A senior U.N. humanitarian official reported on Tuesday that the number of people in need of humanitarian assistance as a result of the ongoing conflict in Syria now swelled to 8.3 million, representing about 38 per cent of the country's population.
According to Panos Moumtzis, Regional Coordinator...
Seven Egyptian security personnel, who were abducted in the restive Sinai peninsula last week, have been released unharmed by their captors, it was announced early on Wednesday.
Egyptian military spokesman Col. Ahmed Mohammed Ali confirmed the release in a statement posted on the Army's official Facebook...
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel held talks with visiting Russian National Security Council chief Nikolai Patrushev at the Pentagon on Tuesday, with their discussion focusing on bilateral and international issues, a Defense Department press release said.
"Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel met with...
Afghan interpreters who risked their lives by working for the British forces are to be offered the chance of settling in Britain after the foreign coalition forces leave the war-torn country by the end of 2014 as planned, media reports citing unnamed sources said on Tuesday.
According to the reports,...
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Tuesday voiced his sadness at news about the deaths and destruction in the suburbs of Oklahoma City as a result of Monday's tornado, and offered the world body's assistance to the U.S. state in the ongoing search and relief efforts.
"The Secretary-General was...
The European Union will provide about EUR37 million for its Regional Maritime Security program (MASE) for strengthening the fight against piracy in several Eastern and Southern African countries, it was announced on Tuesday.
In the past decade, the level of maritime insecurity in the waters of Eastern...
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in Afghanistan on Tuesday downplayed media reports suggesting that hundreds of Taliban fighters were involved in a major two-day militant offensive in the south of the war-torn Asian nation.
"The International Security Assistance Force is...
UNICEF and its partners are set to begin an emergency measles vaccination campaign in the Central African Republic (CAR) on Wednesday, with the intention of reaching some 125,000 children in the impoverished African nation.
The five-day campaign will be in the conflict-hit Bangui, the country's capital,...
U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel hosted visiting Australian Defense Minister Stephen Smith for a working lunch at the Pentagon on Tuesday afternoon.
Summarizing the meeting, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said in a statement that the two leaders discussed the progress and cooperation between...
European Union Foreign Affairs Chief Catherine Ashton has appointed Bulgarian diplomat Nataliya Apostolova as the new head of EU Delegation to Libya, it was announced on Tuesday.
Apostolova is currently the EU's deputy head of delegation to Egypt and has previously worked in the European Commission's...
The U.S. State Department on Tuesday announced the dedication of a new "environmentally-sustainable" Embassy in Burundi's capital Bujumbura.
"In an important symbol of America's commitment to an enduring friendship with the Republic of Burundi, U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Burundi, Dawn M. Liberi,...
The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) has joined Afghan President Hamid Karzai in condemning Monday's deadly suicide bombing that killed at least ten people, including a key anti-Taliban figure, in the northern Baghlan province.
Haji Rasool Khan Mohseni, head of the provincial...
A powerful roadside bomb explosion has left at least seven policemen dead in western Afghanistan, media reports citing local officials said on Tuesday.
Officials said the explosion struck the vehicle carrying the policemen while traveling through the Chashti Shareef district of the western Herat province....
Guatemala's Constitutional Court on Monday overturned the genocide conviction of former dictator Efrain Rios Montt, and ordered that the trial must restart from the point where two of the country's judges disputed last month over who should hear the case.
In its ruling, the Constitutional Court threw...
Russia's National Anti-Terrorism Committee said on Monday that security forces had foiled a plot to launch terror attacks in Moscow by striking at a three-member group engaged in planning the attacks.
The Committee said in a statement that two of the plotters were killed in a raid carried out by its...