. . OLONGAPO – A Philippine court on Tuesday convicted a U.S. Marine of killing a Filipino last year after he discovered she was a transgender...
. . YANGON –Â The United Nations has reported that Myanmar’s military released 53 children and young people from service on Monday as part of an...
. . FRANKFURTÂ – Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany could send 1,200 soldiers to the Middle East by the end of the year to support a...
. . ANKARA – Turkey’s Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has informed the Russian Ambassador to Turkey that the body of the pilot killed when the Turkish...
. . MOSCOW –Â Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent an advanced missile system to Syria on Wednesday to protect its jets operating there and pledged...
. . RAQQA – An Austrian teenager who fled to Raqqa, Syria in order to join the Islamic fundamentalist terror organization Islamic State was beaten to...
. . PHNOM PENH – Cambodia’s Prime Minister Hun Sen asked his Russian counterpart on Tuesday to write off debts amounting US$1.5 billion that Cambodia had...
. . ISTANBUL – The Turkish Military has shot down a Russian warplane near the Syrian border, saying it violated Turkish airspace, a long-feared escalation that...
. . MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has offered a $50 million bounty for anyone who can find those responsible for blowing up a Russian...
. Chinese vessel rams Vietnamese ship in disputed water in South China Sea . KUALA LUMPUR – China’s Deputy Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin on Sunday told...
.j . NEW YORK – The United Nations Security Council has said all able states should join the fight against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq...
. . MALIA – Muslim militants shouting in Islamic “Allahu akbar” attacked the Radisson Blu hotel in Bamako on Friday, spraying bullets on tables of people...
. SINGAPORE – Senior Singapore diplomat Ong Keng Yong said yesterday that China’s image has taken a knock in recent years due to its strident and...
, . PARIS – Abdelhamid Abaaoud the Belgian jihadist suspected of plotting deadly attacks in Paris has been killed in a police raid on a suburban apartment...
. . YOLA – A new report says Nigeria’s Boko Haram Islamic insurgents have become the world’s deadliest extremist group, edging out the Islamic State group...
. . SYRIA – In the wake of Friday’s deadly terror attack in Paris and the confirmed bombing of a Russian airliner, Russia and France are...
. . PARIS – An early morning police raid on an apartment in the town of Saint-Denis to the north of Paris has ended with two...
. . PARIS – French and Belgian investigators probing the deadly Paris attacks have so far identified five of seven gunmen and suicide bombers whose bodies...
. . MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed to hunt down those responsible for blowing up a Russian airliner over Egypt and intensify air strikes...
PARIS – Hours after the synchronized attacks that terrorized Paris, French police questioned and released the suspect who is now the focus of an international manhunt,...