International / National Security

By Nate Raymond BOSTON (Reuters) - A Chinese businessman was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison after admitting...

By Josiane Kouagheu YAOUNDE (Reuters) - A court in Cameroon has sentenced four people to death for their roles in...

By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - A lack of clarity on the Taliban's position on women in Afghanistan has...

By Camillus Eboh ABUJA (Reuters) - Lawyers for a Nigerian security agency that said its case files were stolen by...

By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian army troops entered Deraa al Balaad, the birthplace of the uprising against President...

YENAGOA, Nigeria (Reuters) -The detained leader of a separatist group in Nigeria has filed a lawsuit alleging that he was...

WARSAW (Reuters) - The EU is preparing for an influx of Afghans seeking asylum, whether or not people flee en...

By Tangi Salaün and Yiming Woo PARIS (Reuters) -The main suspect in a jihadist rampage that killed 130 people across...

By David Brunnstrom and Karen Lema WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Philippine Defense Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said on Wednesday there was a need...

By Humeyra Pamuk RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Reuters) -U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Wednesday said a provisional Afghan...

By Humeyra Pamuk RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany (Reuters) - Iran's president on Wednesday warned Western states against rebuking Tehran at...

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (Reuters) - Gunmen kidnapped 20 people in remote Sokoto State in northwest Nigeria, police said on Wednesday, in...

By Karen Lema and Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday accepted his party's nomination...

(Reuters) -Southeast Asian and Western countries have urged all sides in Myanmar to refrain from violence and allow in humanitarian...

LONDON (Reuters) - British foreign minister Dominic Raab criticised the arrest of members of a pro-democracy group by Hong Kong...

ANKARA/CAIRO (Reuters) - Turkey and Egypt agreed on Wednesday to continue talks to repair and eventually normalise strained ties after...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's foreign minister Wang Yi said the United States and its allies have more of a duty to...

TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Libyan interim Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibeh said on Wednesday he would visit Tunisia on Thursday and meet...

By Alexander Cornwell DUBAI (Reuters) - Since the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the world's top diplomats have been beating a...

KYIV (Reuters) - Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko's government said on Wednesday it could suspend an accord with the European Union...