Syria’s army has broken Isil's two-year siege on an airbase in eastern Aleppo, marking the first major success for a military campaign backed by Russia and Iran. State television said on

Germany is to start deporting Syrian refugees after reinstating EU rules under which they must claim asylum in the first member state they enter. But there was fresh discord in Chancellor

Barack Obama joined Facebook and the social media-savvy US President said he wanted his account to be a place where he could have "real conversations" with people as he made

Two persons, including a Vishwa Hindu Parishad activist, were killed as clashes took place in Madikeri town of Karnataka over celebrations of the birth anniversary of Tipu Sultan, Hindustan Times

President Barack Obama rejected the Keystone XL oil pipeline on Friday, in a move that infuriated conservatives but will bolster his legacy on environmental issues ahead of next month's climate

The world today is indisputably radical Islam, the American-Israeli New York Times best-selling author and former US and Israel political adviser, Joel Rosenberg, said at the Jerusalem Leadership Summit in

A dissident Afghan Taliban group has announced its own leader, revealing the fractures in the militant group that emerged since the death of its founder Mullah Omar. Under a cold grey

Reserve Bank of India governor Raghuram Rajan reiterated that India’s democracy is its greatest strength and it would be “crazy to lose” its biggest advantage while emphasising upon the “need

The Government must reopen a review which concluded the Home Office did not "cover up" child sex abuse allegations in Westminster, an MP has said, as he named a former

David Cameron should complete the "mission" he started in Libya to prevent the country becoming another Islamist-dominated state like Syria, Egypt's President will demand when he visits Downing Street on