Russia’s Foreign Ministry hit back at NATO on Wednesday, calling the military alliance "useless", after it blamed Moscow for provocative activities near the bloc’s borders.

US President Donald Trump told NATO allies in a closed-door meeting on Thursday that governments needed to raise spending to 2 percent of economic output by January next year or the United States would go its own way, two people familiar with the discussions told Reuters.

Two notorious terrorist commanders were killed in Hama and Idlib as tensions and clashes among militants have intensified in Northern Syria.

Commanders of the terrorist groups in Northern Syria are showing clear signs of concerns over a growing number of militants' who are demanding endorsement of peace with the Damascus government.

The Irish Senate gave its support on Wednesday to a legislation prohibiting the import or sale of goods and services produced in occupied territories around the world, including Israeli settlements considered illegal under international law.

British counter-terrorism police chief Neil Basu admitted that detectives have thus far failed to confirm whether the toxic agent the couple from Amesbury was allegedly exposed to in late June was the same as the one that was ostensibly used against former Russian intelligence agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia in March.

Former CIA Director John Brennan on Wednesday blasted US President Donald Trump after he hammered allies about their contributions to NATO at the group's annual summit.

A German court ruled Thursday that deposed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont may be extradited to Spain, but only for alleged corruption and not on the more serious charge of rebellion.

The United States will consider requests from some countries to be exempted from sanctions it will put in effect in November to prevent Iran from exporting oil, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said.

Although maintaining a façade of opposition to terrorists, European authorities support terror groups in action and nourish vipers, such as MKO, in their bosoms, which proves their double standard that will eventually affect Europe's security.

Former president of Pakistan and Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari and his sister Faryal Talpur have been barred from flying abroad on the orders of Supreme Court of Pakistan.

South Korea has suspended its summertime civil defense drills aimed at preparing against a North Korean attack to keep alive a positive atmosphere for nuclear diplomacy with the North.

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said on Sunday that Washington believes that progress has been made in denuclearization talks with North Korea, but it is too early to ease sanctions against Pyongyang so far.

Turkey announced the dismissal of another 18,632 people from the civil service over suspected links to the movement of Islamic cleric Fethullah Gulen, referred to as the Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) by Ankara and accused of being behind the attempted coup.

Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas granted Palestinian citizenship to Swedish activist Benjamin Ladraa, who has been walking from Sweden to Palestine to raise awareness on human rights violations.

Donald Trump faces a frosty reception when he arrives in the UK later this week, but people still believe Theresa May is right to engage with him in pursuit of a trade deal, a new poll has revealed.

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator, Jamie McGoldrick; the Head of West Bank Operations for UNRWA, Scott Anderson; and the Head of the UN Office for the High Commissioner for Human Rights, James Heenan, expressed serious concern over Israeli demolitions and related events in vulnerable Palestinian communities in the central West Bank.

A French policeman who shot dead a young black man in western France earlier this week, sparking four nights of rioting, has been charged with manslaughter, his lawyer said as fresh clashes erupted between youths and police early Saturday.

South Korea will not lift any Iranian crude and condensate in July, halting all shipments for the first time in six years amid US pressure to cut all imports of Iranian oil from November, three sources familiar with the matter said.

The participants in JCPOA commission meeting emphasized continuation of implementation of international projects proposed in the nuclear deal, including Iran and Russia plan to convert the Fordow facility and modernization of the Arak heavy water reactor.

Moscow and Beijing are interested in preserving and fully implementing the 2015 nuclear deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Friday.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo left Washington Thursday bound for Pyongyang and his latest round of talks with Kim Jong Un on North Korea's nuclear arsenal.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi said the recent reports on the role of Iranian nationals in an alleged plot to bomb an MKO gathering in Paris are part of a scenario to deal a blow to Iran-Europe relations "at this important and sensitive juncture".

The US Administration is hammering out a bill that stipulates that Washington may actually abandon fundamental World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, according to the news website Axios, which said it had obtained the draft of the bill.

Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar announced the liberation of the city of Derna from the al-Qaeda-linked militants.

UK Defense Minister Gavin Williamson will request billions of pounds of additional funding from Prime Minister Theresa May at a meeting next week.

Senior officials from transport agencies of North and South Korea on Thursday began talks on linking the two countries’ motor roads to make it possible to travel from Pyongyang to Seoul by car.

Fifteen people died and dozens were injured when fire swept through a market in the Kenyan capital Nairobi in the early hours of Thursday, an official said.

US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis reassured South Korea on Thursday that the United States will maintain its current number of troops on the Korean Peninsula.

The United States must be held accountable for the consequences of its reckless and wrongful act of withdrawing from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) reached between Iran and G5+1 (US, UK, France, Russia, China plus Germany) in 2015.

China is committed to peace and won't cause "chaos" in the world, but cannot give up even an inch of territory that the country's ancestors have left behind, Chinese President Xi Jinping told US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Wednesday.

The European Union imposed sanctions on military officials in Myanmar on Monday over their role in the systematic human rights violations against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine state where a brutal military campaign last year forced nearly 700,000 to flee to Bangladesh.

At least 86 people have been killed in clashes over the past days between herdsmen and farmers in central Nigeria, prompting local officials to impose a curfew to contain the fresh wave of communal violence.

Senior Commander of Turkey-Backed Militants Assassinated by Unknown Raiders in Northern Syria

The UN’s top expert on extreme poverty warned that contemptible and cruel US policies towards the poor were disenfranchising millions, posing a threat to democracy in the country.

Turkey will take delivery of F-35 fighter jets in Texas on Thursday while the jets will arrive in the country in 2020, Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday.

South Korean President Moon Jae-in began his state visit to Russia on Thursday.

US President Donald Trump said North Korea had returned on Wednesday (June 20) the remains of 200 US troops missing from the Korean War, although there was no official confirmation of the move from military authorities.

Taliban fighters killed 30 security forces in an ambush on two checkpoints in the Western province of Badghis on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump is looking to impose a 10 percent tariff on another $200 billion-worth of Chinese goods, after Beijing imposed reciprocal tariffs on US imports, as part of an expanding trade war with Washington.

The United Nations announced that nearly 5,000 families have been displaced in Yemen’s Western province of Hudaydah, whose capital port city has been under unprecedented attacks by a Saudi-led military coalition and militia loyal to the impoverished country’s former government

The Syrian army started the second phase of its massive assault against terrorists in Sweida desert after sending a new military convoy to the Eastern regions of the province.

Seoul proposed Pyongyang to move North Korean long-range artillery away from the border between the two states in order to reduce tensions between them, according to South Korean media.

South Korea and the United States are expected to announce the suspension of large-scale military exercises this week, local media reported citing a government source.

The patience of the Zionist regime from causing Palestinian fire kites come to a head and the regime in the newest action towards those kites into the air chambers, firing two missiles.

European Union countries unanimously supported a plan to impose US trade duties on goods worth 2.8 billion euros in response to US trade tariffs against Europe on imports of steel and aluminum

London still refuses to cooperate with Moscow in investigating Russian businessman Nikolai Glushkov’s murder and the alleged poisoning of former Russian military intelligence (GRU) Colonel Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in the UK told the Russian media.

China's government renewed its threat Thursday to scrap deals with Washington aimed at defusing a sprawling trade dispute as the White House prepared to release a list of Chinese goods targeted for tariff hikes.

The US has a dubious record of living up to its promises, and North Korea must be ever vigilant while dealing with it, a Chinese analyst said, citing America’s loose conduct over the Iran nuclear deal and elsewhere.

Filippo Grandi, the UN high commissioner for refugees, on Wednesday slammed Italy and Malta after both countries turned away a ship carrying hundreds of migrants.

The UK Parliament on Wednesday rejected a proposal that would have forced the government to negotiate to remain in the European Economic Area and thus continue to participate in the EU single market during Brexit talks.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders is planning to leave the White House at the end of the year, according to a report.

A Spokesperson with China’s Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council expressed opposition to any official contact between the US and Taiwan after the opening of a new compound for the New American Institute – a de facto American embassy – on the island.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the United States will not repeat mistake of lifting sanctions on North Korea before complete denuclearization.

South African police said two worshippers have been stabbed to death in an attack on a mosque in Malmesbury, Western Cape.

Research Center of Iran's Majlis (parliament) has published a documented 47-page report on human rights record of the United States on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump’s daughter, Ivanka, and his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, have reportedly earned at least 82 million dollars from outside income while serving as senior White House advisers.

An NGO, which has for decades been known as the de-facto embassy for the US in Taiwan, opened up a flashy new office in Taipei, while the move was condemned by Beijing as a blatant violation of its ‘One China’ policy.