An attack on a military hospital in Afghanistan has killed more than 30 people, the country's Defence Ministry has said.

Government troops are now in "full control" of eastern Mosul, according to Iraq's military, after routing Islamic State militants from that part of the city.

The top Senate Republican says that Congress will investigate a CIA assessment that Russia interfered in the November election on behalf of Donald Trump, an intelligence conclusion that the incoming commander in chief has called "ridiculous".

The top US military officer has told a Senate committee he believes Russia bombed the humanitarian aid convoy in Syria on Monday, calling it an "unacceptable atrocity".

At least 32 people were killed and 90 wounded in two bomb explosions in the Syrian city of Homs, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.

Six French jet fighters targeted and destroyed an Islamic State (IS) training camp in eastern Syria, president Francois Hollande said yesterday, making good on a promise to go after the group he said is planning attacks against several countries, including France.

Government cutbacks make it unlikely the Defence Forces and the gardaí could prevent an outbreak of foot- and-mouth, swine flu, or avian flu spreading from the North into the Republic, according to a former senior army officer.

IT IS, in many respects, a frightening thought that the so-called border with the North no longer exists. 

Iraqi officials say they believe government forces have killed the last remaining Saddam Hussein henchman on the run in Iraq.

Prosecutors called former Bosnian Serb political leader Radovan Karadzic a liar in closing remarks at his genocide trial, saying his denials of responsibility for atrocities while he was in charge lack credibility.

The US and and five Arab countries have launched air strikes against Islamic State group targets in Syria for the first time, using fighter jets, bombers and Tomahawk cruise missiles fired from ships in the region.

The militant Islamic State group has released a video warning the US that fighters await in Iraq if Barack Obama sends troops there.

Fiji has sent mixed messages on whether its 45 United Nations peacekeepers that are being held captive by Syrian insurgents will be freed soon.

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Russia has accused the West of triggering the Ukrainian crisis with its “megalomania”, as fighting continued in Ukraine’s east between pro-Russia insurgents and government forces two days before a presidential election.

Thailand’s army chief has just announced a military takeover of the government, saying the coup is necessary to restore stability and order after six months of political deadlock and turmoil.

Ukraine has taken its first military action against a pro-Russian uprising in the east as government forces repelled about 30 gunmen at an airport, beginning what the president called an “anti-terrorist operation” to restore authority in the region.

Former Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf has escaped unharmed after a bomb attack in the capital Islamabad, police said.

From 1700 to the end of the First World War, almost 2m Irish men died fighting for British kings and queens, according to a new RTÉ documentary.

Malaysian authorities have defended their handling of the hunt for the missing Boeing 777 – even as they acknowledged they are unsure which direction the plane was travelling in when it disappeared.

Pakistan’s army chief, who is often referred to as the country’s most powerful person, says he will retire on November 29, ending speculation that he would try to stay on past the end of his tenure.

Egyptian security forces backed by armoured fighting vehicles and helicopters have stormed a town known to be an Islamist stronghold outside Cairo near the Great Pyramids, coming under barrages of fire from gunmen on rooftops.

Taliban militants have staged a suicide car bombing and a gunfight with Afghan security forces outside the American consulate in the western city of Herat.

A set of buttons found in Michael Collins’s pocket the day he died at Béal na Bláth have sold at auction for more than €5,000.

Egypt’s military chief has tried to justify his decision to remove Mohammed Morsi from office, saying the Islamist leader had violated his popular mandate.

Information collected by once-secret US surveillance programmes disrupted dozens of terrorist attacks, the director of the National Security Agency told Congress.

A seamstress buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued yesterday — a miraculous moment set against a scene of horror, where the death toll shot past 1,000.

A seamstress buried in the wreckage of a collapsed garment factory building for 17 days was rescued today, a miraculous moment set against a scene of horror, where the death toll shot past 1,000.

The Obama administration is rethinking its opposition to arming the rebels who have been locked in a civil war with the Syrian regime for more than two years, defence secretary Chuck Hagel said last night, becoming the first top US official to publicly acknowledge the reassessment.

Police ordered a Bangladesh garment building with deep cracks visible in the walls evacuated the day before its deadly collapse, but the factories flouted the order, officials say.

America's secretary of state John Kerry has arrived in South Korea, as the region braces itself for a planned missile test by North Korea.

Eight officers allegedly involved in the death of a man who was bound and then dragged by a police vehicle have been suspended and the local police commander has been removed from his post, South Africa’s police chief has announced.

The White House has confirmed it will go ahead with the nomination of General John Allen to become commander of Nato forces in Europe.

The top US commander in Afghanistan has been cleared of sending inappropriate emails to a woman linked to the sex scandal that forced David Petraeus to quit as CIA director.

The French Defence Ministry said the captors of a military agent killed him during a French commando raid in Somalia.

There is an extraordinary contrast in the state papers just released between the paucity of investigative material in relation the various gubus (grotesque, unbelievable, bizarre, unprecedented events) of 1982 and the wealth of interesting material that the Department of Justice has released dealing with events in the 1930s and 1940s.

Syrian rebels are closely monitoring the regime’s chemical weapons sites but do not have the means to seize and secure them, their newly elected military commander has told the Associated Press.

An Afghan provincial police chief and an official in charge of women’s affairs were killed in separate attacks today – the latest victims of a campaign of targeted killings against government officials.

The US Senate has approved President Barack Obama’s choice to lead US and coalition forces in Afghanistan.

Two Taliban suicide bombers struck near a US base in Kabul early today, killing two Afghan guards in the heart of an area filled with foreign forces and embassies.

Former CIA director David Petraeus was sneaked into the Capitol today, away from the media, to face lawmakers’ questions about the attack on the US Consulate in Libya – just one week after he resigned over an extramarital affair.