The Syrian army on Wednesday captured the town of Deir Hafer, a major stronghold for the Islamic State (IS) group in northern Syria. ....

Security forces, in an ongoing raid that began early on Wednesday, have cordoned off two houses in Bangladesh's Moulvibazar district where at least 10 suspected militants were believed to be holed up, Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal said. ....

At least 47 militants were killed as government forces stormed Taliban hideouts in Farah province on Wednesday, an army official said. ....

An earthquake measuring 6.7 on the Richter scale hit Russias Kamchatka peninsula on Wednesday, the local seismological station said. A tsunami alert was also issued. ....

Warplanes targeted maintenance workers of the Euphrates Dam in Syria's Raqqa province, a monitor group has said. ....

Russia and Iran signed on Tuesday a string of cooperation agreements in various fields including the energy sector as President Vladimir Putin hosted his Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani for his official visit to Moscow. ....

US President Donald Trump telephoned Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday to congratulate him on the Bharatiya Janata Party's victory in Uttar Pradesh and other states, according to the White House. ....

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order rolling back Obama-era rules aimed at tackling global warming. ....

A French court on Tuesday handed "Carlos the Jackal", once one of the worlds most wanted criminals, life imprisonment for a 1974 grenade attack on a Paris shop that killed two people. ....

Malaysian Health Minister S. Subramaniam on Tuesday confirmed that the body of Kim Jong-nam, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un's half-brother who was assassinated here last month, is still in Kuala Lumpur, the media reported. ....