Avaneesh Pandey

Last year, the US Congress was wrestling with the question of aiding rebel groups like ISIS against Syrian President Bashar Assad.

David Haines, who worked as a security expert with a number of aid agencies, was abducted in Syria in early 2013.

At least 70 people were killed overnight when Boko Haram seized control of the key northeastern town of Bama in Borno State.

NATO had, on Monday, announced plans to form a "very high readiness force" to respond to Russian aggression in Ukraine.

The FDA has skipped a step and waived pre-clinical trials, clearing the way for the vaccine to be tested on humans.

The Occupy Central group is protesting China's latest decision to screen candidates for the next major elections in the city in 2017.

Previous raids by government forces have led to the arrests of hundreds of police officers, about half of whom have since been released.

The new technique is not only more accurate, the scientists claim, it can also assess whether a patient is responding to treatment.

Three people were killed and nearly 500 were wounded Sunday when protesters attempted to storm the prime minister’s official residence.

Germany says it will arm 4,000 Kurdish soldiers in the fight against the Islamic State.

The census has been criticized by activists in strife-torn Myanmar over inclusion of questions related to ethnicity and religion.

The attack took place in Jalalabad, which is located near the border with Pakistan,is one of the country’s most troubled regions.

The new U.S. sanctions come amid reports of Iran resisting efforts to allow IAEA inspectors to access its nuclear enrichment facilities.

Russia has denied Ukraine's claims and said that it's not involved in “Ukraine hostilities.”

Infighting between Islamist militias, which control parts of Libya, has raised fears of the violence spilling into neighboring countries.

Al-Qaeda’s Syrian affiliate, the al-Nusra Front, along with the Islamist group Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiya, were involved in the offensive.

While the United States has previously accused Bashar Assad of using banned chemical weapons, this is the first time the U.N. has done so.

Since the beginning of August, UNICEF has dispatched 33 shipments, totaling nearly 1,000 tons of emergency aid, most of it to Iraq.

A senior Indian army official said that cross-border firing by Pakistan in the last 45 days was "possibly the heaviest" since the 1971 war.

Three people were killed by Boko Haram in the border towns of Ashigashya and Kerawa, as almost 500 Nigerian soldiers fled to Cameroon.

A Russian defense ministry official said that the soldiers had most likely crossed the border "by accident."

Tuesday's attack follows a suicide-bomb explosion in a Shiite mosque Monday, which killed 12 people and injured 26 others.

The Israeli military reportedly acknowledged that it had targeted sites linked to Hamas on Tuesday.

Russia’s announcement comes just a day after pro-Moscow rebels in eastern Ukraine paraded dozens of captured Ukrainian soldiers.

Scientists studied an area covering over 35,000 square miles and discovered 570 methane vents at depths ranging from 50 meters to 1,700 meters.

A group called "Lizard Squad" claimed responsibility for the attack and said that it was targeting the company for its corporate greed.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Egypt will invite Palestinian and Israeli delegations to Cairo to restart truce talks.

The WHO said that its efforts to contain the ongoing outbreak have been hindered due to the under-reporting of cases in affected nations.

The settlement is valued at $1.2 billion after deducting the current estimated value of the low-quality securities.