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Libya's oil facilities are likely to suffer further attacks unless a United Nations-backed unity government is approved, the head of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) told Reuters in an interview on Monday. Mustafa Sanalla also said suspected Islamic State militants...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday he and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov, had reached a provisional agreement on terms of a cessation of hostilities in Syria and the sides were closer to a ceasefire than...

The United States rejected a North Korean proposal to discuss a peace treaty to formally end the Korean War because it did not address denuclearization on the peninsula, the State Department said on Sunday. State Department spokesman John Kirby made...

BEVERLY HILLS, February 21, (THEWILL) – Former Governor Jeb Bush has suspended his campaign, ending a quest for the White House, after disappointing finishes in the first three contests of the 2016 election cycle. Jeb Bush dropped out of the...

SAN FRANCISCO, February 20, (THEWILL) –  An Egyptian court has sentenced a four-year-old boy, Ahmed Mansour Karni, to life in prison for committing four murders, attempting another eight, vandalising property and threatening police officers - all before the age...

U.S. warplanes carried out air strikes against Islamic State-linked militants in western Libya on Friday, killing as many as 40 people in an operation targeting a suspect linked to two deadly attacks last year in neighboring Tunisia. It was the...

Niger will hold an election on Sunday in which President Mahamadou Issoufou is running for a new term with a vow to crush an Islamist militant threat, but the opposition accuses him of another type of crackdown - against...

Kosovo opposition lawmakers released tear gas in parliament on Friday, forcing the abandonment of this year's first legislative session as part of a long-running protest against a deal to grant the country's ethnic Serb minority more power. They have kept...

The United States has added Yemen, Somalia and Libya as "countries of concern" under its visa waiver program, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said on Thursday, in a move that will make U.S. visa procedures more stringent for...

President Barack Obama will pay a historic visit to Cuba in the coming weeks, senior Obama administration officials said, becoming the first president to set foot on the island in nearly seven decades. The brief visit in mid-March will mark...