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Vice President Joseph Biden will visit Ankara on Wednesday to “reaffirm our commitment to work together with Turkey, our valued NATO Ally and partner, to confront the scourge of terrorism,” the White House said Sunday. Biden’s...

Amid growing international concern over indiscriminate bombing on Aleppo, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) chief has called for an urgent action to help more than 100,000 children who are currently “trapped in the horror” in the...

Seeking to shore up his stumbling campaign, Donald Trump has announced a major shake-up, bringing in two prominent conservative figures amid poor opinion poll numbers. Stephen Bannon, a former banker who runs the influential conservative outlet...

As millions of refugees face hardships and uncertain future, the United Nations has appealed to countries including the United States to keep reaching out to people in need because “we will all be stronger” by building...

The story of Yusra Mardini is extraordinary in many ways: the 18-year-old Syrian is a member of the Olympic Refugee team; she swam for life  and saved fellow refugees when their rickety boat faced rough Mediterranean...

What will define our time in times to come? Conflicts, terror, and the great exodus of people from the Middle East and Africa, and on the positive side medical advancements and the unprecedented connectivity of human...

Conflicts raging in the Middle East and Africa are not only inflicting death and destruction but also making lives miserable for survivors. Two United Nations agencies warned the UN Security Council this week said the multiple...

The United States has condemned in the strongest terms the vicious attack Saturday in Kabul that killed 80 Afghans and wounded more than 250 people. “We send our deepest condolences to the loved ones of those killed...

Donald Trump accepted Republican nomination for his presidential candidature with darker portrayals of American domestic and international scenes, casting rival Democratic Hillary Clinton as dangerous and presenting himself as law and order candidate.   Sounding nationalistic through...

President Barack Obama Thursday recalled Thomas Jefferson’s commitment to freedom of religion for, “the Jew and Gentile, the Christian and the Mahometan,” and praised Muslim Americans for enriching American lives with their work in wide-ranging fields....