Middle East
Obama, Putin agree need for UN-negotiated Syria talks, ceasefire
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Sunday on the need for UN-sponsored peace talks and a ceasefire ...Fight against Islamic State dominates as world leaders meet in Turkey
U.S. President Barack Obama and other world leaders arrived in Turkey on Sunday for a summit that has taken on new urgency ...Magnitude-7 earthquake strikes off southwest Japan
A powerful 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck off the southwestern coast of Japan early Saturday, the US Geological Survey (USGS) said, with Japanese authorities ...Paris attacks heighten pressure at Vienna Syria talks
Multiple "terror" attacks in Paris increased the pressure on some 20 countries and organisations meeting in Vienna on Saturday to overcome deep ...U2 cancel Paris concert after attacks
Irish rock band U2 canceled a Paris concert planned for Saturday following a series of attacks in the French capital which killed ...Israel detains 24 Hamas suspects in West Bank raids
Israel security forces arrested 24 suspected members of Palestinian Islamist group Hamas in overnight raids in the northern West Bank, the army ...Over 230,000 vaccinated in Iraq anti-cholera campaign
More than 230,000 people received a first dose of cholera vaccine in a massive campaign to combat an outbreak of the disease ...Suspected Russian strikes kill 23 Syria civilians
At least 23 Syrian civilians were killed Saturday in suspected Russian air strikes on a rebel-held town outside Damascus, a monitor said.Turkey detains 20 IS suspects in Antalya ahead of G20
Turkish police have detained 20 Islamic State suspects in the Mediterranean resort of Antalya, barely 10 days ahead of a summit being ...Russian air strikes kill 42 in Islamic State-held Raqqa, Syria
Air strikes by Russian warplanes on the Islamic State-held Syrian city of Raqqa killed 42 people earlier this week, including 27 civilians, ...




