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Australia arrests 5 teens for alleged terror plot
Hundreds of Australian police on Saturday arrested five teens planning an Islamic State-inspired terrorist attack next week at an event to mark ...Afghanistan suicide blast kills 33, injures more than 100
A suicide bomb blast in Afghanistan\'s eastern city of Jalalabad killed 33 people and injured more than 100 outside a bank where ...Saddam Hussein aide Ezzat al-Douri killed in Iraq
Ezzat Ibrahim al-Douri, a former aide to late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein and a leader of Iraq\'s Sunni insurgency, may have been ...Former president defiant as humanitarian toll mounts in Yemen war
Yemen\'s former president Ali Abdullah Saleh said on Friday he would not leave the country, dismissing reports in the Gulf Arab media ...Over 11,000 migrants land in Italy in six days
More than 11,000 migrants have been rescued from the Mediterranean and taken to Italy in the past six days, coastguards said, with ...UN chief calls for immediate ceasefire in Yemen
Intense bombing by a Saudi-led coalition hit Yemen Friday, three weeks into an air war against Iran-backed rebels as Al-Qaeda seized more ...Car bomb explodes outside US Consulate in Iraq
A car bombing at the entrance to the U.S. consulate in the capital of Iraq\'s Kurdistan region killed at least one person ...Al-Qaeda seizes airport in southeast Yemen
Al-Qaeda militants Thursday seized a provincial airport in southeast Yemen while tribal forces took over an oil terminal, as the war-wracked country ...UN peace envoy to Yemen resigns amid crisis
The United Nations envoy to Yemen, Jamal Benomar, resigned on Wednesday, according his official Facebook page, signaling the failure of U.N. efforts ...More than 220,000 dead in Syria conflict
The conflict in Syria has left more than 220,000 dead since it began four years ago with an uprising against President Bashar ...