The huge al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria for years has posed an intractable problem — a destitute and increasingly dangerous detention site where ISIS ideology lives on.

Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has dissolved the lower house of Parliament, paving the way for a Feb. 8 snap election. The move Friday is an attempt to capitalize on her popularity to

Officials said there were 11 arrest orders for "El Botox" for extortion and homicide. He was accused of attacking authorities with explosives.

Activists said Friday the death toll from a crackdown over Iran’s nationwide protests reached at least 5,002 people killed, with many more still feared dead. The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency offered the toll.

Three people were killed and another injured after a shooting Thursday in a town in Australia’s New South Wales, an attack domestic media is reporting isn’t suspected to be terrorism related.

A prominent activist who organized Hong Kong’s decades-old vigil commemorating the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown has defended their demand for ending "one-party rule” in court. Chow

Officials say that France’s Navy, working with intelligence provided by the United Kingdom, intercepted an oil tanker in the Mediterranean Sea that traveled from Russia, in a mission targeting the sanctioned Russian shadow fleet.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Thursday (January 22) he "obviously" had concerns about Russian President Vladimir Putin being on U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed "Board of Peace." What is Trump's 'Board of Peace' and how might it interact with UN?