The Yemeni foreign minister said Thursday that the legitimate leadership of Yemen seeks a peaceful national dialogue after settlement of the situation in the conflict-stricken country, Egyptian official news agency reported.
Nigerian troops operating in restive northeastern states are flushing out Boko Haram terrorists in the region, the military said on Sunday.
The British pound Tuesday hit 1.40 pounds against 1 euro mark for the first time since December 2007, as the European Central Bank (ECB) began its quantitative easing policy on Monday.
As terrorist attacks are proliferating around the world, all countries need to cooperate, rather than show prejudice, in a bid to squeeze the breeding ground for terrorism.
From nine o'clock in the evening, NDTV, one of India's largest television channel, stopped broadcasting news and put only one photo with an oil lamp, in memory of the victims of rapes which are taking place every 20 minutes in the country.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday echoed his Wednesday's call for Muslim communities around the world to resist the notion that the West was at war with Islam in his final speech at the White House Summit on Countering Violent Extremism.
The U.S. initiated summit on the fight against "violent extremism" is set to take place in Washingto on Feb. 18, in the wake of a series of terrorist acttacks from the Middle East to Europe, with the latest shootings killing two in Denmark.
The killing of two Japanese hostages taken by the Islamic State (IS) has outraged people around the world, especially in their homeland, with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe vowing to "make the terrorists pay the price."
The UN Security Council on Thursday condemned "in the strongest terms" the continued escalation of Boko Haram terrorist attacks, including the one against the Chadian army contingent sent to fight the group alongside border between Cameroon and Nigeria.
The Syrian air force carried out as many as 40 airstrikes against the rebels' positions in the eastern countryside of the capital Damascus on Thursday, reportedly killing 35 people, according to a monitoring group.
The Syrian army killed as many as 66 rebels in several Syrian areas on Tuesday, the state news agency SANA reported.
The espionage charges against Russian citizens demonstrated another round of anti-Moscow campaign by the United States, Russian Foreign Ministry said Tuesday.
Thousands of people rallied in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Sunday against a French magazine for publishing caricatures of Prophet Muhammad and urged the United Nations to declare blasphemy as a crime.
Former Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was impeached by the National Legislative Assembly (NLA) on Friday for dereliction of duty in a controversial rice subsidy scheme.
U.S. President Barack Obama is expected to address the rising threat of global terrorism at Tuesday's annual State of the Union address, just weeks after the bloody massacres in Paris that shocked France and nations worldwide.
Dozens of Palestinians belonging to a radical Salafi group demonstrated in Gaza on Monday against the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo cartoons satirical of Prophet Muhammad of Islam.
French prosecutors on Monday launched investigations on French controversial comedian Dieudonne for "inciting terrorism" after he posted a Facebook comment that could be interpreted as a sympathising message to one of last week' s shooters in Paris.
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