Saudi Arabia swiftly ushered in a new king this week following the death of King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz, who passed away Friday after spending days in the hospital due to a lung infection.

Lower revenues from decreasing oil prices in the global market could affect Iraq's military campaign against the Islamic State.

More than one in eight Danish voters want a party more critical of immigration than the already-hardliner Danish People's Party (DF) as the Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamization of the West (PEGIDA) movement spreads to Denmark.

The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has marked "educated, professional" women for execution, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has disclosed.

The first doses of the experimental vaccine against Ebola virus by drug manufacturer GlaxoSmithKline have reportedly been shipped to the Liberian capital of Monrovia.

Egypt's President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi vowed on Thursday to make the country attractive to foreign investments despite the region's continuing political strife even as he defended the crackdown on political opponents.

To curb "violent and terrorist activities," China further tightened its grip on its Muslim-majority Xinjiang region last year, almost doubling the number of arrests authorities made the previous year amid the continuing ethnic tensions between Uighurs and Han Chinese, state-run China Daily has ...

Hamas has reportedly called on the Lebanese Hezbollah to unite with the group in fighting Israel.

Nigeria's national security adviser has called his own country's soldiers as "cowards" after they failed to protect civilians from Boko Haram extremists, denying suggestions that soldiers were not properly equipped to fight.

The two top government leaders in Yemen resigned this week following an ongoing stand-off with Shia Houthi rebels.

American and Cuban officials remained deeply at odds over the exodus of Cubans to the United States during the first day of high-level talks in Havana on Wednesday.