokered peace talks, likely to be accompanied by a ceasefire, aimed at...
MOSCOW, RUSSIA- A Russian destroyer in the Aegean Sea on Sunday opened fire to avoid a collision with a Turkish fishing boat, the defence ministry said, as a bitter dispute over the shooting down of...
BEIRUT, LEBANON, Rouba El Husseini- Syria's Al-Qaeda affiliate rejected Saturday the outcome of an opposition summit that agreed to negotiate with President Bashar al-Assad, and Russia denounced the...
PARIS, FRANCE, Dave Clark- US Secretary of State John Kerry will head to Moscow on Tuesday on a delicate diplomatic mission to try to keep the fragile Syrian peace process on track. In a sign of the...
BEIRUT, LEBANON- Hannibal Kadhafi, the high-living businessman son of the late Libyan dictator, was freed late Friday, several hours after he was kidnapped in Lebanon by an unknown armed group,...
RIYADH, SAUDI ARABIA, Ian Timberlake- Saudi Arabia holds its first ever election open to female voters and candidates on Saturday, in a tentative step towards easing restrictions that are among the...