A former Blackwater security contractor has been convicted by a court in the United States of murder at his third trial in the 2007 shooting of unarmed civilians in Iraq, an incident that drew

London's Gatwick Airport, the second-busiest in the UK, has shut down while officials urgently investigated reports that two drones were flying above the airfield. The airport suspended all flights late on Wednesday, causing severe

The United States has started withdrawing its troops from Syria, the White House said on Wednesday, after President Donald Trump declared that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also know as

DUBAI: A hard-won truce in the battleground Yemeni city of Hodeidah will collapse if militia violations persist and the UN does not intervene, the Saudi-led coalition said on Wednesday. UN observers are due to

Illinois's attorney general has issued a blistering report about clergy sexual abuse, saying that Catholic dioceses in the US state has not released the names of at least 500 clergy accused of sexually abusing children.

President Donald Trump has announced the withdrawal of all 2,000 US troops from Syria as he abruptly declared victory over ISIL in the country, in a move that contradicted his own experts' assessments and sparked

The chief justice of Brazil's Supreme Court late on Wednesday knocked down a colleague's ruling that would have freed from jail former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, but said the full court will

Hackers spent years eavesdropping on the diplomatic communications of European Union officials, an operation disrupted only after researchers discovered hundreds of intercepted documents on the internet. The documents were discovered a few months ago

The United States has said it approved a sale of $3.5bn in missiles to Turkey amid tensions between the NATO allies over Ankara's plans to buy them from Russia. The State Department on Wednesday said it

JEDDAH: Anger has erupted in Iran’s restive Khuzestan province after security forces arrested dozens of striking steel workers. More than 4,000 employees at the National Steel Industrial Group in Ahvaz stopped work on Nov.