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Six suspected terrorists killed in a New Year's Eve police raid near Jakarta had planned to carry out a string of attacks targeting the US embassy, a church and Buddhist temples, police said Friday.

• 04 января 2014, 11:05

Gunmen stormed a prison in southwestern Mexico on Friday in an attack that left five of the assailants and four inmates dead, officials said.

• 04 января 2014, 10:27

Stuttering peace talks to end Thailand's bloody southern rebellion are under threat from political turmoil in Bangkok, observers say, as the conflict enters its second decade with no end in sight.

• 03 января 2014, 11:05

Russia beefed up security and mourned its dead on Tuesday as the toll from jarring successive-day suicide strikes in the run-up to the Sochi Winter Olympic Games rose to 33.

• 31 декабря 2013, 14:39

Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed Monday to stay within international law in the hunt for the perpetrators of two bomb attacks in the city of Volgograd, the United Nations said.

• 31 декабря 2013, 11:45

Boko Haram's leader said in a video obtained by AFP on Thursday that the group was behind a daring raid on military installations in the north Nigerian city of Maiduguri earlier this month.

• 12 декабря 2013, 12:38

The four attackers responsible for killing at least 67 people at a Kenyan shopping mall may have escaped due to lax security.

• 11 декабря 2013, 12:32

A teenager died after being attacked by a shark in Australia on Saturday, police said, one week after a surfer was fatally mauled in the nation's west.

• 30 ноября 2013, 20:52

A security guard of the Belarus Embassy in Kazakhstan has been attacked in Almaty.

• 05 ноября 2013, 14:13

Israel has reportedly carried out an air strike on a Syrian military installation to stop a shipment to Hezbollah, as inspectors said Syria's entire declared stock of chemical weapons has been placed under seal.

• 01 ноября 2013, 12:54

The US vowed to help Iraq combat terror groups as mounting attacks claimed more lives ahead of talks between Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and President Barack Obama.

• 01 ноября 2013, 10:00

Unidentified assailants armed with guns and Molotov cocktails attacked power stations in a violence-torn western Mexican state Sunday.

• 28 октября 2013, 10:53

Syria is set to hand over a detailed plan for destroying its chemical arsenal Thursday, the international watchdog says, as a rebel attack near Damascus triggered power outages across the country.

• 24 октября 2013, 17:23

Rebels fired on a UN helicopter Friday in a new incident highlighting tinderbox tensions in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.

• 13 октября 2013, 11:28

Foreign special forces in an attack helicopter staged a nighttime raid on a key base of Somalia's Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab.

• 06 октября 2013, 13:07

Schools attacks in northern Nigeria have grown more frequent and deadly this year, forcing thousands to abandon their education, with most of the violence blamed on Boko Haram Islamists.

• 04 октября 2013, 13:13

Twelve car bombs, mainly targeting Shiite-majority areas in and around Baghdad, killed at least 47 people Monday, while at least three died in a blast against Sunni worshippers.

• 01 октября 2013, 17:19

The death toll from a car bomb attack in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar rose to 42 on Monday.

• 30 сентября 2013, 11:28

The company should be held liable for sending people without bulletproof vests, firearms and armored vehicle to transport the money: expert.

• 27 сентября 2013, 20:26

The British woman dubbed the "White Widow" was at the centre of a worldwide hunt on Friday after Interpol issued an international notice for her arrest in the wake of the Kenya shopping mall attack.

• 27 сентября 2013, 18:34