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They will now face a travel ban, freeze on their assets for their role in fighting and recruiting others to join IS

US embassy says its diplomats were instructed not to go outside overnight

The attack at about 9am marked the first US air strike to defend the city

Russia thrust itself back into play by dispatching troops and fighter jets to Syria, sparking fears in the West

The meeting comes a day after Obama clashed with President Vladimir Putin over the crisis in Syria

Security forces ready to investigate how Taliban managed to seize a major urban centre for the first time in 14 years

China and Iran have close diplomatic, economic, trade and energy ties

Meadow Walker's suit claims Porsche AG knew the car model had a history of instability and control issues

Obama says peace operations remain one of the world's most important tools to address armed conflict

China is one of the 50 countries who pledged some 40,000 troops and police for UN peacekeeping

Russian president says it's an enormous mistake to not cooperate with Syrian group fighting terrorists face-to-face

Under certain circumstances, liquid water has been found on Mars, NASA official addresses press conference

A team says it found evidence in the lines of 'hydrated salt minerals, which require water for their creation

US president describes Assad as a tyrant and as the chief culprit behind the four-year civil war

Hundreds of sanitisers have been sent to Facebook CEO, each with the name of a 2002 Gujrat riots' victim written...

Says fortunate again to meet the incredible and inspirational Malala

More than four million people have been driven from the homes in the four-year war in Syria

Former goalkeeper for the national team was not impressed by fans using national jersey as protest regalia

A local resident says 12 women, eight children and seven men died in the air strike

State news agency says men belonged to Islamic State cell that was planning to carry out "an imminent terrorist act"

Apple has also unveiled new lease and finance terms for US customers

Armed with rocket-propelled grenades, Taliban militants overwhelmed security guards at the jail in Kunduz city centre

Some lawmakers in Merkel's conservative bloc have criticised the gamble she has taken as she nears a decade in power

Religious hardliners and conservative tribal leaders say such pageants are unIslamic and threaten public morality

The most intense fighting since the 1990s has engulfed Turkey's mainly Kurdish southeastern region since July

Investigators have previously said they believe it was most probably a revenge attack by a people-smuggling gang

The government is also mulling issuing permits only to climbers who first scale another mountain above 6,500 metres

Iran says it lost at least 169 pilgrims when two large groups of pilgrims converged on at a crossroads in Mina

Police say man had gotten the idea to use a spy camera, which he had purchase online from some popular websites

A recent poll found Palestinians are increasingly exasperated with Abbas leadership and Israel's right-wing government

Reports suggest local mosque was crowded and people had to offer prayers outside prompting Ganpati to give space

Regional magistrate accepts court application and remands the case until October 15

Deputy FM says Russia wants talks to happen 'as quickly as possible'

PM Shinzo Abe made no reference to whether Japan would ease its own strict conditions for accepting refugees.

Venezuela is trying to persuade oil producers to cut production to boost oil prices which plunged about 60 percent

Police chief says main motive for this crime was Thai authorities destroying human trafficking network

Opponents of secession say result was clear vote against independence and some called on regional president to resign

Doctor at Suanprung Hospital says the man was treated for two weeks before he went home because he felt better

Scuffle broke out after argument between a youth and an elderly resident

The industrial profit figures exclude firms in China's service sector, which analysts say will increase in importance

President Abdulla Yameen was returning from Saudi Arabia after performing Hajj

UN shows some 300 million people over the age of 65 cannot easily access long-term care when needed

Commission has been established after ABC revealed live animals were used to train country's most successful dogs

Facebook CEO says his picture is in support of Indian government's effort to connect rural communities to internet

Not one Japanese company applied for a subsidy programme aimed at promoting more women to senior jobs

Primary school causes outrage by making non-pork eaters wear red discs around their necks in canteen

In video, one of the Turks reads statement in Arabic, saying captors had treated them humanely

A total of 169 Iranians are now known to have died in Thursday's stampede in Mina

Taliban spokesman says insurgent fighters seized hospital in a district in south of the city

Police says protesters slept overnight at mosque and threw petrol bombs at security forces during the clashes