The Nigerian Army has confirmed the killing of two Boko Haram insurgents and the rescue of 16 families in Madagali area of northeast Adamawa State.
The United States is prepared to resume de-confliction talks with Russia on military operations in Syria, the State Department said Tuesday.
The Islamist movement of Hamas condemned the United State for blacklisting of its members as international terrorists, a Hamas official said on Tuesday.
Russia's Foreign Ministry on Saturday shunned concerns of the United States about an alleged Russian military build-up in Syria, which U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said could lead to escalation of conflict in the war-torn country.
A video circulated on social media website on Wednesday, purportedly released by Sinai State militant group in Egypt, threatened that the group will kill the kidnapped Croatian citizen if the Egyptian government does not release jailed Muslim women within 48 hours.
At least 15 people were killed after a female suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device at a market in Damaturu city of Nigeria's northeastern Yobe State on Sunday, local police said.
At least 12 people were killed when Boko Haram fighters stormed a local community in Nigeria's northeastern state of Borno late Tuesday, witnesses told Xinhua Wednesday.
The State Council, China's cabinet, said on Wednesday that the country has the confidence and condition to realize its major economic and social development targets this year.
High-profile businesswoman Li Xiaolin has been appointed vice-general manager of China Datang Corp, one of the country's Big Five power companies.
As many as 140 Islamic State (IS) militants were killed Tuesday by Syrian airstrikes in the northern province of Raqqa, the de facto capital of IS, according to the state news agency SANA.
The Air France flight which was escorted to New York's JFK airport Monday by U.S. Air Force fighter planes has been cleared of threat, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will remain in a Swiss hospital overnight and return to the U.S. on Monday after breaking his leg in a cycling accident, the State Department said.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Russia's Black Sea resort of Sochi for a meeting with President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine on Tuesday, the State Department said Monday.
The Islamic State terrorist group on Tuesday claimed responsibility for the attack on a controversial cartoon contest that left two gunmen dead in northern U.S. state of Texas Sunday night.
BEIJING, May 4 (Xinhua) -- China's State Council on Monday appointed Lo Wai Chung as police chief of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR).
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez held closed-door talks here Thursday evening, in the highest-level meeting between Washington and Havana since they broke off diplomatic relations in 1961.
U.S. House Speaker John Boehner on Tuesday urged former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to turn over her personal email server to a neutral third party and let it decide what should be released to the public.
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