US state department Archive

Amid manhunt by France and Belgium police for the 26-year-old Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam the US State Department has issued a Worldwide Terror Alert for its citizens just three days ahead of the Thanksgiving. …

Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych and opposition leaders have signed a deal leading to an early presidential poll before the end of the year. President Yanukovych has now staked himself on this The election is …

Direct talks aimed at ending weeks of violence in South Sudan are due to begin. They would come a day after delegations from the warring parties met mediators in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. Ethiopia’s …

A senior figure in the Somali militant group al-Shabab has told the BBC it ...

US and Afghan forces have fought off an attack by Taliban insurgents on the US consulate in the western city of Herat. Several police and civilians were reportedly wounded in the attack Two Afghan …

With the Australian Department of Immigration and Citizenship already under siege over the treatment of refugees in detention camps, deaths in custody, and the abandonment of the principals of the UN Convention on refugees in …

China has accused the US of “prejudice” for urging Beijing to provide a full account of the crackdown on pro-democracy activists after the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989. China has long accused the US of …