Militants dressed in Indian army uniforms killed eight people in attacks on an Indian police station and army base near the Pakistan border on Thursday, triggering calls to cancel talks between the rival nations’ leaders at the weekend. The group of about three militants killed six people in the attack on the …

Russia insists that all chemical weapons in Syria, including chemical arms components possibly held by Syrian opposition forces, should be destroyed, the Russian Foreign Minister said. Speaking after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in New York, Sergei Lavrov said “both

Palestinian ambassador in Cairo, Barakat Al-Farra, said on Wednesday that the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza will be opened for three days starting Saturday. Al-Farra, who has been recently engaged in negotiations with Egyptian authorities over the crossing, stressed that “only students, and

Kenya’s president said on Tuesday that his forces had “defeated” Islamists from Somalia’s Al Shabaab, had shot five of them dead and detained 11 others suspected of killing 67 people after storming a Nairobi shopping mall. It remained unclear after Uhuru Kenyatta addressed the nation on television whether the four-day …

Thousands of people in Libya remain locked up in militia prisons, outside of state control, more than two years after the revolution, according to a new UN report presented to the Security Council. The report says many are suffering torture and mistreatment and calls the situation “unacceptable”. “We have a …

Tunisian Caretaker president Moncef Marzouki met on Monday evening in New York with US president Barack Obama who expressed his country’s unconditional commitment to support Tunisia in speeding up the completion of the transitional process so that it might be a model in the region.

France’s Interior Minister Manuel Valls expressed some reservations about Bulgaria and Romania’s accession in the Schengen area as of January 1, 2014.

French President Francois Hollande urged Iran Tuesday to make “concrete gestures” on its disputed nuclear program as he met Tehran’s new leader. “France expects Iran to make concrete gestures to show that it renounces its military nuclear program, even

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed on Wednesday he will meet his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz Sharif on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, after raised tensions between the neighbours. “During my visit to New York, I… look forward to bilateral meetings with the leaders of some of our neighbouring …

Three Kenya Defence Force (KDF) soldiers have succumbed to injuries following the rescue mission at the Westgate mall. According to KDF Information Operations Officer Cyrus Oguna, the three were among 11 soldiers wounded when they confronted