Indonesians voted Wednesday in the tightest and most divisive presidential election since the downfall of dictator Suharto, pitting Jakarta governor Joko Widodo...

At least 23 people were killed across Gaza, Palestinian officials said on Wednesday, by a bombardment Israel said may be just...

A police officer in the Central Highlands province of Dak Lak has been arrested for allegedly beating a suspected thief to...

An Israeli judge on Sunday released from jail and placed under house arrest a 15-year-old American of Palestinian descent...

Sixteen years after the overthrow of the dictator Suharto, Indonesia is turning back toward that regime as his former son...

The body of an abducted Palestinian youth was found in Jerusalem on Wednesday, raising suspicions he had been killed by Israelis...

Kim Young-nam was a teenager living on the coast of South Korea when he disappeared in 1978, only to turn up in North...

Japan was to decide on Thursday on easing some sanctions on North Korea in return for its reopening of a probe into...

Tens of thousands of mourners joined in an outpouring of national grief on Tuesday at the burial of three Israeli teenagers...

Israeli aircraft bombed dozens of sites in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, the military said, and troops opened fire and killed a...

A court in central Vietnam Friday handed down death sentences to two men for beating to death five people they held...

The sudden emergence of an ex-general as a genuine contender has turned Indonesia's presidential election into a clash between...

West African leaders on Saturday agreed to work together to wage "total war" on Boko Haram saying the Nigerian Islamist group...

Nigeria's hunt for more than 200 abducted schoolgirls is not all that it seems. In public, an international operation is gathering...

Nigeria's president has rejected an offer from Islamist rebel group Boko Haram to exchange schoolgirls it abducted for imprisoned militants, but...