Secretary of State John Kerry spoke with Russia Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Friday to express his concern about intensifying violence in eastern Ukraine, State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said. “He also underscored that Russia and the separatists they back must immediately implement their obligations under the September 5th cease-fire …

Dozens of soldiers were killed and more than 70 wounded in car bomb attacks and clashes between troops and Islamists around Benghazi airport, a Libyan army spokesperson said on Friday, as the UN threatened sanctions. “Thirty-six soldiers were killed on Thursday in three car bomb attacks, followed by fighting between …

British Prime Minister David Cameron today became the first world leader to hold talks with newly-inaugurated Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, as Nato troops end their long war against the Taliban. Mr Cameron arrived in Kabul on the unannounced visit after visiting an airbase in Cyprus, where British jets launching strikes …

Twelve militants were killed and 68 others arrested today in raids carried out by the Egyptian army in the country’s four different governorates. The army has launched raids against militants in North Sinai, Ismailia, Port Said and Daqahlia governorates killing 12 militants, including Mohamed Abu Shatiya, a field commander of …

Pro-Russian rebels pressed on Friday to seize a key airport in eastern Ukraine despite fierce resistance by government forces. An AP reporter on Friday saw three rebel tanks firing their cannons at the main terminal of Donetsk airport, where government forces have holed up. Sniper shots rang around the area. …

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon condemned in the strongest terms Wednesday’s bomb attacks in Homs, which initial reports indicate killed 39 people, including 30 schoolchildren between the ages of six and nine. He regarded this as an act of the utmost depravity, a statement released by his press office said.

The Libyan army has declared a halt to military operations “on all fronts,” local media said on Wednesday, two days after rival parliamentarians at a UN-sponsored meeting called for a ceasefire in the troubled country. Military spokesperson Colonel Abu Zaid al-Mismari told the Al-Wasat news site that the army would …

Egypt has offered to train pro-government forces battling rival armed groups in Libya, stepping up efforts to eradicate what it says is a threat to its own stability from the anarchy engulfing its neighbour. The offer was the latest sign of intervention by competing Arab powers in Libya – a …

More than 200 people largely civilians were killed and hundreds others wounded in attacks and conflicts in Afghanistan last month, according to official statistics. On Monday, four security personnel and three civilians were killed and 13 others wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a security checkpoint near Kabul airport.

A total of 1,119 Iraqis were killed, and 1,946 others were injured in terrorist attacks and violence in September in Iraq, according to a statement issued on Wednesday by the UN Assistance Mission for Iraq (UNAMI). The statement said that 854 civilians, including 79 civilian policemen, and 265 Iraqi security …